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ArticleScience signaling2013

Profiles of Basal and stimulated receptor signaling networks predict drug response in breast cancer lines.

Mario Niepel, Marc Hafner, Emily A Pace, Mirra Chung, Diana H Chai, Lili Zhou, Birgit Schoeberl, Peter K Sorger

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Article in Science signaling, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 61 papers.

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61citing papers in PubMed
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61 citing papers in PubMed, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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5 · Who and what money

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8 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Mario Niepel *HMS LINCS Center Department of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Marc Hafner *HMS LINCS Center Department of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Emily A Pace *Merrimack Pharmaceuticals Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Mirra ChungHMS LINCS Center Department of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Diana H ChaiMerrimack Pharmaceuticals Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Lili ZhouHMS LINCS Center Department of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Birgit SchoeberlMerrimack Pharmaceuticals Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.
Peter K SorgerHMS LINCS Center Department of Systems Biology Harvard Medical School Boston, Massachusetts 02115, USA.
Merrimack Pharmaceuticals (United States) · US

Funding

Tumor Cell Networks CenterU54CA112967 · NCI · MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LAUFFENBURGER, DOUGLAS A · 2004 to 2015
$26.2M
Pharmaco Response Signatures and Disease MechanismU54HG006097 · NHGRI · HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL · PI MITCHISON, TIMOTHY J, SORGER, PETER KARL · 2010 to 2013
$9.7M
NCI NIH HHS CA112967NCI NIH HHS U54 CA112967NHGRI NIH HHS U54 HG006097NHGRI NIH HHS U54-HG006097
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Identifying factors responsible for variation in drug response is essential for the effective use of targeted therapeutics. We profiled signaling pathway activity in a collection of breast cancer cell lines before and after stimulation with physiologically relevant ligands, which revealed the variability in network activity among cells of known genotype and molecular subtype. Despite the receptor-based classification of breast cancer subtypes, we found that the abundance and activity of signaling proteins in unstimulated cells (basal profile), as well as the activity of proteins in stimulated cells (signaling profile), varied within each subtype. Using a partial least-squares regression approach, we constructed models that significantly predicted sensitivity to 23 targeted therapeutics. For example, one model showed that the response to the growth factor receptor ligand heregulin effectively predicted the sensitivity of cells to drugs targeting the cell survival pathway mediated by PI3K (phosphoinositide 3-kinase) and Akt, whereas the abundance of Akt or the mutational status of the enzymes in the pathway did not. Thus, basal and signaling protein profiles may yield new biomarkers of drug sensitivity and enable the identification of appropriate therapies in cancers characterized by similar functional dysregulation of signaling networks.

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Biomarkers, TumorBreast NeoplasmsGene Expression Regulation, NeoplasticReceptors, Growth FactorSignal TransductionAntineoplastic AgentsCell Line, TumorFemaleGene Expression ProfilingHumansMutationNeuregulin-1Phosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktAntineoplastic AgentsBiomarkers, TumorNeuregulin-1NRG1 protein, humanPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasesProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktReceptors, Growth Factor

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PMID24065145
PMCPMC3845839
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