Evidence map›Paper›PMID 26905425›Full record

ArticleScience signaling2016

Endothelial cells decode VEGF-mediated Ca2+ signaling patterns to produce distinct functional responses.

David P Noren, Wesley H Chou, Sung Hoon Lee, Amina A Qutub, Aryeh Warmflash, Daniel S Wagner, Aleksander S Popel, Andre Levchenko

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Article in Science signaling, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 56 papers.

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56citing papers in PubMed
6.8field-weighted citation impact, top 3% 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

56 citing papers in PubMed, 100 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

8 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

David P NorenDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. Department of Bioengineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Wesley H ChouDepartment of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Sung Hoon LeeYale Systems Biology Institute and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, 850 West Campus Drive, West Haven, CT 06516, USA.
Amina A QutubDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Aryeh WarmflashDepartment of Bioengineering, Rice University, 6100 Main Street, Houston, TX 77005, USA. Department of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Daniel S WagnerDepartment of Biosciences, Rice University, Houston, TX 77005, USA.
Aleksander S PopelDepartment of Biomedical Engineering, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, 720 Rutland Avenue, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA. andre.levchenko@yale.edu apopel@jhu.edu.
Andre LevchenkoYale Systems Biology Institute and Department of Biomedical Engineering, Yale University, 850 West Campus Drive, West Haven, CT 06516, USA. andre.levchenko@yale.edu apopel@jhu.edu.
Rice University · USJohns Hopkins University · US

Funding

TCP5: ACTIVE SITE LABELING REAGENT FOR ACETYLTRANSFERASESU54RR020839 · NCRR · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI BOEKE, JEF D · 2004 to 2011
$27.4M
Systems Biology of Angiogenesis in Peripheral Arterial DiseaseR01HL101200 · NHLBI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI POPEL, ALEKSANDER S. · 2010 to 2022
$10.7M
Predictive experiment-based multiscale models of the tumor immune microenvironment and immunotherapy in breast cancerR01CA138264 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI POPEL, ALEKSANDER S. · 2009 to 2023
$8.1M
GENOMIC IMPRINTING IN CANCERR01CA065145 · NCI · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LEVCHENKO, ANDRE · 1994 to 2011
$5.8M
Information tranfer in NF-kappaB and MAPK pathwaysR01GM072024 · NIGMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI LEVCHENKO, ANDRE · 2004 to 2019
$3.9M
An Integrative Analysis of MAPK Signaling in Budding YeastR01GM084332 · NIGMS · JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY · PI LEVCHENKO, ANDRE · 2008 to 2011
$1.2M
NCI NIH HHS CA65145NCI NIH HHS R01 CA065145NCI NIH HHS R01 CA138264NCRR NIH HHS RR020839NCRR NIH HHS RR140073NCRR NIH HHS U54 RR020839NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL101200NIGMS NIH HHS GM072024NIGMS NIH HHS GM084332NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM072024NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM084332
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A single extracellular stimulus can promote diverse behaviors among isogenic cells by differentially regulated signaling networks. We examined Ca(2+) signaling in response to VEGF (vascular endothelial growth factor), a growth factor that can stimulate different behaviors in endothelial cells. We found that altering the amount of VEGF signaling in endothelial cells by stimulating them with different VEGF concentrations triggered distinct and mutually exclusive dynamic Ca(2+) signaling responses that correlated with different cellular behaviors. These behaviors were cell proliferation involving the transcription factor NFAT (nuclear factor of activated T cells) and cell migration involving MLCK (myosin light chain kinase). Further analysis suggested that this signal decoding was robust to the noisy nature of the signal input. Using probabilistic modeling, we captured both the stochastic and deterministic aspects of Ca(2+) signal decoding and accurately predicted cell responses in VEGF gradients, which we used to simulate different amounts of VEGF signaling. Ca(2+) signaling patterns associated with proliferation and migration were detected during angiogenesis in developing zebrafish.

Indexed as

AnimalsCalcium SignalingHumansHuman Umbilical Vein Endothelial CellsMyosin-Light-Chain KinaseNeovascularization, PhysiologicNFATC Transcription FactorsVascular Endothelial Growth Factor AZebrafishZebrafish ProteinsMyosin-Light-Chain KinaseNFATC Transcription FactorsVascular Endothelial Growth Factor AVegfaa protein, zebrafishVEGFA protein, humanZebrafish Proteins

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PMID26905425
PMCPMC5301990
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