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ArticleMolecular systems biology2020

Patient-specific logic models of signaling pathways from screenings on cancer biopsies to prioritize personalized combination therapies.

Federica Eduati, Patricia Jaaks, Jessica Wappler, Thorsten Cramer, Christoph A Merten, Mathew J Garnett, Julio Saez-Rodriguez

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Article in Molecular systems biology, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 47 papers.

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7 authors.

Federica EduatiEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7822-3867
Patricia JaaksWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Jessica WapplerDepartment Surgery, Molecular Tumor Biology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.
Thorsten CramerDepartment Surgery, Molecular Tumor Biology, RWTH University Hospital, Aachen, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-6462-239X
Christoph A MertenEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL), Genome Biology Unit, Heidelberg, Germany.
Mathew J GarnettWellcome Trust Sanger Institute, Hinxton, UK.
Julio Saez-RodriguezEuropean Molecular Biology Laboratory, European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI), Hinxton, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-8552-8976

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Mechanistic modeling of signaling pathways mediating patient-specific response to therapy can help to unveil resistance mechanisms and improve therapeutic strategies. Yet, creating such models for patients, in particular for solid malignancies, is challenging. A major hurdle to build these models is the limited material available that precludes the generation of large-scale perturbation data. Here, we present an approach that couples ex vivo high-throughput screenings of cancer biopsies using microfluidics with logic-based modeling to generate patient-specific dynamic models of extrinsic and intrinsic apoptosis signaling pathways. We used the resulting models to investigate heterogeneity in pancreatic cancer patients, showing dissimilarities especially in the PI3K-Akt pathway. Variation in model parameters reflected well the different tumor stages. Finally, we used our dynamic models to efficaciously predict new personalized combinatorial treatments. Our results suggest that our combination of microfluidic experiments and mathematical model can be a novel tool toward cancer precision medicine.

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AnimalsAntineoplastic AgentsBiopsyCell Line, TumorCell SurvivalDrug Screening Assays, AntitumorFemaleGenetic HeterogeneityHumansLogistic ModelsMiceMicrofluidic Analytical TechniquesPancreatic NeoplasmsPatient-Specific ModelingPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinasePrecision MedicineAntineoplastic AgentsPhosphatidylinositol 3-KinaseProto-Oncogene Proteins c-aktdrug combinationslogic modelingpatient-specific modelsprecision oncologysignaling pathways

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PMID32073727
PMCPMC7029724

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