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ArticleJournal of cell science2010

Physiological levels of TNFalpha stimulation induce stochastic dynamics of NF-kappaB responses in single living cells.

David A Turner, Pawel Paszek, Dan J Woodcock, David E Nelson, Caroline A Horton, Yunjiao Wang, David G Spiller, David A Rand, Michael R H White, Claire V Harper

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Article in Journal of cell science, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 73 papers.

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73citing papers in PubMed
3.0field-weighted citation impact, top 8% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

73 citing papers in PubMed, 114 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David A TurnerCentre for Cell Imaging, School of Biological Sciences, Bioscience Research Building, Liverpool, UK.
Pawel Paszek
Dan J Woodcock
David E Nelson
Caroline A Horton
Yunjiao Wang
David G Spiller
David A Rand
Michael R H White
Claire V Harper
University of Warwick · GBUniversity of Manchester · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBD0088081Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBD0107481Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBF00561X1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F005814/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBF0058141Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/F005938/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBF0059381Medical Research Council G0500346
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nuclear factor kappa B (NF-kappaB) signalling is activated by cellular stress and inflammation and regulates cytokine expression. We applied single-cell imaging to investigate dynamic responses to different doses of tumour necrosis factor alpha (TNFalpha). Lower doses activated fewer cells and those responding showed an increasingly variable delay in the initial NF-kappaB nuclear translocation and associated IkappaBalpha degradation. Robust 100 minute nuclear:cytoplasmic NF-kappaB oscillations were observed over a wide range of TNFalpha concentrations. The result is supported by computational analyses, which identified a limit cycle in the system with a stable 100 minute period over a range of stimuli, and indicated no co-operativity in the pathway activation. These results suggest that a stochastic threshold controls functional all-or-nothing responses in individual cells. Deterministic and stochastic models simulated the experimentally observed activation threshold and gave rise to new predictions about the structure of the system and open the way for better mechanistic understanding of physiological TNFalpha activation of inflammatory responses in cells and tissues.

Indexed as

Cell Line, TumorDose-Response Relationship, DrugGene ExpressionHumansI-kappa B ProteinsMicroscopy, ConfocalModels, BiologicalNF-kappa BNF-KappaB Inhibitor alphaSignal TransductionStochastic ProcessesTranscriptional ActivationTranscription Factor RelATranscription, GeneticTransfectionTumor Necrosis Factor-alphaI-kappa B ProteinsNF-kappa BNF-KappaB Inhibitor alphaNFKBIA protein, humanRELA protein, humanTranscription Factor RelATumor Necrosis Factor-alpha

Identifiers

PMID20663918
PMCPMC2915884
OpenAlexW2157307003

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