ToxSci Advance Access originally published online on October 16, 2006
Toxicological Sciences 2007 95(1):182-187; doi:10.1093/toxsci/kfl131
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Chemical Genomic Profiling for Identifying Intracellular Targets of Toxicants Producing Parkinson's Disease

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* The Parkinson's Institute, Sunnyvale, California 94087
Stanford Genome Technology Center, California 940304
University of Toronto Donnelley Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research, Toronto, Ontario M5S 3E1, Canada
1 To whom correspondence should be addressed at The Parkinson's Institute, 1170 Morse Ave., Sunnyvale, CA 94087. Fax: (408) 734-8522. E-mail: jdoostzadeh{at}thepi.org.
Received June 19, 2006; accepted October 5, 2006
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The yeast deletion collection includes
4700 strains deleted for both copies of every nonessential gene. This collection is a powerful resource for identifying the cellular pathways that functionally interact with drugs. In the present study, the complete pool of
4700 barcoded homozygous deletion strains of Saccharomyces cerevisiae were surveyed to identify genes/pathways interacting with 1-methyl-4-phenylpyridinium (MPP+) and N,N-dimethyl-4-4-bipiridinium (paraquat), neurotoxicants that can produce Parkinson's disease. Each yeast mutant is molecularly "barcoded" the collections can be grown competitively and ranked for sensitivity by microarray hybridization. Analysis data from these screens allowed us to determine that the multivesicular body pathway is an important element of toxicity induced by both MPP+ and paraquat. When yeast genes that when deleted showed sensitivity to MPP+ and paraquat toxicity were analyzed for their homology to human genes, 80% were found to have highly conserved human homologs (with e < 108). Future work will address if these human genes may also functionally interact with MPP+ and paraquat toxicity.
Key Words: chemogenomics; neurotoxicants; Parkinson's disease.
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