UMMS Affiliation

Program in Systems Biology

Publication Date

2012-01-31

Document Type

Article

Subjects

Apoptosis; Cellular Microenvironment; Computational Biology; DNA Damage; Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases; G1 Phase Cell Cycle Checkpoints; Humans; Models, Biological; Models, Theoretical; Signal Transduction; Stress, Physiological; Systems Biology; Tumor Cells, Cultured; Validation Studies as Topic

Disciplines

Biochemistry | Cell Biology | Computational Biology | Molecular Biology | Systems Biology

Abstract

Following DNA damage, cells display complex multi-pathway signaling dynamics that connect cell-cycle arrest and DNA repair in G1, S, or G2/M phase with phenotypic fate decisions made between survival, cell-cycle re-entry and proliferation, permanent cell-cycle arrest, or cell death. How these phenotypic fate decisions are determined remains poorly understood, but must derive from integrating genotoxic stress signals together with inputs from the local microenvironment. To investigate this in a systematic manner, we undertook a quantitative time-resolved cell signaling and phenotypic response study in U2OS cells receiving doxorubicin-induced DNA damage in the presence or absence of TNFalpha co-treatment; we measured key nodes in a broad set of DNA damage signal transduction pathways along with apoptotic death and cell-cycle regulatory responses. Two relational modeling approaches were then used to identify network-level relationships between signals and cell phenotypic events: a partial least squares regression approach and a complementary new technique which we term 'time-interval stepwise regression.' Taken together, the results from these analysis methods revealed complex, cytokine-modulated inter-relationships among multiple signaling pathways following DNA damage, and identified an unexpected context-dependent role for Erk in both G1/S arrest and apoptotic cell death following treatment with this commonly used clinical chemotherapeutic drug.

Keywords

Apoptosis, Cell‐Cycle Checkpoint, DNA Damage, Erk, Signal Transduction

Rights and Permissions

Copyright 2012 EMBO and Macmillan Publishers Limited

Molecular Systems Biology is an open-access journal published by European Molecular Biology Organization and Nature Publishing Group. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.

DOI of Published Version

10.1038/msb.2012.1

Source

Tentner AR, Lee MJ, Ostheimer GJ, Samson LD, Lauffenburger DA, Yaffe MB. Combined experimental and computational analysis of DNA damage signaling reveals context-dependent roles for Erk in apoptosis and G1/S arrest after genotoxic stress. Mol Syst Biol. 2012 Jan 31;8:568. doi: 10.1038/msb.2012.1. Link to article on publisher's site

Journal/Book/Conference Title

Molecular systems biology

Comments

At the time of publication, Michael J. Lee was not yet affiliated with the University of Massachusetts Medical School.

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Link to Article in PubMed

PubMed ID

22294094

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