Cell-surface heparan sulfate proteoglycans as multifunctional integrators of signaling in cancer

N Hassan, B Greve, NA Espinoza-Sánchez, M Götte - Cellular Signalling, 2021 - Elsevier
Proteoglycans (PGs) represent a large proportion of the components that constitute the
extracellular matrix (ECM). They are a diverse group of glycoproteins characterized by a …

[HTML][HTML] Discrete dynamic network modeling of oncogenic signaling: Mechanistic insights for personalized treatment of cancer

JGT Zañudo, SN Steinway, R Albert - Current Opinion in Systems Biology, 2018 - Elsevier
Targeted drugs disrupting proteins that are dysregulated in cancer have emerged as
promising treatments because of their specificity to cancer cell aberrations and thus their …

Hybrid epithelial–mesenchymal phenotypes are controlled by microenvironmental factors

G Selvaggio, S Canato, A Pawar, PT Monteiro… - Cancer research, 2020 - AACR
Epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) has been associated with cancer cell
heterogeneity, plasticity, and metastasis. However, the extrinsic signals supervising these …

[HTML][HTML] Revisiting epithelial carcinogenesis

LF Méndez-López - International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
The origin of cancer remains one of the most important enigmas in modern biology. This
paper presents a hypothesis for the origin of carcinomas in which cellular aging and …

[HTML][HTML] Landscape and kinetic path quantify critical transitions in epithelial-mesenchymal transition

J Lang, Q Nie, C Li - Biophysical Journal, 2021 - cell.com
Abstract Epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT), a basic developmental process that might
promote cancer metastasis, has been studied from various perspectives. Recently, the early …

Towards control of cellular decision-making networks in the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition

JGT Zañudo, MT Guinn, K Farquhar, M Szenk… - Physical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the epithelial-to-mesenchymal transition (EMT) from two perspectives:
experimental/technological and theoretical. We review the state of the current understanding …

[HTML][HTML] Target control in logical models using the domain of influence of nodes

G Yang, J Gómez Tejeda Zañudo, R Albert - Frontiers in physiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Dynamical models of biomolecular networks are successfully used to understand the
mechanisms underlying complex diseases and to design therapeutic strategies. Network …

[HTML][HTML] A network modeling approach to elucidate drug resistance mechanisms and predict combinatorial drug treatments in breast cancer

J Gómez Tejeda Zañudo, M Scaltriti, R Albert - Cancer convergence, 2017 - Springer
Background Mechanistic models of within-cell signal transduction networks can explain how
these networks integrate internal and external inputs to give rise to the appropriate cellular …

[HTML][HTML] Leveraging quantum computing for dynamic analyses of logical networks in systems biology

FM Weidner, JD Schwab, S Wölk, F Rupprecht… - Patterns, 2023 - cell.com
The dynamics of cellular mechanisms can be investigated through the analysis of networks.
One of the simplest but most popular modeling strategies involves logic-based models …

[HTML][HTML] A computational model of the endothelial to mesenchymal transition

N Weinstein, L Mendoza, ER Álvarez-Buylla - Frontiers in genetics, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Endothelial cells (ECs) form the lining of lymph and blood vessels. Changes in tissue
requirements or wounds may cause ECs to behave as tip or stalk cells. Alternatively, they …