A network biology-based approach to evaluating the effect of environmental contaminants on human interactome and diseases

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Environmental contaminant exposure can pose significant risks to human health. Therefore, evaluating the impact of this exposure is of great importance; however, it is often difficult because both the molecular mechanism of disease and the mode of action of the contaminants are complex. We used network biology techniques to quantitatively assess the impact of environmental contaminants on the human interactome and diseases with a particular focus on seven major contaminant categories: persistent organic pollutants (POPs), dioxins, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs), pesticides, perfluorochemicals (PFCs), metals, and pharmaceutical and personal care products (PPCPs). We integrated publicly available data on toxicogenomics, the diseasome, protein-protein interactions (PPIs), and gene essentiality and found that a few contaminants were targeted to many genes, and a few genes were targeted by many contaminants. The contaminant targets were hub proteins in the human PPI network, whereas the target proteins in most categories did not contain abundant essential proteins. Generally, contaminant targets and disease-associated proteins were closely associated with the PPI network, and the closeness of the associations depended on the disease type and chemical category. Network biology techniques were used to identify environmental contaminants with broad effects on the human interactome and contaminant-sensitive biomarkers. Moreover, this method enabled us to quantify the relationship between environmental contaminants and human diseases, which was supported by epidemiological and experimental evidence. These methods and findings have facilitated the elucidation of the complex relationship between environmental exposure and adverse health outcomes.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2018

Erschienen:

2018

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:160

Enthalten in:

Ecotoxicology and environmental safety - 160(2018) vom: 30. Sept., Seite 316-327

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Iida, M [VerfasserIn]
Takemoto, K [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Adverse outcomes
Cosmetics
Dioxins
Environmental Pollutants
Environmental contaminants
Human interactome
Hydrocarbons, Fluorinated
Journal Article
Metals
Network biology
Pesticides
Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons

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Date Completed 24.09.2018

Date Revised 04.10.2018

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1016/j.ecoenv.2018.05.065

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM285024477