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The research of signal transduction pathways is one of the most popular directions in the contemporary biochemistry and molecular biology. Great number of scientific tasks is connected anyhow with signal transduction pathways. The action of hormones and several drugs, apoptosis, blood coagulation, cell differentiation, muscular contraction – that is only very small part, where researchers have to study in the more or less degree such kind of biochemical systems. Certain progress was outlined in this sphere recently. Thus, a lot of signal transduction pathways have already perfectly reconstructed – from source to target. Moreover, great number of quantitative experimental data, characterizing the dynamics of individual processes has been accumulated. The role of systems biology is to integrate all this information in to single whole, to analyze it and apply for various tasks solution, including applied ones (new drugs development and drug action investigation). In our group kinetic modeling is used as such integrative method that allows working with the widest diapason of experimental data. Moreover, we are able to research time dependence of signal expansion and to model very complex additive effects, when appearance and expansion of signal were influenced by several factors simultaneously.



Modeling of NFkB-dependent gene expression activation pathways

thumb_NFkB_1_enThe phenomenon of apoptosis, programming cell death, repeatedly became the cause of heated arguments in the scientific circles. In is not surprising, as its importance for life and functioning of cell and organism in the whole is difficult to overstate. Apoptosis plays significant role in the processes which are connected with development of cancer cells and formation of cancerous growth. It is significant to add, that Nobel price in medicine was given for discovery of this phenomenon in 2002. The great amount of all kinds of researches is connected with apoptosis, but nevertheless a lot of unsolved problems remain for researchers. It is quite explainable, because many factors influence the processes connected with apoptosis anyhow and it is difficult to understand this phenomenon in one sight.

Basing on considerable amount of experimental data accumulated in this question, we have started the kinetic model development of the main from the pathways of antiapoptotical signal transmission – activation of NFkB-dependent genes transcription. This project allows receiving the power instrument for estimation of impact various intra- and extracellular factors in the apoptosis/antiapoptosis processes. Moreover, by means of that it is possible to reveal the number of unsolved problem, existing in the understanding of these processes up to now.

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