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PLOS ONE
Volume 3, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0001555
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- DAAD, German Academic Exchange Service [A/04/31166]
- DFG, German Research Foundation [Di 852/4-x]
- BMBF, Federal Ministry of Education and Research of Germany [0312704A]
- EU, ESIGNET [12789]
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Background: The Mitotic Spindle Assembly Checkpoint ( M SAC) is an evolutionary conserved mechanism that ensures the correct segregation of chromosomes by restraining cell cycle progression from entering anaphase until all chromosomes have made proper bipolar attachments to the mitotic spindle. Its malfunction can lead to cancer. Principle Findings: We have constructed and validated for the human M SAC mechanism an in silico dynamical model, integrating 11 proteins and complexes. The model incorporates the perspectives of three central control pathways, namely Mad1/Mad2 induced Cdc20 sequestering based on the Template Model, MCC formation, and APC inhibition. Originating from the biochemical reactions for the underlying molecular processes, non-linear ordinary differential equations for the concentrations of 11 proteins and complexes of the M SAC are derived. Most of the kinetic constants are taken from literature, the remaining four unknown parameters are derived by an evolutionary optimization procedure for an objective function describing the dynamics of the APC: Cdc20 complex. MCC: APC dissociation is described by two alternatives, namely the Dissociation'' and the Convey'' model variants. The attachment of the kinetochore to microtubuli is simulated by a switching parameter silencing those reactions which are stopped by the attachment. For both, the Dissociation and the Convey variants, we compare two different scenarios concerning the microtubule attachment dependent control of the dissociation reaction. Our model is validated by simulation of ten perturbation experiments. Conclusion: Only in the controlled case, our models show M SAC behaviour at meta-to anaphase transition in agreement with experimental observations. Our simulations revealed that for M SAC activation, Cdc20 is not fully sequestered; instead APC is inhibited by MCC binding.
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