Reconstructed signaling and regulatory networks identify potential drugs for SARS-CoV-2 infection
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Abstract
Several molecular datasets have been recently compiled to characterize the activity of SARS-CoV-2 within human cells. Here we extend computational methods to integrate several different types of sequence, functional and interaction data to reconstruct networks and pathways activated by the virus in host cells. We identify key proteins in these networks and further intersect them with genes differentially expressed at conditions that are known to impact viral activity. Several of the top ranked genes do not directly interact with virus proteins. We experimentally tested treatments for a number of the predicted targets. We show that blocking one of the predicted indirect targets significantly reduces viral loads in stem cell-derived alveolar epithelial type II cells (iAT2s).
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Experimental Models: Cell Lines Sentences Resources In addition to the bulk data we also used a single-cell RNA-seq data on Calu-3 cell line profiled at 0 (mock), 4, 8, 12 hours post SARS-CoV-2 infection. Calu-3suggested: KCLB Cat# 30055, RRID:CVCL_0609)Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) were obtained from the HIPPIE database [32], which contains more than 270000 annotated PPIs and for each provides a confidence score which was further used in our network analysis (see below). HIPPIEsuggested: (HIPPIE, RRID:SCR_014651)Potential treatments for top genes: In a similar fashion to Gordon et al. … SciScore for 10.1101/2020.06.01.127589: (What is this?)
Please note, not all rigor criteria are appropriate for all manuscripts.
Table 1: Rigor
NIH rigor criteria are not applicable to paper type.Table 2: Resources
Experimental Models: Cell Lines Sentences Resources In addition to the bulk data we also used a single-cell RNA-seq data on Calu-3 cell line profiled at 0 (mock), 4, 8, 12 hours post SARS-CoV-2 infection. Calu-3suggested: KCLB Cat# 30055, RRID:CVCL_0609)Software and Algorithms Sentences Resources Protein-protein interactions (PPIs) were obtained from the HIPPIE database [32], which contains more than 270000 annotated PPIs and for each provides a confidence score which was further used in our network analysis (see below). HIPPIEsuggested: (HIPPIE, RRID:SCR_014651)Potential treatments for top genes: In a similar fashion to Gordon et al. [3], we searched public resources (ChEMBL25 [44], IUPHAR/BPS, Pharos [45 Pharossuggested: (PHAROS, RRID:SCR_016258)5] and ZINC [46]), as well as literature in order to identify existing drugs and reagents that directly modulate the candidate genes derived from our network reconstruction and conditionspecific analyses. ZINCsuggested: (Zinc, RRID:SCR_008596)Software and data availability: The single-cell extension of the SDREM model (named scSDREM) is implemented in Python. Pythonsuggested: (IPython, RRID:SCR_001658)Results from OddPub: Thank you for sharing your code and data.
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