Breast cancer dormancy: need for clinically relevant models to address current gaps in knowledge

GG Bushnell, AP Deshmukh, P den Hollander… - NPJ breast …, 2021 - nature.com
Breast cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the USA. Although advances in
treatment over the past several decades have significantly improved the outlook for this …

Identification of EMT signaling cross-talk and gene regulatory networks by single-cell RNA sequencing

AP Deshmukh, SV Vasaikar… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
The epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) plays a critical role during normal
development and in cancer progression. EMT is induced by various signaling pathways …

Cell fate decisions within the vascular cambium–initiating wood and bast formation

AS Haas, D Shi, T Greb - Frontiers in Plant Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Precise coordination of cell fate decisions is a hallmark of multicellular organisms.
Especially in tissues with non-stereotypic anatomies, dynamic communication between …

NetAct: a computational platform to construct core transcription factor regulatory networks using gene activity

K Su, A Katebi, V Kohar, B Clauss, D Gordin, ZS Qin… - Genome biology, 2022 - Springer
A major question in systems biology is how to identify the core gene regulatory circuit that
governs the decision-making of a biological process. Here, we develop a computational …

Data-driven modeling of core gene regulatory network underlying leukemogenesis in IDH mutant AML

A Katebi, X Chen, D Ramirez, S Li, M Lu - npj Systems Biology and …, 2024 - nature.com
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is characterized by uncontrolled proliferation of poorly
differentiated myeloid cells, with a heterogenous mutational landscape. Mutations in IDH1 …

What makes a functional gene regulatory network? A circuit motif analysis

L Huang, B Clauss, M Lu - The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, 2022 - ACS Publications
One of the key questions in systems biology is to understand the roles of gene regulatory
circuits in determining cellular states and their functions. In previous studies, some …

Dynamical systems theory of cellular reprogramming

Y Matsushita, TS Hatakeyama, K Kaneko - Physical Review Research, 2022 - APS
In cellular reprogramming, almost all epigenetic memories of differentiated cells are erased
by the overexpression of a few genes, resulting in regaining pluripotency, the potential for …

A quantitative evaluation of topological motifs and their coupling in gene circuit state distributions

B Clauss, M Lu - Iscience, 2023 - cell.com
One of the major challenges in biology is to understand how gene interactions collaborate to
determine overall functions of biological systems. Here, we present a new computational …

Dynamics of cell-type transition mediated by epigenetic modifications

R Huang, Q Situ, J Lei - Journal of Theoretical Biology, 2024 - Elsevier
Maintaining tissue homeostasis requires appropriate regulation of stem cell differentiation.
The Waddington landscape posits that gene circuits in a cell form a potential landscape of …

A mechanistic modeling framework reveals the key principles underlying tumor metabolism

S Tripathi, JH Park, S Pudakalakatti… - PLoS computational …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
While aerobic glycolysis, or the Warburg effect, has for a long time been considered a
hallmark of tumor metabolism, recent studies have revealed a far more complex picture …