Experimental and Computational Studies of Exit from Mitosis in Budding Yeast

出芽酵母有丝分裂退出的实验和计算研究

基本信息

批准号：
7176649
负责人：
John J. Tyson
金额：
$ 40.02万
依托单位：
VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INST AND ST UNIV
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2007
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2007-02-01 至 2011-01-31
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://reporter.nih.gov/project-details/7176649
关键词：
Accounting Address Affect Biochemistry Biological Cell Cycle Cell Cycle Progression Cell Cycle Regulation Cell Cycle Stage Cell Size Cell division Cells Chromosomes Complex Computing Methodologies Condition Congenital Abnormality Consult Cyclin A Cyclin-Dependent Kinases Cyclins DNA DNA damage checkpoint Data Development Disease Embryonic Development Equilibrium Eukaryota Eukaryotic Cell Event Facility Construction Funding Category Family Fission Yeast Foundations Gene Expression Gene Proteins Genes Genetic Genome Growth Growth Factor Health Human Individual Inherited Institutes Laboratories Life Mad1 protein Malignant Neoplasms Mammals Maps Measures Metaphase Methods Mitosis Mitotic Mitotic spindle Modeling Molecular Molecular Genetics Newborn Infant Nutritional status Organism Pathway interactions Pattern Phase Phosphoric Monoester Hydrolases Phosphotransferases Physiological Plant Roots Process Property Proteins Rana Rate Relative (related person)Reproduction Research Personnel Role Saccharomyces cerevisiae Saccharomycetales Science Signal Pathway Signal Transduction Solid System Testing Theoretical Studies Time Translating Uncertainty Universities Virginia Wound Healing Yeast Model System Yeasts base carcinogenesis cell growth cell type computer studies cost genome sequencing improved mathematical model molecular oncology novel programs research study response simulation success theories tissue regeneration tool

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The cycle of cell growth, DMA synthesis, mitosis and cell division is the fundamental process by which cells (and all living organisms) grow, develop and reproduce. Hence, it is of crucial importance to science and human health to understand the molecular mechanisms that control these processes in eukaryotic cells. Molecular biologists have been extremely successful in identifying the major genes and proteins involved in this control system, especially in yeast cells where genetic tools are especially powerful. Indeed, the molecular details are so extensive and the regulatory network is so complicated that mathematical and computational methods are needed to reliably track the interactions of dozens of genes, mRNAs, proteins, and multi-protein complexes. Such a model of the cell cycle control system in budding yeast has proved to be both accurate and predictive. Nonetheless, as experimental characterization of cell-cycle control mechanisms continues to grow, the model must grow as well. In this proposal, a multi-disciplinary team of theoreticians and experimentalists from Virginia Tech, the Rockefeller University and the Institute for Molecular Oncology seeks a better understanding of the molecular controls over events at the end of the cell cycle, when replicated DMA molecules are partitioned to the two halves of a dividing cell so that each newly formed cell receives one and only one copy of each DNA molecule. If the dividing cell makes errors in this process, then newborn cells will inherit too many or too few DNA molecules, which is a root cause of some diseases-like cancer-and of some birth defects. The investigators will measure the molecular correlates of mitotic-exit events, and they will build detailed models of the signaling pathways that control these events (the mitotic-exit network, the 'FEAR1 pathway, the DNA-damage checkpoint, and the spindle assembly checkpoint). All models are built on a solid foundation of experimental observations, and they make clear and novel predictions about cell division under controlled conditions. Many of these predictions will be tested by the experimental collaborators. Because all eukaryotic cells seem to employ the same fundamental molecular machinery of cell cycle regulation, success in modeling mitotic exit in budding yeast will translate into better understanding of normal and aberrant cell division of relevance to human health: e.g., embryonic development, tissue regeneration, wound healing, and carcinogenesis.

描述（由申请人提供）：细胞生长，DMA合成，有丝分裂和细胞分裂的循环是细胞（以及所有生物体）生长，发育和繁殖的基本过程。因此，了解控制真核细胞中这些过程的分子机制对于科学和人类健康至关重要。分子生物学家在识别该控制系统中涉及的主要基因和蛋白质方面非常成功，尤其是在遗传工具特别强大的酵母细胞中。实际上，分子细节是如此广泛，调节网络是如此复杂，以至于需要数学和计算方法来可靠地跟踪数十种基因，mRNA，蛋白质和多蛋白质复合物的相互作用。事实证明，出现酵母中细胞周期控制系统的这种模型既准确又具有预测性。但是，随着细胞周期控制机制的实验表征继续增长，该模型也必须增长。在该提案中，来自弗吉尼亚理工学院，洛克菲勒大学和分子肿瘤学研究所的理论家和实验学家的多学科团队，寻求对细胞周期结束时对事件的分子控制的理解，当时被衡量的DMA分子是分配的。到一个分隔单元的两半，因此每个新形成的细胞都会接收一个和只有一个DNA分子的一个副本。如果分裂细胞在此过程中出现错误，那么新生细胞将继承过多或太少的DNA分子，这是某些疾病样癌症的根本原因，并且是某些先天缺陷。研究人员将测量有丝分裂外事件的分子相关性，并将建立控制这些事件的信号传导途径的详细模型（有丝分裂 - exit网络，'fear1途径，DNA损伤检查点和纺锤组装检查点）。所有模型均建立在实验观测的坚实基础上，并且它们在受控条件下对细胞分裂做出了清晰而新颖的预测。这些预测中的许多将由实验合作者测试。由于所有真核细胞似乎都采用了相同的细胞周期调节分子机制，因此在萌芽酵母中建模有丝分裂出口的成功将转化为对正常和异常的细胞与人类健康的相关性的了解：伤口愈合和致癌作用。