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Autor	Schultz, Bruce; Delong, Lauren Nicole; Masny, Aliaksandr; Lentzen, Manuel; Raschka, Tamara; Dijk, David van; Zaliani, Andrea; Hansen, Anne Funck; Rüping, Stefan; Kugler, Sabine; Burmeister, Jan; Kohlhammer, Jörn; Sarau, George; Christiansen, Silke; Kannt, Aimo; Foldenauer, Ann Christina; Claussen, Carsten; Resch, Eduard; Frank, Kevin; Gribbon, Philip; Kuzikov, Maria; Keminer, Oliver; Laue, Hendrik; Hahn, Horst; Hirsch, Jochen; Wischnewski, Marco; Günther, Matthias; Archipovas, Saulius; Tom Kodamullil, Alpha; Gemünd, Andre; Fluck, Juliane; Steinborn, Carina; Ebeling, Christian; Domingo Fernández, Daniel; Hermanowski, Helena; Fröhlich, Holger; Klein, Jürgen; Schultz, Bruce; Jacobs, Marc; Hofmann-Apitius, Martin; Knieps, Meike; Krapp, Michael; Wendland, Philipp Johannes; Wegner, Philipp; Golriz Khatami, Sepehr; Springstubbe, Stephan; Linden, Thomas; Lentzen, Manuel; Fröhlich, Holger
Datum	2023
Art	Journal Article
Abstrakt	In addition to vaccines, the World Health Organization sees novel medications as an urgent matter to fight the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. One possible strategy is to identify target proteins, for which a perturbation by an existing compound is likely to benefit COVID-19 patients. In order to contribute to this effort, we present GuiltyTargets-COVID-19 (https://guiltytargets-covid.eu/), a machine learning supported web tool to identify novel candidate drug targets. Using six bulk and three single cell RNA-Seq datasets, together with a lung tissue specific protein-protein interaction network, we demonstrate that GuiltyTargets-COVID-19 is capable of (i) prioritizing meaningful target candidates and assessing their druggability, (ii) unraveling their linkage to known disease mechanisms, (iii) mapping ligands from the ChEMBL database to the identified targets, and (iv) pointing out potential side effects in the case that the mapped ligands correspond to approved drugs. Our example analyses identified 4 potential drug targets from the datasets: AKT3 from both the bulk and single cell RNA-Seq data as well as AKT2, MLKL, and MAPK11 in the single cell experiments. Altogether, we believe that our web tool will facilitate future target identification and drug development for COVID-19, notably in a cell type and tissue specific manner.
ISSN	2045-2322
Url	https://publica.fraunhofer.de/handle/publica/442679