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Wan et al., J Proteomics Bioinform 2013, S6 DOI: 10.4172/jpb.S6-007
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Mechanisms of Radiation Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans R1 Revealed by the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Network Using Bayesian Network ApproachPing Wan1#*, Zongliang Yue1#, Zhan Xie1#, Qiang Gao1, Mengyao Yu1, Zhiwei Yang1 and Jinsong Huang2*1College of Life Science, Capital Normal University, Beijing, 100048, China2Beijing Computing Center, Beijing, 100094, China#Contributed equally
*Corresponding authors: Ping Wan, College of Life Science, Capital Normal, University, Beijing, 100048, China, E-mail: [email protected]
Jinsong Huang, Beijing Computing Center, Beijing, 100094, China, E-mail: [email protected]
Received May 22, 2013; Accepted June 24, 2013; Published June 27, 2013
Citation: Wan P, Yue Z, Xie Z, Gao Q, Yu M, et al. (2013) Mechanisms of Radiation Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans R1 Revealed by the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Network Using Bayesian Network Approach. J Proteomics Bioinform S6: 007. doi:10.4172/jpb.S6-007
Copyright: © 2013 Wan P, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Keywords: Mechanisms of radiation resistance; Deinococcus radiodurans R1; Gene Regulatory network; Bayesian network
IntroductionThe Gram-positive bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans R1 is the
most radiation-resistant organism described to date [1]. The radiation resistance of D. radiodurans R1 makes it an ideal candidate of many applications in fields ranging from environmental biotechnology to health care.
Although D. radiodurans R1 was discovered in 1956 [2], little is known about the mechanisms of radiation resistance in the bacterium till now. To uncover the mechanisms of the radiation resistance in D. radiodurans R1, White et al. [3] sequenced the whole genome of D. radiodurans R1 in 1999. The genome is composed of two chromosomes (2.65 and 0.412 Mb), a megaplasmid (0.177 Mb), and a small plasmid (0.046 Mb). It was expected that the complete genome sequence would shed light on the extraordinary DNA repair capabilities of D. radiodurans R1. However, analysis of the genome sequence did not provide insight into the genetic basis of the DNA repair capabilities [3,4]. In 2007, Griffiths and Gupta [5] identified 399 unique proteins to D. radiodurans R1, but did not illustrate the biological functions of theseproteins. The emergence of DNA microarray technology [6] enablesresearchers to measure all the gene expression levels of an organismsimultaneously. In 2003, Liu et al. [7] described the transcriptionaldynamics in D. radiodurans R1 cultures following exposure to 15 kGyionizing irradiation. The irradiated culture was then transferred tofresh media to recover. During the recovery, the concentration of 2750D. radiodurans R1 transcripts relative to the unirradiated control atnine different time points over a 24 hour period were analyzed. Theresults indicated that 832 genes were induced and 451 genes wererepressed at one or more of the time points during the recovery period.Liu et al. [7] analyzed the DNA microarray results using hierarchicalclustering. The clustering algorithm is useful in discovering genes thathave similar expression patterns over a set of experiments, but difficultto reveal the process of the transcriptional regulation [8]. Due to thelarge number of loci responding during recovery following irradiation,it is difficult to interpret the significance of these findings.
Currently, two mechanisms explain the radiation resistance in D. radiodurans R1 [1,9]. However, DNA repair system in D. radiodurans R1 seems having no difference with other organisms. The radiation-resistant mechanisms in D. radiodurans R1 are far from complete understood. Bayesin network approach [10] is a promising tool for DNA microarray data analysis [11,12] and biological network reconstruction [13-15]. To explore the mechanisms of radiation resistance in D. radiodurans R1, in this study we for the first time reconstructed the D. radiodurans R1 gene regulatory network using Bayesin network approach. Our results revealed more mechanisms involved in radiation-resistant processes in D. radiodurans R1.
Data and MethodsD. radiodurans R1 DNA microarray data
The D. radiodurans R1 DNA microarray data were retrieved fromreference [7]. The data include 2750 genes. Each gene contains gene expression values at nine time points.
Reconstruction of D. radiodurans R1 gene regulatory network using Bayesian network approach
Bayesian network is a probabilistic graphical model that represents a set of random variables and their conditional dependencies via a directed acyclic graph (DAG). It consists of two components: the first
AbstractThe mechanisms of radiation resistance in the extreme anti-radiation bacterium Deinococcus radiodurans
R1 have fascinated researchers for more than sixty years. In this study, with the DNA microarray data, we first constructed the gene regulatory network in D. radiodurans R1 using Bayesian network approach. The results of our analysis for the gene regulatory network reveal twelve significant mechanisms of radiation resistance in D. radiodurans R1, of which two mechanisms (DNA repair and reactive oxygen species) are consistent with the well-known knowledge; and two mechanisms (metal ion homeostasis and oxygen transport process) support Daly’s manganese-based radiation protection hypothesis. We also demonstrate that different mechanisms act in concert under the radiation stress in D. radiodurans R1.
