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  • Path2Models: large-scale generation of computational models from biochemical pathway maps
    Publication . Büchel, Finja; Rodriguez, Nicolas; Swainston, Neil; Wrzodek, Clemens; Czauderna, Tobias; Keller, Roland; Mittag, Florian; Schubert, Michael; Glont, Mihai; Golebiewski, Martin; van Iersel, Martijn; Keating, Sarah; Rall, Matthias; Wybrow, Michael; Hermjakob, Henning; Hucka, Michael; Kell, Douglas B; Müller, Wolfgang; Mendes, Pedro; Zell, Andreas; Chaouiya, Claudine; Saez-Rodriguez, Julio; Schreiber, Falk; Laibe, Camille; Dräger, Andreas; Le Novère, Nicolas
    Systems biology projects and omics technologies have led to a growing number of biochemical pathway models and reconstructions. However, the majority of these models are still created de novo, based on literature mining and the manual processing of pathway data.
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  • Transthyretin Proteins Regulate Angiogenesis by Conferring Different Molecular Identities to Endothelial Cells
    Publication . Nunes, R. J.; de Oliveira, P.; Lages, A.; Becker, J. D.; Marcelino, P.; Barroso, E.; Perdigoto, R.; Kelly, J. W.; Quintas, A.; Santos, S. C. R.
    Familial amyloidotic polyneuropathy (FAP) has a high prevalence in Portugal, and the most common form of hereditary amyloidosis is caused by an amyloidogenic variant of transthyretin (TTR) with a substitution of methionine for valine at position 30 (V30M). Until now, the available efficient therapy is liver transplantation, when performed in an early phase of the onset of the disease symptoms. However, transplanted FAP patients have a significantly higher incidence of early hepatic artery thrombosis compared with non-FAP transplanted patients. Because FAP was described as an independent risk factor for early hepatic artery thrombosis, more studies to understand the underlying mechanisms involved in this outcome are of the utmost importance. Knowing that the liver is the major site for TTR production, we investigated the biological effects of TTR proteins in the vasculature and on angiogenesis. In this study, we identified genes differentially expressed in endothelial cells exposed to the WT or V30M tetramer. We found that endothelial cells may acquire different molecular identities when exposed to these proteins, and consequently TTR could regulate angiogenesis. Moreover, we show that V30M decreases endothelial survival by inducing apoptosis, and it inhibits migration. These findings provide new knowledge that may have critical implications in the prevention of early hepatic artery thrombosis in FAP patients after liver transplantation.
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