Malod-Dognin, N;
Pancaldi, V;
Valencia, A;
Przulj, N;
(2020)
Chromatin network markers of leukemia.
Bioinformatics
, 36
(Suppl. 1)
i455-i463.
10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa445.
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Abstract
MOTIVATION: The structure of chromatin impacts gene expression. Its alteration has been shown to coincide with the occurrence of cancer. A key challenge is in understanding the role of chromatin structure (CS) in cellular processes and its implications in diseases. RESULTS: We propose a comparative pipeline to analyze CSs and apply it to study chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL). We model the chromatin of the affected and control cells as networks and analyze the network topology by state-of-the-art methods. Our results show that CSs are a rich source of new biological and functional information about DNA elements and cells that can complement protein–protein and co-expression data. Importantly, we show the existence of structural markers of cancer-related DNA elements in the chromatin. Surprisingly, CLL driver genes are characterized by specific local wiring patterns not only in the CS network of CLL cells, but also of healthy cells. This allows us to successfully predict new CLL-related DNA elements. Importantly, this shows that we can identify cancer-related DNA elements in other cancer types by investigating the CS network of the healthy cell of origin, a key new insight paving the road to new therapeutic strategies. This gives us an opportunity to exploit chromosome conformation data in healthy cells to predict new drivers. AVAILABILITY AND IMPLEMENTATION: Our predicted CLL genes and RNAs are provided as a free resource to the community at https://life.bsc.es/iconbi/chromatin/index.html. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Chromatin network markers of leukemia |
| Location: | ELECTR NETWORK |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa445 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1093/bioinformatics/btaa445 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © The Author(s) 2020. Published by Oxford University Press. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Computer Science |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10124406 |
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