AI reveals insights into link between CD33 and cognitive impairment in Alzheimer's Disease

Copyright: © 2023 Raschka et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited..

Modeling biological mechanisms is a key for disease understanding and drug-target identification. However, formulating quantitative models in the field of Alzheimer's Disease is challenged by a lack of detailed knowledge of relevant biochemical processes. Additionally, fitting differential equation systems usually requires time resolved data and the possibility to perform intervention experiments, which is difficult in neurological disorders. This work addresses these challenges by employing the recently published Variational Autoencoder Modular Bayesian Networks (VAMBN) method, which we here trained on combined clinical and patient level gene expression data while incorporating a disease focused knowledge graph. Our approach, called iVAMBN, resulted in a quantitative model that allowed us to simulate a down-expression of the putative drug target CD33, including potential impact on cognitive impairment and brain pathophysiology. Experimental validation demonstrated a high overlap of molecular mechanism predicted to be altered by CD33 perturbation with cell line data. Altogether, our modeling approach may help to select promising drug targets.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:19

Enthalten in:

PLoS computational biology - 19(2023), 2 vom: 13. Feb., Seite e1009894

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Raschka, Tamara [VerfasserIn]
Sood, Meemansa [VerfasserIn]
Schultz, Bruce [VerfasserIn]
Altay, Aybuge [VerfasserIn]
Ebeling, Christian [VerfasserIn]
Fröhlich, Holger [VerfasserIn]

Links:

Volltext

Themen:

CD33 protein, human
Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Sialic Acid Binding Ig-like Lectin 3

Anmerkungen:

Date Completed 28.02.2023

Date Revised 16.02.2024

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1371/journal.pcbi.1009894

funding:

Förderinstitution / Projekttitel:

PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM352899174