Studies of Receptor Mediated Signal Transduction Processes in Mammalian Cancer Bi

描述（由申请人提供）：我描述了一种系统方法，用于开发和实施新方法，以基于实验数据探索哺乳动物细胞中外源性凋亡中受体介导的信号传导模型。我的重点将是从细胞表面的配体结合到线粒体外膜透化和最终效应器半胱天冬酶激活的信号事件。这项工作的发现也将对分子癌细胞生物学和相关领域的原型线索-信号-反应途径产生影响。我将研究不同的竞争机制的有效性，线粒体外膜透化使用理论方法和补充，在我们的实验室收集的实验数据。这样一个模型的实验数据的校准将是我的工作的中心方面。我期待着新的理论的发展，凋亡，这将建议新的研究方向。拟议工作的第二阶段将扩大模型，以检查药物对不同类型的转化和非转化细胞的影响，也是基于实验数据。在生物学工作的同时，我将开发工具，允许灵活处理复杂的网络模型，从而促进生物学研究。注意模型跟踪，模型共享，以及它与实验的连接将通过使用语义维基为基础的软件在我们的实验室开发的项目的传播和推广给予特别关注。对于该奖项的独立部分，我将把我新获得的癌症分子细胞生物学知识与我的理论物理化学培训相结合，以开发准确描述细胞环境的工具，并实施方法来减少当前建模工作中难以获得的参数数量。我希望我的项目对细胞凋亡信号通路的研究，药物及其与细胞凋亡相关蛋白质相互作用的理解，以及植根于细胞分子癌症生物学需求的工具的开发产生深远的影响。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): I describe a systems approach to develop and implement novel methods to explore model receptor-mediated signaling in extrinsic apoptosis in mammalian cells based on experimental data. My focus will be on the signaling events from ligand binding at the cellular surface to mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization and eventual effector caspase activation. The discoveries from this work will also have an impact in prototypical cue-signal-response pathways in molecular cancer cell biology and related fields. I will examine the validity of different competing mechanisms for mitochondrial outer membrane permeabilization using theoretical approaches and complement this with experimental data collected in our laboratory. The calibration of such a model to experimental data will be central aspect of my work. I expect the development of novel theories about apoptosis which will suggest new research directions. A second stage of the proposed work will expand the models to examine the effect of drugs on transformed and non-transformed cells of different types, also based on experimental data. Concurrent with the biological work, I will develop tools that will allow for flexible treatment of complex network models thus facilitating the biological studies. Attention to model tracking, model sharing, and its connection with experiments will be given special attention through the use of semantic- Wiki based software developed in our laboratory for dissemination and outreach of the project. Toward the independent part of the award I will merge my newly acquired cancer molecular cell biology knowledge with my theoretical physical chemistry training to develop tools which accurately describe cellular environments and implement methods to reduce the number of parameters that are difficult to obtain in current modeling efforts. I expect my project to have a profound impact on the study of signaling pathways in apoptosis, the understanding of drugs and their interactions with proteins related to apoptosis, and the development of tools rooted in the needs of cell molecular cancer biology.