Title
Model-based analysis of interferon-β induced signaling pathway
Abstract
Motivation: Interferon-β induced JAK-STAT signaling pathways contribute to mucosal immune recognition and an anti-viral state. Though the main molecular mechanisms constituting these pathways are known, neither the detailed structure of the regulatory network, nor its dynamics has yet been investigated. The objective of this work is to build a mathematical model for the pathway that would serve two purposes: (1) to reproduce experimental results in simulation of both early and late response to Interferon-β stimulation and (2) to explain experimental phenomena generating new hypotheses about regulatory mechanisms that cannot yet be tested experimentally. Results: Experimentally determined time dependent changes in the major components of this pathway were used to build a mathematical model describing pathway dynamics in the form of ordinary differential equations. The experimental results suggested existence of unknown negative control mechanisms that were tested numerically using the model. Together, experimental and numerical data show that the epithelial JAK-STAT pathway might be subjected to previously unknown dynamic negative control mechanisms: (1) activation of dormant phosphatases and (2) inhibition of nuclear import of IRF1. Availability: The model, written in Matlab, is available online at www.stat.rice.edu/~jsmieja/IFN Contact: jaroslaw.smieja@polsl.pl Supplementary information:Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1093/bioinformatics/btn400
Bioinformatics
Keywords
Field
DocType
experimental phenomenon,epithelial jak-stat pathway,numerical data,regulatory mechanism,available online,bioinformatics online,mathematical model,pathway dynamic,model-based analysis,induced jak-stat,signaling pathway,signal transduction
Interferon,Biology,IRF1,Janus kinase,Signal transduction,Bioinformatics,Nuclear transport
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
24
20
1367-4811
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
8
1.43
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Jaroslaw Smieja185.49
Mohammad Jamaluddin281.43
Allan R. Brasier3152.95
Marek Kimmel414520.47