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SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
Volume 11, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
NATURE RESEARCH
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-89171-x
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- Life-Science Database Integration Project at the Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST)
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The study focused on applying computational drug repositioning to five mosquito-borne viral infections, identifying 77 drug candidates and 146 proteins for these diseases. Signature molecules and pathways for each virus infection were determined based on omics analyses, and drugs were classified according to the degree of target proteins in the protein-protein interaction network.
Pathogenic mosquito-borne viruses are a serious public health issue in tropical and subtropical regions and are increasingly becoming a problem in other climate zones. Drug repositioning is a rapid, pharmaco-economic approach that can be used to identify compounds that target these neglected tropical diseases. We have applied a computational drug repositioning method to five mosquito-borne viral infections: dengue virus (DENV), zika virus (ZIKV), West Nile virus (WNV), Japanese encephalitis virus (JEV) and Chikungunya virus (CHIV). We identified signature molecules and pathways for each virus infection based on omics analyses, and determined 77 drug candidates and 146 proteins for those diseases by using a filtering method. Based on the omics analyses, we analyzed the relationship among drugs, target proteins and the five viruses by projecting the signature molecules onto a human protein-protein interaction network. We have classified the drug candidates according to the degree of target proteins in the protein-protein interaction network for the five infectious diseases.
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