Hh and EGFR-Ras signaling promote distinct steps of tumor progression in the Drosophila follicle epithelium
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ORGANISM(S): Drosophila melanogaster
PROVIDER: GSE291056 | GEO | 2026/02/18
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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Project description:It has long been known that excessive mitotic activity due to H-Ras can block keratinocyte differentiation and cause skin cancer. It is not clear, however, whether there are any innate surveillants that ensure keratinocytes undergoing terminal differentiation, preventing the disease. IKKα induces keratinocyte terminal differentiation and its reduction promotes skin tumor development. However, its nature function in skin cancer is unknown. Here we found that mice with IKKα deletion in keratinocytes or in hair follicle keratinocytes developed a thickened epidermis and spontaneous squamous cell-like carcinomas. Inactivation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) or reintroduction of IKKα inhibited excessive mitosis, induced terminal differentiation, and prevented skin cancer through an EGFR-driven autocrine loop in mice. Thus, IKKα serves as an innate surveillant. Experiment Overall Design: The differences in gene expression profiles of CHUK deleted mouse keratinocytes compared to wild type mouse keratinocytes were analyzed using two dual-channel agilent microarrays in duplicates.
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Project description:It has long been known that excessive mitotic activity due to H-Ras can block keratinocyte differentiation and cause skin cancer. It is not clear, however, whether there are any innate surveillants that ensure keratinocytes undergoing terminal differentiation, preventing the disease. IKKα induces keratinocyte terminal differentiation and its reduction promotes skin tumor development. However, its nature function in skin cancer is unknown. Here we found that mice with IKKα deletion in keratinocytes or in hair follicle keratinocytes developed a thickened epidermis and spontaneous squamous cell-like carcinomas. Inactivation of epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) or reintroduction of IKKα inhibited excessive mitosis, induced terminal differentiation, and prevented skin cancer through an EGFR-driven autocrine loop in mice. Thus, IKKα serves as an innate surveillant.
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A systems biology approach to model neural stem cell regulation by notch, shh, wnt, and EGF signaling pathways.
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Omics: a Journal of Integrative Biology. 2011; 15(10):729-737
Abstract:
The Notch, Sonic Hedgehog (Shh), Wnt, and EGF pathways have long been known to influence cell fate specification in the developing nervous system. Here we attempted to evaluate the contemporary knowledge about neural stem cell differentiation promoted by various drug-based regulations through a systems biology approach. Our model showed the phenomenon of DAPT-mediated antagonism of Enhancer of split [E(spl)] genes and enhancement of Shh target genes by a SAG agonist that were effectively demonstrated computationally and were consistent with experimental studies. However, in the case of model simulation of Wnt and EGF pathways, the model network did not supply any concurrent results with experimental data despite the fact that drugs were added at the appropriate positions. This paves insight into the potential of crosstalks between pathways considered in our study. Therefore, we manually developed a map of signaling crosstalk, which included the species connected by representatives from Notch, Shh, Wnt, and EGF pathways and highlighted the regulation of a single target gene, Hes-1, based on drug-induced simulations. These simulations provided results that matched with experimental studies. Therefore, these signaling crosstalk models complement as a tool toward the discovery of novel regulatory processes involved in neural stem cell maintenance, proliferation, and differentiation during mammalian central nervous system development. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a simple crosstalk map that highlights the differential regulation of neural stem cell differentiation and underscores the flow of positive and negative regulatory signals modulated by drugs.
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Project description:Sivakumar2011_NeuralStemCellDifferentiation_Crosstalk
This model is generated by integrating
BIOMD0000000394
(EGFR),
BIOMD0000000395
(Hedgehog),
BIOMD0000000396
(Notch) and
BIOMD0000000397
(Wnt), to investigate the signalling crosstalk between the four
pathways.
This model is described in the article:
A systems biology approach
to model neural stem cell regulation by notch, shh, wnt, and
EGF signaling pathways.
Sivakumar KC, Dhanesh SB, Shobana S,
James J, Mundayoor S.
OMICS 2011 Oct; 15(10): 729-737
Abstract:
The Notch, Sonic Hedgehog (Shh), Wnt, and EGF pathways have
long been known to influence cell fate specification in the
developing nervous system. Here we attempted to evaluate the
contemporary knowledge about neural stem cell differentiation
promoted by various drug-based regulations through a systems
biology approach. Our model showed the phenomenon of
DAPT-mediated antagonism of Enhancer of split [E(spl)] genes
and enhancement of Shh target genes by a SAG agonist that were
effectively demonstrated computationally and were consistent
with experimental studies. However, in the case of model
simulation of Wnt and EGF pathways, the model network did not
supply any concurrent results with experimental data despite
the fact that drugs were added at the appropriate positions.
This paves insight into the potential of crosstalks between
pathways considered in our study. Therefore, we manually
developed a map of signaling crosstalk, which included the
species connected by representatives from Notch, Shh, Wnt, and
EGF pathways and highlighted the regulation of a single target
gene, Hes-1, based on drug-induced simulations. These
simulations provided results that matched with experimental
studies. Therefore, these signaling crosstalk models complement
as a tool toward the discovery of novel regulatory processes
involved in neural stem cell maintenance, proliferation, and
differentiation during mammalian central nervous system
development. To our knowledge, this is the first report of a
simple crosstalk map that highlights the differential
regulation of neural stem cell differentiation and underscores
the flow of positive and negative regulatory signals modulated
by drugs.
This model is hosted on
BioModels Database
and identified by:
BIOMD0000000398.
To cite BioModels Database, please use:
BioModels Database:
An enhanced, curated and annotated resource for published
quantitative kinetic models.
To the extent possible under law, all copyright and related or
neighbouring rights to this encoded model have been dedicated to
the public domain worldwide. Please refer to
CC0
Public Domain Dedication for more information.
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Project description:Hh and EGFR-Ras signaling promote distinct steps of tumor progression in the Drosophila follicle epithelium
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