Journal
IEEE-ACM TRANSACTIONS ON COMPUTATIONAL BIOLOGY AND BIOINFORMATICS
Volume 16, Issue 6, Pages 1830-1842Publisher
IEEE COMPUTER SOC
DOI: 10.1109/TCBB.2018.2835459
Keywords
Vitiligo; disease genes; druggability; targetability; interactome; network topology; protein-protein interaction; target identification
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Vitiligo is a well-known skin disorder with complex etiology. Vitiligo pathogenesis is multifaceted with many ramifications. A computational systemic path was designed to first propose candidate disease proteins by merging properties from protein interaction networks and gene ontology terms. All in all, 109 proteins were identified and suggested to be involved in the onset of disease or its progression. Later, a composite approach was employed to prioritize vitiligo disease proteins by comparing and benchmarking the properties against standard target identification criteria. This includes sequence-based, structural, functional, essentiality, protein-protein interaction, vulnerability, secretability, assayability, and druggability information. The existing information was seamlessly integrated into efficient pipelines to propose a novel protocol for assessment of targetability of disease proteins. Using the online data resources and the scripting, an illustrative list of 68 potential drug targets was generated for vitiligo. While this list is broadly consistent with the research community's current interest in certain specific proteins, and suggests novel target candidates that may merit further study, it can still be modified to correspond to a user-specific environment, either by adjusting the weights for chosen criteria (i.e., a quantitative approach) or by changing the considered criteria (i.e., a qualitative approach).
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