THAI NGUYEN UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF AGRICULTURE AND FORESTRY NGUYEN THI QUYNH LAM IDENTIFYING THE EFFECT OF EXPOSURE TO DIOXIN AND FURAN ON HUMAN HEALTH LEADING TO DIFFUSE LARGE B LYMPHOMA THROUGH GENE-NETWORK CONSTRUCTION BACHELOR THESIS Study Mode: Full-time Major: Environmental Science and Management Faculty: International Programs Office Batch: 2013 - 2017 Thai Nguyen, December 2017 DOCUMENTATION PAGE WITH ABSTRACT Thai Nguyen University of Agriculture and Forestry Degree Program Bachelor of Environmental Science and Management Student name Nguyen Thi Quynh Lam Student ID DTN1353110372 Identifying the effect of exposure to dioxin and furans on Thesis Title human health leading to diffuse large B lymphoma through gene-network construction Supervisor(s) Prof. ChunYu Chuang, Assoc. Tran Thi Thu Ha Abstract: Many studies indicated that exposure to dioxins and dioxins – compounds (e., 2,3,7,8 tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans (furans) can induce several outcomes on human and animal in the long term period, and one of them is diffuse large B lymphoma which is considered as the most popular kind of lymphoma. In order to identify the gene expression altered by TCDD and Furans potentially underlying DLBCL development, bioinformatics meta-analysis was applied in this study.
In this study, 10 datasets containing the information of gene expression of DLBCL, TCDD and Furans were obtained from Gene Expression Omnibus (GEO) and Array Express websites, and further analyzed using Cytoscape software and its plugins – ClueGO and CluePedia. As a result, the most differentially expressed genes were found to construct gene- networks of DLBCL, TCDD and furans and hence the potential pathway presented how dioxins could cause the progress of lymphoma. In addition, the analytical result i reported that TCDD and furans have a possibility to induce the receptor AhR which promotes the appearance of protein TWIST1 and enhance the progress of DLBCL. The result of this study has made a great contribution for further dioxins study, and it is also considered as the initial steps of future work for DLBCL diagnosis and treatment.
Keywords: TCDD, Furans, DBLCL, bioinformatics, GEO, Array Express Number of pages: 87 Date of Submission: 20/09/2017 Supervisor’s signature ii ACKNOWLEDGEMENT First of all, I would like to use this opportunity to express my deepest gratitude and special thanks to Prof. Chun-Yu Chuang for her patient to guide and keep me on the correct path and show me many of wonderful things during the time of my internship at the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Science at National Tsing Hua University. I would like to express my deep thanks to Assoc. Tran Thi Thu Ha for giving me necessary advices and guidance in order to complete my thesis.
My sincere thanks are also given to all the members working in the Department of Biomedical Engineering and Environmental Science for supporting me all the materials and necessities when conducting experiments for my research. Finally, I would like to thank my family and my friends encouraging me and advising me during completion of this thesis. Thai Nguyen, October 2017 Nguyen Thi Quynh Lam iii TABLE OF CONTENTS ACKNOWLEDGEMENT. iii TABLE OF CONTENTS.
iv LIST OF FIGURES. vii LIST OF TABLES. viii LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS. Persistent Organic Compounds (POPs).
Dioxins and dioxin – liked compounds. Lymphoma and non – Hodgkin lymphoma. Diffuse large B lymphoma. SNPs of Diffuse Large B lymphoma.
Gene - network components. Gene network database: Array Express and GEO. Gene Network construction tools. Network Analyst website.
Cytoscape software and plugins: ClueGO and CluePedia Apps. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION. Differentially genes expression. Gene-network construction of DLBCL, TCDD and Furans.
Protein – protein interaction network of DLBCL, TCDD and Furans. Potential pathway showing the relation between TCDD and Furans and Diffuse Large B lymphoma. AhR – mediated key factor of dioxins – like compounds. Key factors of hypoxia response and the risk of MYC – TP53 interaction.
Inhibition of cancer cell apoptosis and tumorigenesis factor in DLBCL. Differentially expressed genes of DLBCL versus normal cell. Differentially expressed genes of exposure to TCDD group and versus control group. Differentially expressed genes of exposure to FURANS group versus control group.
Hub proteins of DLBCL network .