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Citation: Wan P, Yue Z, Xie Z, Gao Q, Yu M, et al. (2013) Mechanisms of Radiation Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans R1 Revealed by the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Network Using Bayesian Network Approach. J Proteomics Bioinform S6: 007. doi:10.4172/jpb.S6-007
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component is a directed acyclic graph; and the second component is a set of parameters that quantify the network [12]. A Bayesian network is defined as:
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In this study, we used the R package bnlearn (http://cran.r-project.org/) to learn the Bayesian network structure.
Figure 1: The gene regulatory network in D. Radiodurans R1. The gene regulatory network includes 1938 nodes and 2635 edges. The red nodes represent unique genes in D. Radiodurans R1. The node size is proportion to the degree of the node.
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DR0322
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DR0443
DRB0025 DR1608
DR0989
DR0041
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DR0401DR0261
DR2277
DR2314DR1895
DR1281
DR1354
DR0475DR2083
DR1743
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DR1949DR1747
DR1127
DR2240
DRA0135
DR0478
DR2102
DR1826
DR2196
DR1664
DR1566
DR2256DR1097
DR0869
DR2327
DR1151
DR1520
DR1244
DRA0336
DR0571
DR1876DR2585
DR2281
DRA0007
DR1993
DR0107
DR1496
DR2544
DR0054
DR1646
DR0222
DR1253
DR0885DR1124
DR1676
DR0482
DR0575
DR2416
DR1473
DR0854
DR1902
DR1065
DR1143
DR0053
DRA0086
DRA0058
DR0921
DR2016
DR0988
DR2547
DR0773
DR1092
DR0570
DR2414
DR1384
DR0785
DR2422DR0429
DR1846DR1534
DR1375
DR0433
DR0992DR2258
DRA0330
DR2511
DR2541
DR2433
DR1167
DR2089
DR0795
DR1548
DR0598
DR0607DR2498
DR0600 DR0733
DR0673
DR0463
DR1018
DR0640
DR1717 DR0108DR0271
DR1713DR0777
DR0048
DR2316DRA0057
DR0875
DR2450
DR0511
DR2055
DR0089
DR2220
DR0012
DRB0110
DRA0008DR0276
DR1591
DRB0104
DR1976
DR0265
DR0609DR0384
DRA0345
DRC0027
DR1187
DR1075DR0318
DRA0151
DR1144
DRA0093
DR0635DR0884
DR0096
DR0705
DR2504
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DR0529
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DR0775
DR2591DR1994
DR0584
DR0291
DR0262
DR0145
DR1248
Citation: Wan P, Yue Z, Xie Z, Gao Q, Yu M, et al. (2013) Mechanisms of Radiation Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans R1 Revealed by the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Network Using Bayesian Network Approach. J Proteomics Bioinform S6: 007. doi:10.4172/jpb.S6-007
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Bootstrap test for the Bayesian network
Bootstrap test for the Bayesian network was performed according to the method proposed by Friedman et al. [16]. In this study, we performed the bootstrap test for 150 times. Pair nodes with edge bootstrap values equal to or larger than 0.85 will be used to reconstruct the gene regulatory network.
Visualization of the gene regulatory network
Visualization of the gene regulatory network was performed using the software Cytoscape 2.8.3 (http://www.cytoscape.org/) [17].
GO term enrichment analysis
To find the significant biological processes in the gene regulatory network, we first annotated the GO terms for each gene via InterProScan tool [18]. Then, we conducted the GO term enrichment analysis using R package topGO (http://www.bioconductor.org/packages/2.12/bioc/html/topGO.html). The significant level for the enrichment is p-value < 0.05.
GO term annotations for the unknown genes based on Markov blanket
In a Bayesian network, the Markov blanket of node includes its parents, children and the other parents of all of its children. To annotate the function of an unknown gene, we first extracted the Markov blanket of the gene from the gene regulatory network, and then conducted the GO term enrichment analysis for the Markov blanket. Finally, we assigned the enriched GO term(s) to the unknown gene as its function(s).
