Toward a quantitative understanding of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway through simulation and experiment

Lloyd-Lewis, Bethan, Fletcher, Alexander G., Dale, Trevor Clive ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4880-9963 and Byrne, Helen M. 2013. Toward a quantitative understanding of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway through simulation and experiment. Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Systems Biology and Medicine 5 (4) , pp. 391-407. 10.1002/wsbm.1221

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Abstract

Wnt signaling regulates cell survival, proliferation, and differentiation throughout development and is aberrantly regulated in cancer. The pathway is activated when Wnt ligands bind to specific receptors on the cell surface, resulting in the stabilization and nuclear accumulation of the transcriptional co-activator β-catenin. Mathematical and computational models have been used to study the spatial and temporal regulation of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway and to investigate the functional impact of mutations in key components. Such models range in complexity, from time-dependent, ordinary differential equations that describe the biochemical interactions between key pathway components within a single cell, to complex, multiscale models that incorporate the role of the Wnt/β-catenin pathway target genes in tissue homeostasis and carcinogenesis. This review aims to summarize recent progress in mathematical modeling of the Wnt pathway and to highlight new biological results that could form the basis for future theoretical investigations designed to increase the utility of theoretical models of Wnt signaling in the biomedical arena.

Item Type:	Article
Date Type:	Publication
Status:	Published
Schools:	Biosciences European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute (ECSCRI)
Subjects:	Q Science > QH Natural history > QH301 Biology
Publisher:	Wiley
ISSN:	1939-5094
Funders:	BBSRC, Cancer Research UK
Last Modified:	22 Jun 2023 10:01
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/49680

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