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Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics - JIB (ISSN 1613-4516)

Wnt/ß-catenin signalling plays an important role in zonation of liver parenchyma and in patterning of hepatocyte heterogeneity. A characteristic marker of this heterogeneity is glutamine synthetase, which is expressed only in a subset of pericentrally located hepatocytes. To investigate, whether and how the Wnt/beta-catenin signalling pathway is involved a culture of hepatocytes was stimulated by LiCl. This resulted in an increase in the specific GS activity, indicating that the Wnt/ß-catenin pathway may participate in regulating GS levels. Affymetrix GeneChip oligonucleotide arrays were used to monitor the gene expression changes during a period from 2 to 24 hours after stimulation by LiCl. Samples from a cultivation without stimulation were used as controls. Based on the gene expression profiles a hypothetic signal transduction network was constructed by a reverse engineering algorithm. The network robustness was tested and the most stable structure was identified.

DOI: 10.2390/biecoll-jib-2005-15

Zellmer, Sebastian ; Schmidt-Heck, Wolfgang ; Gaunitz, Frank ; Baldysiak-Figiel, Alicja ; Guthke, Reinhardt ; Gebhardt, Rolf  (2005)  Dynamic Network Reconstruction from Gene Expression Data Describing the Effect of LiCl Stimulation on Hepatocytes. Journal of Integrative Bioinformatics - JIB (ISSN 1613-4516), 2(1), 2005

Online-Journal: http://journal.imbio.de/index.php?paper_id=15
URL: http://biecoll.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/volltexte/2007/196

Ralf Hofestädt (ed.). Integrative Bioinformatics - Yearbook 2005.
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