A Strategy Utilizing Protein–Protein Interaction Hubs for the Treatment of Cancer Diseases

N Carels, D Sgariglia, MGV Junior, CR Lima… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
We describe a strategy for the development of a rational approach of neoplastic disease
therapy based on the demonstration that scale-free networks are susceptible to specific …

Thermodynamic measures of cancer: Gibbs free energy and entropy of protein–protein interactions

EA Rietman, J Platig, JA Tuszynski… - Journal of biological …, 2016 - Springer
Thermodynamics is an important driving factor for chemical processes and for life. Earlier
work has shown that each cancer has its own molecular signaling network that supports its …

[HTML][HTML] Symmetry and symmetry breaking in cancer: a foundational approach to the cancer problem

JJ Frost, KJ Pienta, DS Coffey - Oncotarget, 2018 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Symmetry and symmetry breaking concepts from physics and biology are applied to the
problem of cancer. Three categories of symmetry breaking in cancer are examined …

A computational strategy to select optimized protein targets for drug development toward the control of cancer diseases

N Carels, T Tilli, JA Tuszynski - PLoS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
In this report, we describe a strategy for the optimized selection of protein targets suitable for
drug development against neoplastic diseases taking the particular case of breast cancer as …

[HTML][HTML] A Systems Biology Analysis of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia

G Pozzati, J Zhou, H Hazan, GL Klement… - Onco, 2024 - mdpi.com
Simple Summary Chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) is a unique and slowly progressing
cancer that affects white blood cells, and research on CLL has highlighted the inconsistency …

[HTML][HTML] Personalized anticancer therapy selection using molecular landscape topology and thermodynamics

EA Rietman, JG Scott, JA Tuszynski, GL Klement - Oncotarget, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Personalized anticancer therapy requires continuous consolidation of emerging
bioinformatics data into meaningful and accurate information streams. The use of novel …

Gibbs Energy and Gene Expression Combined as a New Technique for Selecting Drug Targets for Inhibiting Specific Protein–Protein Interactions

EA Rietman, HT Siegelmann, GL Klement… - International Journal of …, 2023 - mdpi.com
One of the most important aspects of successful cancer therapy is the identification of a
target protein for inhibition interaction. Conventionally, this consists of screening a panel of …

A molecular pathway analysis stresses the role of inflammation and oxidative stress towards cognition in schizophrenia

EK Fischer, A Drago - Journal of Neural Transmission, 2017 - Springer
Cognitive processes have a genetic component and are impaired in Schizophrenia (SKZ).
The exact nature of such impairment escapes definition. The aim of the present contribution …

Using the Gibbs function as a measure of human brain development trends from fetal stage to advanced age

EA Rietman, S Taylor, HT Siegelmann… - International Journal of …, 2020 - mdpi.com
We propose to use a Gibbs free energy function as a measure of the human brain
development. We adopt this approach to the development of the human brain over the …

Application of Thermodynamics and Protein–Protein Interaction Network Topology for Discovery of Potential New Treatments for Temporal Lobe Epilepsy

C Yu, EA Rietman, HT Siegelmann, M Cavaglia… - Applied Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Featured Application This work describes the use of new methodology based on Gibbs
homology analysis for the identification of potential protein targets as well as their inhibitors …