ResultsGene regulatory network of D. radiodurans R1
We first reconstructed D. radiodurans R1 gene regulatory network using Bayesian network approach. The gene regulatory network includes 1938 nodes and 2635 edges (Figure 1). Each edge between two nodes has a bootstrap value greater than 0.85. The distribution of node degrees showed that only a minority of nodes have high degree of connectivity (Figure 2), and followed the power law (Figure S1). The result suggested that D. radiodurans R1 gene regulatory network is a scale-free network. The scale-free networks are remarkably resistant to accidental failures [19]. Since the hub nodes (i.e. nodes having high degree of connectivity) in a scale-free network dominate the overall connectivity of the network, they are of great importance [20]. Therefore, we next focused our analysis on the hub nodes in D. radiodurans R1 gene regulatory network, and expected to find out the key mechanisms of radiation resistance in D. radiodurans R1.
Hub node sub-network reveals a variety of radiation-resistant mechanisms in D. radiodurans R1
In this study, we defined the nodes with degree equal to or greater than 8 as hub nodes. We collected all of 74 hub nodes and 511 nodes directly connected with the hub nodes (Table S1). Figure 2 is the sub-network which hub nodes involved in. Next, we performed the GO term enrichment analysis for the hub node sub-network, and found that twenty-two biological processes were enriched (Table 1, Figure S2). The enriched biological processes could be classified into eight categories: (1) Arginine metabolic process; (2) GTP metabolic process; (3) metal ion homeostasis; (4) oxygen transport; (5) dicarboxylic acid transport; (6) protein transport; (7) protein oligomerization and (8)
Figure 2: The distribution of node degrees. In the gene regulatory network, only a minority of nodes have high degree of connectivity. On the whole, the distribution of node degrees follows the power law. However, the number of nodes with degree of seven is over-represented.
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Category GO.ID Term p-value
1GO:0006520 cellular amino acid metabolic process 0.034
GO:0006525 arginine metabolic process 0.043
2 GO:0046039 GTP metabolic process 0.036
3
GO:0048878 chemical homeostasis 0.031
GO:0006873 cellular ion homeostasis 0.031
GO:0006875 cellular metal ion homeostasis 0.031
GO:0006879 cellular iron ion homeostasis 0.031
GO:0030003 cellular cation homeostasis 0.031
GO:0050801 ion homeostasis 0.031
GO:0055065 metal ion homeostasis 0.031
GO:0055072 iron ion homeostasis 0.031
GO:0055080 cation homeostasis 0.031
4GO:0015669 gas transport 0.031
GO:0015671 oxygen transport 0.031
5 GO:0006835 dicarboxylic acid transport 0.031
6
GO:0033036 macromolecule localization 0.023
GO:0008104 protein localization 0.023
GO:0045184 establishment of protein localization 0.016
GO:0015031 protein transport 0.016
7 GO:0051259 protein oligomerization 0.031
8GO:0055082 cellular chemical homeostasis 0.031
GO:0071555 cell wall organization 0.031
Table 1: Significant biological processes in the hub node sub-network.
Citation: Wan P, Yue Z, Xie Z, Gao Q, Yu M, et al. (2013) Mechanisms of Radiation Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans R1 Revealed by the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Network Using Bayesian Network Approach. J Proteomics Bioinform S6: 007. doi:10.4172/jpb.S6-007
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Figure 3: The sub-network of hub node in D. Radiodurans R1. The sub-network includes 74 hub nodes with degree of 8~10 and 563 nodes directly connected with the hub nodes. The node sized is proportion to the degree of the node. The sub-network reveals eight mechanisms of radiation-resistance in D. radiodurans R1 (shown in different colors).
Dicarboxylic acid transport
Protein transport
DR2043
DR1333
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DR2587DR0470
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DRA0204
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DR0252
DR1329
DR2110
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DR0405
DR1745
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DR1227
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DR1642
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DR2576
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DRA0053
DR1988
DR0041
DR1832
DR1742DR1004
DR1766
DRB0029
DR1747
DR1104
DR0439
DR0127
DR1242
DR2337
DR0636DR1310
DRA0128
DR0118
DRA0237
DR0892
DRB0011
DR2384DR2236
DR1069
DR0327
DR0048
DR0884
DR1677
DR0018
DR0049
DR1362DR0019
DRA0080 DRA0363
DR0459
DR1801DR1919
DR1511
DR1950
DR1509
DR2563
DR1649
DR1479
DR1013
DRB0063
DR2055
DR0794
DR1348DRA0312
DR0759
DR0606
DRA0283
DR1809
DR0611
DR1101
DRB0083
DR0630
DR0919
DR0827
DRA0338
DR1949
DR1195
DR0601
DR1847
DR2600
DR0646
DRA0326
Arginine metabolic process
GTP metabolic process
Metal ion homeostasis
Oxygen transport
cell wall organization (Table 1). We found that some nodes involved in different categories simultaneously. For example, nodes DR0569, DR0778, DR0785, DR1454, DR1679 and DR2547 involved in the oxygen transport and the dicarboxylic acid transport at the same time. The node DR1910 participated the dicarboxylic acid transport as well as the cell wall organization (Table S1).
