Nature Communications (Mar 2021)

Identification of disease treatment mechanisms through the multiscale interactome

  • Camilo Ruiz,
  • Marinka Zitnik,
  • Jure Leskovec

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-21770-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Most diseases disrupt multiple proteins, and drugs treat such diseases by restoring the functions of the disrupted proteins; how drugs restore these functions, however, is often unknown. Here, the authors develop the multiscale interactome, a powerful approach to explain disease treatment.