ABSTRACT:
This model is from the article:
Systems biology analysis of programmed cell death
Shani Bialik, Einat Zalckvar, Yaara Ber, Assaf D. Rubinstein, Adi Kimchi Trends in Biochemical Sciences
Volume 35, Issue 10, 556-564, 27 May 2010 20537543
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Abstract:
Systems biology, a combined computational and experimental approach to analyzing complex biological systems, has recently been applied to understanding the pathways that regulate programmed cell death. This approach has become especially crucial because recent advances have resulted in an expanded view of the network, to include not just a single death module (apoptosis) but multiple death programs, including programmed necrosis and autophagic cell death. Current research directions in the systems biology field range from quantitative analysis of subprocesses of individual death pathways to the study of interconnectivity among the various death modules of the larger network. These initial studies have provided great advances in our understanding of programmed cell death and have important clinical implications for drug target research.
Brief Note about the model:
This model is an export of 26 SPIKE
Apoptosis Networks to SBML format.
This is a pathway model (not quantitative model) of Apoptosis.
Apoptosis, or type I cell death, is a form of programmed cell death
characterized by fragmentation of the cytoplasm and nucleus, chromatin
condensation and fragmentation, cytoskeletal collapse, membrane
blebbing, and finally, disintegration of the cell into apoptotic
bodies, which are engulfed by adjacent cells, thereby avoiding an
inflammatory response. It serves to model tissues during embryonic
development, to regulate cell number by eliminating excess cells, and
to remove damaged, mutated or infected cells. Defective or excessive
apoptosis can lead to cancer or autoimmune and degenerative diseases,
respectively. Apoptosis is executed by a family of cysteine proteases,
the caspases, which function in a proteolytic cascade that is
initiated by either the intrinsic mitochondrial-based pathway leading
to apoptosome formation, or the extrinsic pathway, which involves
activation of death receptors by their extracellular ligands to form
the DISC. The most distal caspases, known as the executioner caspases,
cleave numerous cellular substrates, thereby leading to specific
dismantling of the cell. Apoptosis is regulated by multiple proteins
at several levels, including the Bcl-2 family, which regulate the
release of apoptogenic factors from the mitochondria, and the IAP
family, which regulate caspase activity, and is countered by survival
signals eminating from the NF-kB signaling pathway. Although most of
the regulation occurs at the post-translational level, involving
protein-protein interactions, proteolysis, changes in subcellular
localization and phosphorylation, transcriptional control, such as by
p53, can also modulate the expression levels of several key apoptotic
proteins.
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