Nodes with degree of seven are over-represented in D. radiodurans R1 gene regulatory network
We observed that 131 nodes with degree of seven appeared in D. radiodurans R1 gene regulatory network (Figure 3). Theoretically, the number should be less than that of the node with degree of six (47 nodes). To understand the biological meaning behind the over-representation, we extracted the sub-network of the 131 nodes with the degree of seven from the whole gene regulatory network, and performed the GO term enrichment analysis for the sub-network. We found that thirteen biological processes were enriched (Table 2). The enriched biological processes could be classified into 4 categories: (1) DNA repair; (2) reactive oxygen species (ROS) metabolic process and superoxide metabolic process; (3) glycine catabolic process and (4) tRNA aminoacylation (Table 2).
DiscussionIn this study, we reconstructed the first gene regulatory network
for the extreme radiation-resistant bacteria D. radiodurans R1 using Bayesian network approach. Further analysis for the gene regulatory network revealed that twelve mechanisms involved in the radiation-
Category GO.ID Term p-value
1
GO:0006950 response to stress 0.048
GO:0033554 cellular response to stress 0.027
GO:0006974 response to DNA damage stimulus 0.041
GO:0006281 DNA repair 0.041
2GO:0072593 reactive oxygen species metabolic process 0.015
GO:0006801 superoxide metabolic process 0.015
3GO:0009071 serine family amino acid catabolic process 0.043
GO:0006546 glycine catabolic process 0.043
4
GO:0019538 protein metabolic process 0.011
GO:0044267 cellular protein metabolic process 0.042
GO:0043038 amino acid activation 0.041
GO:0043039 tRNA aminoacylation 0.041
GO:0006418 tRNA aminoacylation for protein translation 0.041
Table 2: Significant biological processes in the sub-network of 131 nodes with degree of 7.
resistant processes in D. radiodurans R1.
We find eight mechanisms of radiation-resistance in D. radiodurans R1: (1) Arginine metabolic process; (2) GTP metabolic process; (3) Dicarboxylic acid transport; (4) Protein transport; (5)
Citation: Wan P, Yue Z, Xie Z, Gao Q, Yu M, et al. (2013) Mechanisms of Radiation Resistance in Deinococcus radiodurans R1 Revealed by the Reconstruction of Gene Regulatory Network Using Bayesian Network Approach. J Proteomics Bioinform S6: 007. doi:10.4172/jpb.S6-007
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Protein oligomerization; (6) Cell wall organization; (7) Glycine catabolic process and (8) tRNA aminoacylation. Some mechanism has been proved to be radiation-resistant in other organisms. For example, arginine could protect hematopoietic progenitor cells against ionizing radiation in mammalian [21]. The existences of nodes involve different mechanisms (Table S1) suggest that different mechanisms may act in concert under the radiation stress.
Previous studies have found that DNA repair and reactive oxygen species (ROS) mechanism respond to radiation in all biological systems including mammalian [4]. In this study, we also found that DNA repair process and reactive oxygen species metabolic process are two significant radiation-resistant mechanisms in D. radiodurans R1 (Table 2). Therefore, our results are consistent with the known knowledge. Our finding of the over-representation of node with degree 7 in D. radiodurans R1 gene regulatory network suggests that D. radiodurans R1 may has a more complex DNA repair and reactive oxygen species (ROS) mechanism than other organisms.
In 2009, Daly proposed the manganese-based radiation protection hypothesis [9]. The hypothesis involves metal ion homeostasis and oxygen transport process. In this study, we also find that the two mechanisms are related to radiation resistance (Table 1). Therefore, our results support Daly’s manganese-based radiation protection hypothesis.
One limitation of our study is that Bayesian network is a directed acyclic graph (DAG). So our gene regulatory network did not include the relationship of negative feedback regulation. Nevertheless, our results are not only validated by the well-known mechanisms, and also support the recent hypothesis of radiation resistance. Thus, our findings uncover more radiation-resistant mechanisms in D. radiodurans R1.
In summary, using Bayesian network approach, we reconstruct the first gene regulatory network of the extreme radiation-resistant bacterium D. radiodurans R1. We find more radiation-resistant mechanisms in D. radiodurans R1. Our results are not only consistent with the known knowledge, but also support the current radiation-resistant hypothesis.Acknowledgement
The authors would like to thank Xiaoke Gui and Yubao Chen for their helpful discussions. This work was supported by Beijing Municipal Education Commission PHR Project (Grant No.PHR201008078). We appreciate the effort of the anonymous reviewer and his/her useful comments and suggestions for improving the manuscript.
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