
Systems Immunology and Infection Microbiology
- 1st Edition - March 16, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Bor-Sen Chen
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 9 8 3 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 7 3 3 5 - 0
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Request a sales quoteSystems Immunology and Infection Microbiology provides a large amount of biological system models, diagrams and flowcharts to illustrate development procedures and help users understand the results of systems immunology and infection microbiology. Chapters discuss systems immunology, systems infection microbiology, systematic inflammation and immune responses in restoration and regeneration process, systems' innate and adaptive immunity in infection process, systematic genetic and epigenetic pathogenic/defensive mechanism during bacterial infection on human cells is introduced, and the systematic genetic and epigenetic pathogenic/defensive mechanisms during viral infection on human cells.
This book provides new big data-driven and systems-driven systems immunology and infection microbiology to researchers applying systems biology and bioinformatics in their work. It is also invaluable to several members of biomedical field who are interested in learning more about those approaches.
- Encompasses one applicable example in every chapter to illustrate the solution procedure from big data mining, network modeling, host/pathogen cross-talk detection, drug target identification and systems drug design
- Presents flowcharts to represent the development procedure of systematic immunology and infection in a very clear format
- Contains 100 color diagrams to help readers understand the related biological networks, their corresponding mechanisms, and significant network biomarkers for therapeutic drug design
Graduate students; researchers on systems biology, bioinformatics, immunology and microbiology
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Chapter 1. Introduction to systems immunology and infection microbiology
- Abstract
- 1.1 Introduction
- 1.2 Content and general outline of the book
- Part I: Systems Immunology
- Chapter 2. Biological network modeling and system identification in systems immunology and infection microbiology
- Abstract
- 2.1 System identification for gene regulatory network
- 2.2 System identification of protein–protein interaction network
- 2.3 System identification of integrated genetic and epigenetic network via high throughput next generation sequencing data
- 2.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 3. Identifying the gene regulatory network of systems inflammation in humans by system dynamic model via microarray data and database mining
- Abstract
- 3.1 Introduction
- 3.2 Construction of candidate inflammatory gene regulatory network in response to inflammatory stimulus
- 3.3 Pruning the candidate gene regulatory network via a dynamic gene regulatory model
- 3.4 On the construction of inflammatory gene regulatory network in immune system
- 3.5 Biological insight and discussion
- 3.6 Conclusion
- 3.7 Material and methods
- 3.8 Appendix
- Chapter 4. Dynamic cross-talk analysis among signaling transduction pathways in the vascular endothelial inflammatory response system of humans
- Abstract
- 4.1 Introduction
- 4.2 Methods of constructing cross talks among signaling pathways in inflammation
- 4.3 Signaling transduction, signaling pathways, and their cross talks in inflammatory response
- 4.4 Discussion
- 4.5 Conclusion
- 4.6 Appendix: Supplementary methods
- Part II: Systems Infection Microbiology
- Chapter 5. Prediction of infection-associated genes via a cellular molecular network approach: A Candida albicans infection case study
- Abstract
- 5.1 Introduction
- 5.2 Methods of constructing cellular molecular networks in Candida albicans infection
- 5.3 Infection-associated genes via cellular molecular network approach
- 5.4 Discussion and conclusion
- 5.5 Appendix
- Chapter 6. Global screening of potential Candida albicans biofilm-related transcription factors by network comparison via big database mining and genome-wide microarray data identification
- Abstract
- 6.1 Introduction
- 6.2 Systems methods of screening biofilm-related transcription factors
- 6.3 Potential Candida albicans biofilm-related transcription factors
- 6.4 Discussion
- 6.5 Conclusion
- 6.6 Appendix
- Chapter 7. Identification of infection- and defense-related genes through dynamic host–pathogen interaction network
- Abstract
- 7.1 Introduction
- 7.2 Material and methods of constructing host–pathogen interaction network in Candida albicans–zebrafish infection
- 7.3 Pathogenic/offensive mechanism between Candida albicans and zebrafish in infection process
- 7.4 Discussion
- 7.5 Conclusion
- 7.6 Appendix
- Chapter 8. Host–pathogen protein–protein interaction network for Candida albican pathogenesis and zebrafish redox process through dynamic interspecies interaction model and two-sided genome-wide microarray data
- Abstract
- 8.1 Introduction
- 8.2 Construction of host/pathogen protein–protein interaction network
- 8.3 Host/pathogen protein–protein interaction network during the infection process of Candida albicans
- 8.4 Discussion
- 8.5 Conclusion
- Chapter 9. Essential functional modules for pathogenic and defensive mechanisms via host/pathogen crosstalk network by database mining and two-sided microarray data identification
- Abstract
- 9.1 Introduction
- 9.2 Material and methods
- 9.3 Essential functional modules for pathogenic and defensive mechanisms
- 9.4 Discussion
- 9.5 Conclusion
- 9.6 Appendix
