DOI

  • Christina V. Theodoris
  • Ping Zhou
  • Lei Liu
  • Yu Zhang
  • Tomohiro Nishino
  • Yu Huang
  • Aleksandra Kostina
  • Sanjeev S. Ranade
  • Casey A. Gifford
  • Vladimir Uspenskiy
  • Anna Malashicheva
  • Sheng Ding
  • Deepak Srivastava

Mapping the gene-regulatory networks dysregulated in human disease would allow the design of network-correcting therapies that treat the core disease mechanism. However, small molecules are traditionally screened for their effects on one to several outputs at most, biasing discovery and limiting the likelihood of true disease-modifying drug candidates. Here, we developed a machine-learning approach to identify small molecules that broadly correct gene networks dysregulated in a human induced pluripotent stem cell (iPSC) disease model of a common form of heart disease involving the aortic valve (AV). Gene network correction by the most efficacious therapeutic candidate, XCT790, generalized to patient-derived primary AV cells and was sufficient to prevent and treat AV disease in vivo in a mouse model. This strategy, made feasible by human iPSC technology, network analysis, and machine learning, may represent an effective path for drug discovery.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbereabd0724
Number of pages33
JournalScience
Volume371
Issue number6530
DOIs
StatePublished - 12 Feb 2021

    Research areas

  • Algorithms, Animals, Aortic Valve/drug effects, Aortic Valve Disease/drug therapy, Aortic Valve Stenosis/drug therapy, Calcinosis/drug therapy, Disease Models, Animal, Drug Discovery, Drug Evaluation, Preclinical, Gene Expression Regulation/drug effects, Gene Regulatory Networks/drug effects, Haploinsufficiency, Humans, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Machine Learning, Mice, Inbred C57BL, Nitriles/pharmacology, RNA-Seq, Receptor, Notch1/genetics, Small Molecule Libraries, Thiazoles/pharmacology

    Scopus subject areas

  • General

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