Dominik Beck, Xiaobo Zhou, Tuan Pham, Bernardo Sabatini, Stephen T C Wong
{"title":"An Image Driven Systems Biology Approach for Neurodegenerative Disease Studies in the TSC-mTOR Pathway.","authors":"Dominik Beck, Xiaobo Zhou, Tuan Pham, Bernardo Sabatini, Stephen T C Wong","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906703","DOIUrl":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906703","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In this brief paper we present an overview of the TSC-mTOR pathway and its importance in neurodegenerative disease (ND). We illustrate the influence of ND on dendritic spine morphology. Then we discuss some details of functional gene networks (FGN) and use this information to propose an image driven systems biology approach for the construction of a FGN for ND. We conclude on its importance and the prospective outcome of our study.</p>","PeriodicalId":88894,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop. IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":" ","pages":"36-39"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3171509/pdf/nihms123300.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"30000756","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yi Shu, Dan Shu, Zhijuan Diao, Guanxin Shen, Peixuan Guo
{"title":"Fabrication of Polyvalent Therapeutic RNA Nanoparticles for Specific Delivery of siRNA, Ribozyme and Drugs to Targeted Cells for Cancer Therapy.","authors":"Yi Shu, Dan Shu, Zhijuan Diao, Guanxin Shen, Peixuan Guo","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906696","DOIUrl":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906696","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Bacteriophage phi29 DNA packaging motor is geared by a six-pRNA ring. pRNA is able to form a multimeric complex and patterned superstructures via the interaction of two reengineered interlocking loops. This unique feature makes it an ideal polyvalent vehicle for nanomachine fabrication, pathogen detection, and the delivery of therapeutics. This report describes novel approaches for the fabrication of polyvalent therapeutic pRNA nanoparticles, especially tetramers for specific siRNA delivery to cancer cells and for the silencing of targeted genes. RNA 3-D design, circular permutation, folding energy alteration, and nucleotide modification were applied to generate stable RNA nanoparticles with low toxicity. Animal trials demonstrated the high efficiency of the polyvalent RNA nanoparticles in the prevention and treatment of cancer. Using such protein-free nanoparticles as therapeutic reagents would allow for long-term administration to avoid the induction of antibody due to repeated treatment for chronic diseases.</p>","PeriodicalId":88894,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop. IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"2009 ","pages":"9-12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-05-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3019567/pdf/nihms182992.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29605110","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Approaches for stoichiometry and distance determination of nanometer bio-complex by dual-channel single molecule imaging.","authors":"Hui Zhang, Dan Shu, Mark Browne, Peixuan Guo","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906725","DOIUrl":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906725","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A dual-channel imaging system with single fluorophore sensitivity was assembled in this lab. Inclusion of an integrated laser combiner was introduced to facilitate simultaneous dual-channel imaging. The imaging system has been applied to study the structure, stoichiometry, distance and function of the phi29 DNA packaging motor. Approaches including single molecule photobleaching, single molecule FRET and binomial distribution quantification were carried out to clarify the stoichiometry and distance of pRNA on the biologically active packaging motor. The results were statistically analyzed to access the copy number of pRNA, and the distance constraint was used to verify the 3D structure of the computer model of phi29 DNA packaging motor.</p>","PeriodicalId":88894,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop. IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"2009 ","pages":"124-127"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2871710/pdf/nihms130790.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29002227","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lior Shamir, D Mark Eckley, John Delaney, Nikita Orlov, Ilya G Goldberg
{"title":"An Image Informatics Method for Automated Quantitative Analysis of Phenotype Visual Similarities.","authors":"Lior Shamir, D Mark Eckley, John Delaney, Nikita Orlov, Ilya G Goldberg","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906718","DOIUrl":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906718","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The post genomic era introduced the need to define single gene functions within biological pathways. A systems biology approach can be realized by automating image acquisition and phenotype classification. While machinery for automated data acquisition have been developing rapidly in the past years, the main bottleneck remains the effectiveness of the computer vision algorithms. Here we describe a fully automated process for finding phenotype similarities within a dataset acquired from an RNAi screen. The source code for the algorithms is available for free download.</p>","PeriodicalId":88894,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop. IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"2009 ","pages":"96-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2860574/pdf/nihms89512.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"28956970","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Grigore Pintilie, Junjie Zhang, Wah Chiu, David Gossard
{"title":"Identifying Components in 3D Density Maps of Protein Nanomachines by Multi-scale Segmentation.","authors":"Grigore Pintilie, Junjie Zhang, Wah Chiu, David Gossard","doi":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906705","DOIUrl":"10.1109/LISSA.2009.4906705","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Segmentation of density maps obtained using cryo-electron microscopy (cryo-EM) is a challenging task, and is typically accomplished by time-intensive interactive methods. The goal of segmentation is to identify the regions inside the density map that correspond to individual components. We present a multi-scale segmentation method for accomplishing this task that requires very little user interaction. The method uses the concept of scale space, which is created by convolution of the input density map with a Gaussian filter. The latter process smoothes the density map. The standard deviation of the Gaussian filter is varied, with smaller values corresponding to finer scales and larger values to coarser scales. Each of the maps at different scales is segmented using the watershed method, which is very efficient, completely automatic, and does not require the specification of seed points. Some detail is lost in the smoothing process. A sharpening process reintroduces detail into the segmentation at the coarsest scale by using the segmentations at the finer scales. We apply the method to simulated density maps, where the exact segmentation (or ground truth) is known, and rigorously evaluate the accuracy of the resulting segmentations.</p>","PeriodicalId":88894,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop. IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"2009 ","pages":"44-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2885738/pdf/nihms134981.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29059654","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yue Huang, Xiaobo Zhou, Benchun Miao, Marta Lipinski, Zheng Xia, Guangshu Hu, Alexei Degterev, Junying Yuan, Stephen T C Wong
{"title":"An Image Based System Biology Approach for Alzheimer's Disease Pathway Analysis.","authors":"Yue Huang, Xiaobo Zhou, Benchun Miao, Marta Lipinski, Zheng Xia, Guangshu Hu, Alexei Degterev, Junying Yuan, Stephen T C Wong","doi":"10.1109/lissa.2009.4906726","DOIUrl":"10.1109/lissa.2009.4906726","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We report multifactorial analysis of candidate mechanisms of Alzheimer's disease utilizing high content analysis, gene expression microarray, and linear regression model to integrate neuronal imaging data with hippocampal gene expression data. Our analysis led to the identification of several genes that may contribute to different image traits or phenotypes in the amyloid-beta (Aβ) injured neurons. Gene network and biological pathways analysis for those genes were further analyzed and led to several novel pathways that may contribute to amyloid plaque triggered neurite loss.</p>","PeriodicalId":88894,"journal":{"name":"IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop. IEEE/NIH Life Science Systems and Applications Workshop","volume":"2009 ","pages":"128-132"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2009-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2888520/pdf/nihms-130437.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"29086534","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}