Research Paper Volume 15, Issue 8 pp 2863—2876
Identification of dual-purpose therapeutic targets implicated in aging and glioblastoma multiforme using PandaOmics - an AI-enabled biological target discovery platform
- 1 The Youth Longevity Association, Sevenoaks, NA, United Kingdom
- 2 Pine Crest School Science Research Department, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33334, USA
- 3 Shanghai High School International Division, Shanghai 200231, China
- 4 Insilico Medicine Hong Kong Ltd., Hong Kong Science and Technology Park, New Territories, Hong Kong, China
Received: February 7, 2023 Accepted: April 9, 2023 Published: April 26, 2023
https://doi.org/10.18632/aging.204678How to Cite
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Abstract
Glioblastoma Multiforme (GBM) is the most aggressive and most common primary malignant brain tumor. The age of GBM patients is considered as one of the disease's negative prognostic factors and the mean age of diagnosis is 62 years. A promising approach to preventing both GBM and aging is to identify new potential therapeutic targets that are associated with both conditions as concurrent drivers. In this work, we present a multi-angled approach of identifying targets, which takes into account not only the disease-related genes but also the ones important in aging. For this purpose, we developed three strategies of target identification using the results of correlation analysis augmented with survival data, differences in expression levels and previously published information of aging-related genes. Several studies have recently validated the robustness and applicability of AI-driven computational methods for target identification in both cancer and aging-related diseases. Therefore, we leveraged the AI predictive power of the PandaOmics TargetID engine in order to rank the resulting target hypotheses and prioritize the most promising therapeutic gene targets. We propose cyclic nucleotide gated channel subunit alpha 3 (CNGA3), glutamate dehydrogenase 1 (GLUD1) and sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) as potential novel dual-purpose therapeutic targets to treat aging and GBM.
Abbreviations
AI: artificial intelligence; CNGA3: cyclic nucleotide gated channel subunit alpha 3; EGFR: epidermal growth factor receptor; Ivy GAP: Ivy Glioblastoma Atlas Project; IDH1: isocitrate dehydrogenase; KOLs: key opinion leaders; Log FC: logarithmic fold-changes; GBM: glioblastoma multiforme; GLUD1: glutamate dehydrogenase 1; SIRT1: sirtuin 1; TTF: tumor-treating fields.