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Five patterns of cell signaling pathways associated with cell behavior

Takeda, Y.; Kawano, K.; Ma, R.; Saitoh, S.; Asao, H.

2020-08-04 systems biology
10.1101/2020.08.04.235986 bioRxiv
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Cell signaling pathway is complex systems. Here, we present a concept for a new approach to analyze cell signaling pathway associated with cell behavior. In theoretically, cell behavior is recognized by energy and fluctuation. In this study, we measured phosphorylation level of signal transducers in a cell and fluctuation of the phosphorylation level in the cell population using flow cytometry. Flow cytometric data of mean fluorescence intensity (MFI) and coefficient variation (CV) were considered to the energy and the fluctuation, respectively. Topologically, the changes of MFI and CV were categorized into five patterns (we tentatively named as attractive, subsequent, passive, counter, and negative arbiter). In this study, we clarified the relationship between the cell behavior and the five patterns. Furthermore, combining the five patterns can define the signaling pathways, such as simple activated signal, oscillating signal, regulatory signal, robust signal, or homeostatic signal. These observations provide a proof of concept for general strategy to use the five patterns for connection between cell signaling pathway and cell behavior.

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