Enabling population protein dynamics through Bayesian modeling

Bioinformatics. 2024 Aug 2;40(8):btae484. doi: 10.1093/bioinformatics/btae484.

Abstract

Motivation: The knowledge of protein dynamics, or turnover, in patients provides invaluable information related to certain diseases, drug efficacy, or biological processes. A great corpus of experimental and computational methods has been developed, including by us, in the case of human patients followed in vivo. Moving one step further, we propose a novel modeling approach to capture population protein dynamics using Bayesian methods.

Results: Using two datasets, we demonstrate that models inspired by population pharmacokinetics can accurately capture protein turnover within a cohort and account for inter-individual variability. Such models pave the way for comparative studies searching for altered dynamics or biomarkers in diseases.

Availability and implementation: R code and preprocessed data are available from zenodo.org. Raw data are available from panoramaweb.org.

Publication types

  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

MeSH terms

  • Bayes Theorem*
  • Computational Biology / methods
  • Humans
  • Proteins* / chemistry
  • Proteins* / metabolism

Substances

  • Proteins

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