A gene network-driven approach to infer novel pathogenicity-associated genes: application to Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Ronika De1,2, Marvin Whiteley3,4, Rajeev K Azad1,2,5
1Department of Biological Sciences, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, USA.
Importance:
We present here a new systems-level approach to decipher genetic factors and biological pathways associated with virulence and/or antibiotic treatment of bacterial pathogens. The power of this approach was demonstrated by application to a well-studied pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1. Our gene co-expression network-based approach unraveled known and unknown genes and their networks associated with pathogenicity in P. aeruginosa PAO1. The systems-level investigation of P. aeruginosa PAO1 helped identify putative pathogenicity and resistance-associated genetic factors that could not otherwise be detected by conventional approaches of differential gene expression analysis. The network-based analysis uncovered modules that harbor genes not previously reported by several original studies on P. aeruginosa virulence and resistance. These could potentially act as molecular determinants of P. aeruginosa PAO1 pathogenicity and responses to antibiotics.
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