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ArticleCancer research2011

Comparing signaling networks between normal and transformed hepatocytes using discrete logical models.

Julio Saez-Rodriguez, Leonidas G Alexopoulos, Mingsheng Zhang, Melody K Morris, Douglas A Lauffenburger, Peter K Sorger

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Article in Cancer research, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 69 papers.

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69 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Julio Saez-RodriguezCenter for Cell Decision Processes, Department of Systems Biology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA.
Leonidas G Alexopoulos
Mingsheng Zhang
Melody K Morris
Douglas A Lauffenburger
Peter K Sorger

Funding

Systems Biology of Cell Decision ProcessesP50GM068762 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI YAFFE, MICHAEL B · 2003 to 2012
$32.3M
Tumor Cell Networks CenterU54CA112967 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LAUFFENBURGER, DOUGLAS A · 2004 to 2015
$26.2M
NCI NIH HHS CA112967NCI NIH HHS U54 CA112967NIGMS NIH HHS GM68762NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM068762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Substantial effort in recent years has been devoted to constructing and analyzing large-scale gene and protein networks on the basis of "omic" data and literature mining. These interaction graphs provide valuable insight into the topologies of complex biological networks but are rarely context specific and cannot be used to predict the responses of cell signaling proteins to specific ligands or drugs. Conversely, traditional approaches to analyzing cell signaling are narrow in scope and cannot easily make use of network-level data. Here, we combine network analysis and functional experimentation by using a hybrid approach in which graphs are converted into simple mathematical models that can be trained against biochemical data. Specifically, we created Boolean logic models of immediate-early signaling in liver cells by training a literature-based prior knowledge network against biochemical data obtained from primary human hepatocytes and 4 hepatocellular carcinoma cell lines exposed to combinations of cytokines and small-molecule kinase inhibitors. Distinct families of models were recovered for each cell type, and these families clustered topologically into normal and diseased sets.

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Models, BiologicalSignal TransductionCell Line, TransformedCell Line, TumorHepatocytesHumans

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PMID21742771
PMCPMC3207250

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