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Title: Integrated analysis reveals that STAT3 is central to the crosstalk between HER/ErbB receptor signaling pathways in human mammary epithelial cells

Abstract

Human epidermal growth factor receptors (HER, also known as ErbB) drive cellular proliferation, pro-survival and stress responses by activating several downstream kinases, in particular ERK, p38, JNK (SAPK), the PI3K/AKT, as well as various transcriptional regulators such as STAT3. When co-expressed, first three members of HER family (HER1-3) can form homo- and hetero-dimers. Based on the considerable evidence which suggest that every receptor dimer activates intracellular signaling pathways differentially, we hypothesized that the HER dimerization pattern is a better predictor of downstream signaling than the total receptor activation levels. We validated our hypothesis using a combination of model-based analysis to quantify the HER dimerization patterns and multi-factorial experiments where HER dimerization patterns and signaling crosstalk were rationally perturbed. We have measured the activation of HER1-3 receptors and of the sentinel signaling proteins ERK, AKT, p38, JNK, STAT3 as a function of time in a panel of human mammary epithelial (HME) cells expressing different levels of HER1-3 stimulated with various ligand combinations. Our analysis using multiple ways of clustering the activation data has confirmed that the HER receptor dimer is a better predictor of the signaling through p38, ERK and AKT pathways than the total HER receptor expression and activation levels.more » Targeted inhibition studies to identify the causal effects allowed us to obtain a consensus regulatory interaction model, which revealed that STAT3 occupies a central role in the crosstalk between the studied pathways.« less

Authors:
 [1];  [1];  [1];  [2]
  1. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group
  2. Pacific Northwest National Lab. (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States). Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Group; Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States). School of Chemical Engineering and Bioengineering; Washington State Univ., Pullman, WA (United States). School of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
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Research Org.:
Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL), Richland, WA (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE; National Institutes of Health (NIH)
OSTI Identifier:
1184915
Report Number(s):
PNNL-SA-100045
Journal ID: ISSN 1742-206X; MBOIBW; 400412000
Grant/Contract Number:  
AC05-76RL01830; AC06-76RL01830; 5R01GM072821-07
Resource Type:
Accepted Manuscript
Journal Name:
Molecular BioSystems
Additional Journal Information:
Journal Volume: 11; Journal Issue: 1; Journal ID: ISSN 1742-206X
Publisher:
Royal Society of Chemistry
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
59 BASIC BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

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Gong, Chunhong, Zhang, Yi, Shankaran, Harish, and Resat, Haluk. Integrated analysis reveals that STAT3 is central to the crosstalk between HER/ErbB receptor signaling pathways in human mammary epithelial cells. United States: N. p., 2014. Web. doi:10.1039/c4mb00471j.
Gong, Chunhong, Zhang, Yi, Shankaran, Harish, & Resat, Haluk. Integrated analysis reveals that STAT3 is central to the crosstalk between HER/ErbB receptor signaling pathways in human mammary epithelial cells. United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4mb00471j
Gong, Chunhong, Zhang, Yi, Shankaran, Harish, and Resat, Haluk. Thu . "Integrated analysis reveals that STAT3 is central to the crosstalk between HER/ErbB receptor signaling pathways in human mammary epithelial cells". United States. https://doi.org/10.1039/c4mb00471j. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1184915.
@article{osti_1184915,
title = {Integrated analysis reveals that STAT3 is central to the crosstalk between HER/ErbB receptor signaling pathways in human mammary epithelial cells},
author = {Gong, Chunhong and Zhang, Yi and Shankaran, Harish and Resat, Haluk},
abstractNote = {Human epidermal growth factor receptors (HER, also known as ErbB) drive cellular proliferation, pro-survival and stress responses by activating several downstream kinases, in particular ERK, p38, JNK (SAPK), the PI3K/AKT, as well as various transcriptional regulators such as STAT3. When co-expressed, first three members of HER family (HER1-3) can form homo- and hetero-dimers. Based on the considerable evidence which suggest that every receptor dimer activates intracellular signaling pathways differentially, we hypothesized that the HER dimerization pattern is a better predictor of downstream signaling than the total receptor activation levels. We validated our hypothesis using a combination of model-based analysis to quantify the HER dimerization patterns and multi-factorial experiments where HER dimerization patterns and signaling crosstalk were rationally perturbed. We have measured the activation of HER1-3 receptors and of the sentinel signaling proteins ERK, AKT, p38, JNK, STAT3 as a function of time in a panel of human mammary epithelial (HME) cells expressing different levels of HER1-3 stimulated with various ligand combinations. Our analysis using multiple ways of clustering the activation data has confirmed that the HER receptor dimer is a better predictor of the signaling through p38, ERK and AKT pathways than the total HER receptor expression and activation levels. Targeted inhibition studies to identify the causal effects allowed us to obtain a consensus regulatory interaction model, which revealed that STAT3 occupies a central role in the crosstalk between the studied pathways.},
doi = {10.1039/c4mb00471j},
journal = {Molecular BioSystems},
number = 1,
volume = 11,
place = {United States},
year = {Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014},
month = {Thu Oct 02 00:00:00 EDT 2014}
}

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