Modeling of Receptor Tyrosine Kinase Signaling: Computational and Experimental Protocols.

The advent of systems biology has convincingly demonstrated that the integration of experiments and dynamic modelling is a powerful approach to understand the cellular network biology. Here we present experimental and computational protocols that are necessary for applying this integrative approach to the quantitative studies of receptor tyrosine kinase (RTK) signaling networks. Signaling by RTKs controls multiple cellular processes, including the regulation of cell survival, motility, proliferation, differentiation, glucose metabolism, and apoptosis. We describe methods of model building and training on experimentally obtained quantitative datasets, as well as experimental methods of obtaining quantitative dose-response and temporal dependencies of protein phosphorylation and activities. The presented methods make possible (1) both the fine-grained modeling of complex signaling dynamics and identification of salient, course-grained network structures (such as feedback loops) that bring about intricate dynamics, and (2) experimental validation of dynamic models.

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