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Unwinding the Novel Genes Involved in the Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells into Insulin-Producing Cells: A Network-Based Approach

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Unwinding the Novel Genes Involved in the Differentiation of Embryonic Stem Cells into Insulin-Producing Cells: A Network-Based Approach
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Interdisciplinary Sciences: Computational Life Sciences, February 2016
DOI 10.1007/s12539-016-0148-9
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T. Femlin Blessia, Sachidanand Singh, J. Jannet Vennila

Abstract

Diabetes is one of the main causes of death in the world. Diabetes is marked by high blood glucose levels and develops when the body doesn't produce enough insulin or is not able to use insulin effectively, or both. Type I diabetes is a chronic sickness caused by lack of insulin due to the autoimmune destruction of pancreatic insulin-producing beta cells. Research on permanent cure for diabetes is in progress with several remarkable findings in the past few decades among which stem cell therapy has turned out to be a promising way to cure diabetes. Stem cells have the remarkable potential to differentiate into glucose-responsive beta cells through controlled differentiation protocols. Discovering novel targets that could potentially influence the differentiation to specific cell type will help in disease therapy. The present work focuses on finding novel genes or transcription factors involved in the human embryonic stem cell differentiation into insulin-producing beta cells using network biology approach. The interactome of 321 genes and their associated molecules involved in human embryonic stem cell differentiation into beta cells was constructed, which includes 1937 nodes and 8105 edges with a scale-free topology. Pathway analysis for the hubs obtained through MCODE revealed that four highly interactive hubs were relevant to embryonic stem cell differentiation into insulin-producing cells. Their role in different pathways and stem cell differentiation was studied. Centrality parameters were applied to identify the potential controllers of the differentiation processes: BMP4, SALL4, ZIC1, NTS, RNF2, FOXO1, AKT1 and GATA4. This type of approach gives an insight to identify potential genes/transcription factors which may play influential role in many complex biological processes.

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Country Count As %
Germany 1 6%
Unknown 17 94%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 3 17%
Researcher 3 17%
Other 2 11%
Student > Doctoral Student 2 11%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 11%
Other 4 22%
Unknown 2 11%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Medicine and Dentistry 5 28%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 22%
Engineering 2 11%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 11%
Pharmacology, Toxicology and Pharmaceutical Science 1 6%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 4 22%
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#17,784,649
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#147
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