Evidence map›Paper›PMID 22579283›Full record

ArticleCell2012

Sequential application of anticancer drugs enhances cell death by rewiring apoptotic signaling networks.

Michael J Lee, Albert S Ye, Alexandra K Gardino, Anne Margriet Heijink, Peter K Sorger, Gavin MacBeath, Michael B Yaffe

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Article in Cell, 2012. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 361 papers.

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361citing papers in PubMed
32.4field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

361 citing papers in PubMed, 694 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Michael J LeeDepartment of Biology, David H. Koch Institute for Integrative Cancer Research, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Albert S Ye
Alexandra K Gardino
Anne Margriet Heijink
Peter K Sorger
Gavin MacBeath
Michael B Yaffe
Massachusetts Institute of Technology · USCenter for Systems Biology · US

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
Protein Kinase Signaling and Cell Cycle ControlR01ES015339 · NIEHS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI YAFFE, MICHAEL B · 2007 to 2017
$4.3M
NCI NIH HHS CA112967NCI NIH HHS U54 CA112967NIEHS NIH HHS ES015339NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES015339NIGMS NIH HHS GM68762NIGMS NIH HHS P50 GM068762
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Crosstalk and complexity within signaling pathways and their perturbation by oncogenes limit component-by-component approaches to understanding human disease. Network analysis of how normal and oncogenic signaling can be rewired by drugs may provide opportunities to target tumors with high specificity and efficacy. Using targeted inhibition of oncogenic signaling pathways, combined with DNA-damaging chemotherapy, we report that time-staggered EGFR inhibition, but not simultaneous coadministration, dramatically sensitizes a subset of triple-negative breast cancer cells to genotoxic drugs. Systems-level analysis-using high-density time-dependent measurements of signaling networks, gene expression profiles, and cell phenotypic responses in combination with mathematical modeling-revealed an approach for altering the intrinsic state of the cell through dynamic rewiring of oncogenic signaling pathways. This process converts these cells to a less tumorigenic state that is more susceptible to DNA damage-induced cell death by reactivation of an extrinsic apoptotic pathway whose function is suppressed in the oncogene-addicted state.

Indexed as

ApoptosisSignal TransductionAntineoplastic AgentsBreast NeoplasmsCaspase 8Cell Line, TumorDNA DamageDrug Therapy, CombinationErbB ReceptorsFemaleHumansMetabolic Networks and PathwaysModels, BiologicalAntineoplastic AgentsCaspase 8EGFR protein, humanErbB Receptors

Identifiers

PMID22579283
PMCPMC3501264
OpenAlexW2123183032

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