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  • Publication
    Past, present, and future of therapies for pituitary neuroendocrine tumors: need for omics and drug repositioning guidance
    (2022-03-01) ERDOĞAN, ONUR; ARĞA, KAZIM YALÇIN; BOZKURT, SÜHEYLA; BAYRAKLI, FATİH; YILMAZ, BETÜL; TURANLI, BESTE; Aydin B., Yildirim E., ERDOĞAN O., ARĞA K. Y., Yilmaz B., BOZKURT S., BAYRAKLI F., TURANLI B.
    Innovation roadmaps are important, because they encourage the actors in an innovation ecosystem to creatively imagine multiple possible science future(s), while anticipating the prospects and challenges on the innovation trajectory. In this overarching context, this expert review highlights the present unmet need for therapeutic innovations for pituitary neuroendocrine tumors (PitNETs), also known as pituitary adenomas. Although there are many drugs used in practice to treat PitNETs, many of these drugs can have negative side effects and show highly variable outcomes in terms of overall recovery. Building innovation roadmaps for PitNETs\" treatments can allow incorporation of systems biology approaches to bring about insights at multiple levels of cell biology, from genes to proteins to metabolites. Using the systems biology techniques, it will then be possible to offer potential therapeutic strategies for the convergence of preventive approaches and patient-centered disease treatment. Here, we first provide a comprehensive overview of the molecular subtypes of PitNETs and therapeutics for these tumors from the past to the present. We then discuss examples of clinical trials and drug repositioning studies and how multi-omics studies can help in discovery and rational development of new therapeutics for PitNETs. Finally, this expert review offers new public health and personalized medicine approaches on cases that are refractory to conventional treatment or recur despite currently used surgical and/or drug therapy.
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    Acute myeloid leukemia: New multiomics molecular signatures and implications for systems medicine diagnostics and therapeutics innovation
    (2022-07-01) ARĞA, KAZIM YALÇIN; TURANLI, BESTE; YILMAZ, BETÜL; Kelesoglu N., Kori M., TURANLI B., ARĞA K. Y., Yilmaz B., Duru O. A.
    Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a common, complex, and multifactorial malignancy of the hematopoietic system. AML diagnosis and treatment outcomes display marked heterogeneity and patient-to-patient variations. To date, AML-related biomarker discovery research has employed single omics inquiries. Multiomics analyses that reconcile and integrate the data streams from multiple levels of the cellular hierarchy, from genes to proteins to metabolites, offer much promise for innovation in AML diagnostics and therapeutics. We report, in this study, a systems medicine and multiomics approach to integrate the AML transcriptome data and reporter biomolecules at the RNA, protein, and metabolite levels using genome-scale biological networks. We utilized two independent transcriptome datasets (GSE5122, GSE8970) in the Gene Expression Omnibus database. We identified new multiomics molecular signatures of relevance to AML: miRNAs (e.g., mir-484 and miR-519d-3p), receptors (ACVR1 and PTPRG), transcription factors (PRDM14 and GATA3), and metabolites (in particular, amino acid derivatives). The differential expression profiles of all reporter biomolecules were crossvalidated in independent RNA-Seq and miRNA-Seq datasets. Notably, we found that PTPRG holds important prognostication potential as evaluated by Kaplan-Meier survival analyses. The multiomics relationships unraveled in this analysis point toward the genomic pathogenesis of AML. These multiomics molecular leads warrant further research and development as potential diagnostic and therapeutic targets.
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    Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis Molecular Substrates Revealed by Competing Endogenous RNA Regulatory Networks
    (2023-01-01) TURANLI, BESTE; Kircali M. F., TURANLI B.
    Idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic progressive fibrotic disease of the lung with poor prognosis. Fibrosis results from remodeling of the interstitial tissue. A wide range of gene expression changes are observed, but the role of micro RNAs (miRNAs) and circular RNAs (circRNA) is still unclear. Therefore, this study aimed to establish an messenger RNA (mRNA)-miRNA-circRNA competing endogenous RNA (ceRNA) regulatory network to uncover novel molecular signatures using systems biology tools. Six datasets were used to determine differentially expressed genes (DEGs) and miRNAs (DEmiRNA). Accordingly, protein-protein, mRNA-miRNA, and miRNA-circRNA interactions were constructed. Modules were determined and further analyzed in the Drug Gene Budger platform to identify potential therapeutic compounds. We uncovered common 724 DEGs and 278 DEmiRNAs. In the protein-protein interaction network, TMPRSS4, ESR2, TP73, CLEC4E, and TP63 were identified as hub protein coding genes. The mRNA-miRNA interaction network revealed two modules composed of ADRA1A, ADRA1B, hsa-miR-484 and CDH2, TMPRSS4, and hsa-miR-543. The DEmiRNAs in the modules further analyzed to propose potential circRNA regulators in the ceRNA network. These results help deepen the understanding of the mechanisms of IPF. In addition, the molecular leads reported herein might inform future innovations in diagnostics and therapeutics research and development for IPF.
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    Decoding systems biology of inflammation signatures in cancer pathogenesis: Pan-cancer insights from 12 common cancers
    (2023-10-01) TURANLI, BESTE; TURANLI B.
    Chronic inflammation is an important contributor to tumorigenesis in many tissues. However, the underlying mechanisms of inflammatory signaling in the tumor microenvironment are not yet fully understood in various cancers. Therefore, this study aimed to uncover the gene expression signatures of inflammation-associated proteins that lead to tumorigenesis, and with an eye to discovery of potential system biomarkers and novel drug candidates in oncology. Gene expression profiles associated with 12 common cancers (e.g., breast invasive carcinoma, colon adenocarcinoma, liver hepatocellular carcinoma, and prostate adenocarcinoma) from The Cancer Genome Atlas were retrieved and mapped to inflammation-related gene sets. Subsequently, the inflammation-associated differentially expressed genes (i-DEGs) were determined. The i-DEGs common in all cancers were proposed as tumor inflammation signatures (TIS) after pan-cancer analysis. A TIS, consisting of 45 proteins, was evaluated as a potential system biomarker based on its prognostic forecasting and secretion profiles in multiple tissues. In addition, i-DEGs for each cancer type were used as queries for drug repurposing. Narciclasine, parthenolide, and homoharringtonine were identified as potential candidates for drug repurposing. Biomarker candidates in relation to inflammation were identified such as KNG1, SPP1, and MIF. Collectively, these findings inform precision diagnostics development to distinguish individual cancer types, and can also pave the way for novel prognostic decision tools and repurposed drugs across multiple cancers. These new findings and hypotheses warrant further research toward precision/personalized medicine in oncology. Pan-cancer analysis of inflammatory mediators can open up new avenues for innovation in cancer diagnostics and therapeutics.