iMSEA: A Novel Metabolite Set Enrichment Analysis Strategy to Decipher Drug Interactions.
Yongpei WangXingxing LiuLiheng DongKian-Kai ChengCaigui LinXiaomin WangJi-Yang DongLingli DengDaniel RafteryPublished in: Analytical chemistry (2023)
Drug combinations are commonly used to treat various diseases to achieve synergistic therapeutic effects or to alleviate drug resistance. Nevertheless, some drug combinations might lead to adverse effects, and thus, it is crucial to explore the mechanisms of drug interactions before clinical treatment. Generally, drug interactions have been studied using nonclinical pharmacokinetics, toxicology, and pharmacology. Here, we propose a complementary strategy based on metabolomics, which we call interaction metabolite set enrichment analysis, or iMSEA, to decipher drug interactions. First, a digraph-based heterogeneous network model was constructed to model the biological metabolic network based on the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) database. Second, treatment-specific influences on all detected metabolites were calculated and propagated across the whole network model. Third, pathway activity was defined and enriched to quantify the influence of each treatment on the predefined functional metabolite sets, i.e., metabolic pathways. Finally, drug interactions were identified by comparing the pathway activity enriched by the drug combination treatments and the single drug treatments. A data set consisting of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells that were treated with oxaliplatin (OXA) and/or vitamin C (VC) was used to illustrate the effectiveness of the iMSEA strategy for evaluation of drug interactions. Performance evaluation using synthetic noise data was also performed to evaluate sensitivities and parameter settings for the iMSEA strategy. The iMSEA strategy highlighted synergistic effects of combined OXA and VC treatments including the alterations in the glycerophospholipid metabolism pathway and glycine, serine, and threonine metabolism pathway. This work provides an alternative method to reveal the mechanisms of drug combinations from the viewpoint of metabolomics.
Keyphrases
- adverse drug
- genome wide
- randomized controlled trial
- ms ms
- emergency department
- air pollution
- big data
- drug induced
- escherichia coli
- machine learning
- pseudomonas aeruginosa
- drug resistant
- electronic health record
- acinetobacter baumannii
- multidrug resistant
- newly diagnosed
- transcription factor
- cell proliferation
- artificial intelligence
- pi k akt
- single cell