From functional genomics to functional immunomics: New challenges, old problems, big rewards

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作者
Braga-Neto, Ulisses M. [1 ]
Marques, Ernesto T. A., Jr.
机构
[1] Fiocruz MS, Virol & Expt Therapy Lab, Aggeu Magalhaes Res Ctr, CPqAM, Recife, PE, Brazil
[2] Johns Hopkins Univ, Sch Med, Dept Med, Div Infect Dis, Baltimore, MD USA
[3] Johns Hopkins Univ, Sch Med, Dept Pharmacol & Mol Sci, Baltimore, MD USA
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10.1371/journal.pcbi.0020081
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Q5 [生物化学];
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071010 ; 081704 ;
摘要
The development of DNA microarray technology a decade ago led to the establishment of functional genomics as one of the most active and successful scientific disciplines today. With the ongoing development of immunomic microarray technology-a spatially addressable, large-scale technology for measurement of specific immunological response-the new challenge of functional immunomics is emerging, which bears similarities to but is also significantly different from functional genomics. Immunonic data has been successfully used to identify biological markers involved in autoimmune diseases, allergies, viral infections such as human immunodefficiency virus (HIV), influenza, diabetes, and responses to cancer vaccines. This review intends to provide a coherent vision of this nascent scientific field, and speculate on future research directions. We discuss at some length issues such as epitope prediction, immunomic microarray technology and its applications, and computation and statistical challenges related to functional immunomics. Based on the recent discovery of regulation mechanisms in T cell responses, we envision the use of immunomic microarrays as a tool for advances in systems biology of cellular immune responses, by means of immunomic regulatory network models.
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