Title
Systems biology study of mucopolysaccharidosis using a human metabolic reconstruction network
Date Issued
01 February 2016
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Salazar D.A.
Rodríguez-López A.
Herreño A.
Barbosa H.
Herrera J.
Ardila A.
González J.
Alméciga-Díaz C.J.
Pontificia Universidad Javeriana
Publisher(s)
Academic Press Inc.
Abstract
Mucopolysaccharidosis (MPS) is a group of lysosomal storage diseases (LSD), characterized by the deficiency of a lysosomal enzyme responsible for the degradation of glycosaminoglycans (GAG). This deficiency leads to the lysosomal accumulation of partially degraded GAG. Nevertheless, deficiency of a single lysosomal enzyme has been associated with impairment in other cell mechanism, such as apoptosis and redox balance. Although GAG analysis represents the main biomarker for MPS diagnosis, it has several limitations that can lead to a misdiagnosis, whereby the identification of new biomarkers represents an important issue for MPS. In this study, we used a system biology approach, through the use of a genome-scale human metabolic reconstruction to understand the effect of metabolism alterations in cell homeostasis and to identify potential new biomarkers in MPS. In-silico MPS models were generated by silencing of MPS-related enzymes, and were analyzed through a flux balance and variability analysis. We found that MPS models used approximately 2286 reactions to satisfy the objective function. Impaired reactions were mainly involved in cellular respiration, mitochondrial process, amino acid and lipid metabolism, and ion exchange. Metabolic changes were similar for MPS I and II, and MPS III A to C; while the remaining MPS showed unique metabolic profiles. Eight and thirteen potential high-confidence biomarkers were identified for MPS IVB and VII, respectively, which were associated with the secondary pathologic process of LSD. In vivo evaluation of predicted intermediate confidence biomarkers (β-hexosaminidase and β-glucoronidase) for MPS IVA and VI correlated with the in-silico prediction. These results show the potential of a computational human metabolic reconstruction to understand the molecular mechanisms this group of diseases, which can be used to identify new biomarkers for MPS.
Start page
129
End page
139
Volume
117
Issue
2
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Sistemas de automatización, Sistemas de control
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84957849334
PubMed ID
Source
Molecular Genetics and Metabolism
ISSN of the container
10967192
Source funding
Departamento Administrativo de Ciencia, Tecnología e Innovación (COLCIENCIAS)
Sponsor(s)
This work was funded by Pontificia Universidad Javeriana (Grant ID 6235 and 5570 ) and Colciencias (Grant ID 120356933205 ). We thank to Dr. Andrés Pinzón (Universidad Nacional de Colombia) for his assistance during data analysis. We thank to Dr. Roberto Giugliani (Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil) for the human MPS IVA fibroblasts and to Instituto de Genética Humana (Pontificia Universidad Javeriana, Colombia) for the human healthy fibroblasts.
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