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ArticleJournal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology2013

Simultaneous reconstruction of multiple signaling pathways via the prize-collecting steiner forest problem.

Nurcan Tuncbag, Alfredo Braunstein, Andrea Pagnani, Shao-Shan Carol Huang, Jennifer Chayes, Christian Borgs, Riccardo Zecchina, Ernest Fraenkel

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Article in Journal of computational biology : a journal of computational molecular cell biology, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 68 papers.

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8 authors.

Nurcan TuncbagDepartment of Biological Engineering, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, USA.
Alfredo Braunstein
Andrea Pagnani
Shao-Shan Carol Huang
Jennifer Chayes
Christian Borgs
Riccardo Zecchina
Ernest Fraenkel

Funding

Tumor Cell Networks CenterU54CA112967 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LAUFFENBURGER, DOUGLAS A · 2004 to 2015
$26.2M
A Systems Biology Approach to Reveal Huntington's Disease MechanismsR01GM089903 · NIGMS · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI FRAENKEL, ERNEST · 2010 to 2014
$2.4M
NCI NIH HHS U54CA112967NIGMS NIH HHS R01GM089903
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Signaling and regulatory networks are essential for cells to control processes such as growth, differentiation, and response to stimuli. Although many "omic" data sources are available to probe signaling pathways, these data are typically sparse and noisy. Thus, it has been difficult to use these data to discover the cause of the diseases and to propose new therapeutic strategies. We overcome these problems and use "omic" data to reconstruct simultaneously multiple pathways that are altered in a particular condition by solving the prize-collecting Steiner forest problem. To evaluate this approach, we use the well-characterized yeast pheromone response. We then apply the method to human glioblastoma data, searching for a forest of trees, each of which is rooted in a different cell-surface receptor. This approach discovers both overlapping and independent signaling pathways that are enriched in functionally and clinically relevant proteins, which could provide the basis for new therapeutic strategies. Although the algorithm was not provided with any information about the phosphorylation status of receptors, it identifies a small set of clinically relevant receptors among hundreds present in the interactome.

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AlgorithmsBrain NeoplasmsCell CommunicationGene Expression ProfilingGene Regulatory NetworksGlioblastomaHumansModels, BiologicalNeoplasm ProteinsPharmacogeneticsPheromonesProtein Interaction MappingReceptors, Cell SurfaceSaccharomyces cerevisiaeSignal TransductionNeoplasm ProteinsPheromonesReceptors, Cell Surface

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PMID23383998
PMCPMC3576906

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