Mining Alzheimer's Interactomes, Macromolecular Complexes and Pathways
for drug discovery
Abstract
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder
that leads to dementia. Many cases are diagnosed annually and there is
no currently available cure. Understanding the underlying disease
biology of AD through the study of molecular networks, particularly by
mapping clinical variants to tissue-specific interactomes and regulatory
macromolecular assemblies, offers a promising avenue to elucidate
altered disease pathways. This, in turn, could provide valuable insights
for drug discovery. In this study, we leverage our manually curated
AD-specific dataset from the IMEx consortium, which provides detailed
interaction data, including the relationship between interacting
partners, detection in specific host tissues and cell lines, and the
impact of variants on interaction outcomes. By integrating these data
with information on protein complex composition taken from the Complex
Portal, we have identified relevant macromolecular assemblies enriched
in AD networks. Further pathway enrichment analysis is conducted using
Reactome, enabling a comprehensive exploration of disease mechanisms and
potential therapeutic targets.