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ArticleScientific reports2018

Network-based genetic investigation of virulence-associated phenotypes in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Chan Yeong Kim, Muyoung Lee, Keehoon Lee, Sang Sun Yoon, Insuk Lee

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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Chan Yeong KimDepartment of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea.
Muyoung LeeDepartment of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea.
Keehoon LeeDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Korea.
Sang Sun YoonDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Brain Korea 21 PLUS Project for Medical Science, Yonsei University College of Medicine, Seoul, 03722, Korea.
Insuk LeeDepartment of Biotechnology, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul, 03722, Korea. insuklee@yonsei.ac.kr.

Funding

National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) 2017R1A2A2A05019987
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Staphylococcus aureus is a gram-positive bacterium that causes a wide range of infections. Recently, the spread of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) strains has seriously reduced antibiotic treatment options. Anti-virulence strategies, the objective of which is to target the virulence instead of the viability of the pathogen, have become widely accepted as a means of avoiding the emergence of new antibiotic-resistant strains. To increase the number of anti-virulence therapeutic options, it is necessary to identify as many novel virulence-associated genes as possible in MRSA. Co-functional networks have proved useful for mapping gene-to-phenotype associations in various organisms. Herein, we present StaphNet (www.inetbio.org/staphnet), a genome-scale co-functional network for an MRSA strain, S. aureus subsp. USA300_FPR3757. StaphNet, which was constructed by the integration of seven distinct types of genomics data within a Bayesian statistics framework, covers approximately 94% of the coding genome with a high degree of accuracy. We implemented a companion web server for network-based gene prioritization of the phenotypes of 31 different S. aureus strains. We demonstrated that StaphNet can effectively identify genes for virulence-associated phenotypes in MRSA. These results suggest that StaphNet can facilitate target discovery for the development of anti-virulence drugs to treat MRSA infection.

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AlgorithmsBiofilmsComputational BiologyGene Regulatory NetworksHemolysisInternetMethicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureusSoftwareVirulence

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