- Part III: Systematic Inflammation and Immune Response in Restoration and Regeneration Process
- Chapter 10. The role of inflammation and immune response in cerebella wound-healing mechanism after traumatic injury in zebrafish
- Abstract
- 10.1 Introduction
- 10.2 Materials and methods for constructing protein–protein interaction network of cerebellar wound-healing process in zebrafishes
- 10.3 The role of inflammation and immune response in the cerebellar wound-healing process
- 10.4 Discussion and conclusion
- 10.5 Appendix
- Chapter 11. Key immune molecular biomarkers in the pathomechanisms of early cardioembolic stroke: Multidatabase mining and systems biology approach
- Abstract
- 11.1 Introduction
- 11.2 Immune events in pathomechanisms of early cardioembolic stroke
- 11.3 Material and methods of PPI network construction and principle network projection
- 11.4 Conclusion
- 11.5 Appendix
- Part IV: Systems Innate and Adaptive Immunity in the Infection Process
- Chapter 12. Cross-talk network biomarkers of pathogen–host interaction network from innate to adaptive immunity
- Abstract
- 12.1 Introduction
- 12.2 Material and methods
- 12.3 Investigating PH-PPINs for cross-talk network markers from innate to adaptive immunity
- 12.4 Discussion and conclusion
- Chapter 13. The coordination of defensive and offensive molecular mechanisms in the innate and adaptive host–pathogen interaction networks
- Abstract
- 13.1 Introduction
- 13.2 Materials and methods to coordinate defensive molecular mechanisms in innate and adaptive host–pathogen networks
- 13.3 Defensive and offensive molecular mechanisms based on the innate and adaptive HP-PPINs
- 13.4 Discussion
- 13.5 Appendix
- Chapter 14. The significant signaling pathways and their cellular functions in innate and adaptive immune responses during infection process
- Abstract
- 14.1 Introduction of innate and adaptive immune systems
- 14.2 Materials and methods
- 14.3 Investigating the defense/offensive strategies of innate and adaptive immunity
- 14.4 The roles of significant signaling pathways in the innate and adaptive immune responses
- 14.5 Conclusion
- 14.6 Appendix
- Part V: Systematic Genetic and Epigenetic Pathogenic/ Defensive Mechanism During Bacterial Infection on Human Cells
- Chapter 15. Genetic-and-epigenetic host/pathogen networks for cross-talk mechanisms in human macrophages and dendritic cells during Mtb infection
- Abstract
- 15.1 Introduction to tuberculosis infected by Mycobacterium tuberculosis
- 15.2 Materials and methods for constructing cross-talk GWGEINs and their core networks
- 15.3 Investigating pathogenic/host defense mechanism to identify drug targets
- 15.4 Conclusion
- Chapter 16. Investigating the host/pathogen cross-talk mechanism during Clostridium difficile infection for drug targets by constructing genetic-and-epigenetic interspecies networks using systems biology method
- Abstract
- 16.1 Introduction
- 16.2 Materials and methods
- 16.3 Investigating the cross-talk mechanism by constructing the genetic-and-epigenetic interspecies network
- 16.4 Discussion and conclusion
- Chapter 17. Investigating the common pathogenic mechanism for drug design between different strains of Candida albicans infection in OKF6/TERT-2 cells by comparing their genetic and epigenetic host/pathogen networks: Big data mining and computational systems biology approaches
- Abstract
- 17.1 Introduction
- 17.2 Materials and methods
- 17.3 Investigating pathogenic mechanism of C. albicans infection by comparing genetic and epigenetic interspecies networks
- 17.4 Discussion
- 17.5 Conclusion
- 17.6 Appendix
- Part VI: Systematic Genetic and Epigenetic Pathogen/Defensive Mechanism and Systems Drug Design in Viral Infection on Human Cells
- Chapter 18. Constructing host/pathogen genetic-and-epigenetic networks for investigating molecular mechanisms to identify drug targets in the infection of Epstein–Barr virus via big data mining and genome-wide NGS data identification
- Abstract
- 18.1 Introduction
- 18.2 Materials and methods
- 18.3 Investigating interspecies molecular mechanisms for human B lymphocytes infected with Epstein–Barr virus
- 18.4 HVCNs at the first and second infection stage in the lytic phase of B cells infected with EBV
- 18.5 HVCPs at the first and second infection stage during the lytic replication cycle
- 18.6 The transportation process of viral particles through host–virus cross-talk interactions at the second infection stage
- 18.7 Overview of the lytic infection molecular mechanism from the first to second infection stage in human B cells infected with EBV
- 18.8 Drug target proteins and multimolecule drug design
- 18.9 Discussion
- 18.10 Conclusion
- Chapter 19. Human immunodeficiency virus–human interaction networks investigating pathogenic mechanism via for drug discovery: A systems biology approach
- Abstract
- 19.1 Introduction
- 19.2 Investigate pathogenic mechanisms at different stages of human immunodeficiency virus infection
- 19.3 HIV/human interaction networks for multiple drug designs at three infection stages
- 19.4 Methods
- 19.5 Conclusion
- 19.6 Abbreviations
- 19.7 Appendix
- Chapter 20. Systems multiple-molecule drug design in infectious diseases: Drug-design specifications approach
- Abstract
- 20.1 Introduction
- 20.2 Systems drug-design method in infectious diseases
- 20.3 Discussion
- 20.4 Conclusion
- References
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: March 16, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 672
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128169834
- eBook ISBN: 9780128173350
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