Prediction of protein–protein interactions between Theileria parva and Bos taurus based on sequence homology

cg.authorship.typesCGIAR and developing country instituteen
cg.contributor.affiliationJomo Kenyatta University of Agriculture and Technologyen
cg.contributor.affiliationInternational Livestock Research Instituteen
cg.howPublishedFormally Publisheden
cg.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1093/biohorizons/hzw006en
cg.issn1754-7431en
cg.journalBioscience Horizonsen
cg.reviewStatusPeer Reviewen
cg.subject.ilriANIMAL DISEASESen
cg.subject.ilriCATTLEen
cg.subject.ilriDISEASE CONTROLen
cg.subject.ilriECFen
cg.subject.ilriLIVESTOCKen
cg.volume9en
dc.contributor.authorKamau, E.en
dc.contributor.authorNyanjom, S.G.en
dc.contributor.authorWamalwa, M.en
dc.date.accessioned2017-07-21T09:36:28Zen
dc.date.available2017-07-21T09:36:28Zen
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10568/82838
dc.titlePrediction of protein–protein interactions between Theileria parva and Bos taurus based on sequence homologyen
dcterms.abstractTheileria parva induces pathogenesis, characteristic of cancer cell transformation and associated with invasion, proliferation and altered gene expression of infected bovine host leucocytes. Interactions among proteins are an important basis for biological functions and underlie processes essential to pathogenesis during infection. Knowledge or prediction of host–pathogen molecular interactions may suggest mechanisms of pathogen interference and can be useful for selecting potential therapeutic targets. Using information on conserved protein interactions in other organisms (interologs), protein interactions and orthologous relationships were predicted between T. parva parasite and Bos taurus (the bovine mammalian host). Among the predicted interactions were Theileria HSP90 and glutaredoxin-like protein and bovine c-JUN, AKT1, Rac1, STAT3 and HIF-1-α proteins, observed to act as hubs connecting the predicted interactions to protein interactions within host. Bovine proteins were enriched in pathways that reflect known phenotype of Theileria infection such as induction or inhibition of apoptosis signalling, metastasis and tissue invasion, IL-10 signalling, NF-κB/IKK activation, PI-3K pathway, TGF-β signalling, modulation of immune and inflammatory responses. Support vector machine classifiers trained with the predicted interactions identified known protein interactions with 86.22% accuracy, 84.72% precision, 89.88% sensitivity and 84.39% specificity measures. Predicted interactions provide insight into Theileria- and bovine-encoded interactomes that contribute to infection, providing a candidate set for subsequent experimental studies with the possible use for defining functional annotation to uncharacterized parasite proteins.en
dcterms.accessRightsOpen Access
dcterms.audienceScientistsen
dcterms.available2016-09-23
dcterms.bibliographicCitationKamau, E., Nyanjom, S.G. and Wamalwa, M. 2016. Prediction of protein–protein interactions between Theileria parva and Bos taurus based on sequence homology. Bioscience Horizons 9(hzw006).en
dcterms.issued2016
dcterms.languageen
dcterms.publisherOxford University Pressen
dcterms.subjecteast coast feveren
dcterms.subjectprotozoaen
dcterms.subjecttheileria parvaen
dcterms.typeJournal Article

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