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Inflammation and cancer. investigate the dynamics of key proteins in different cell types. Nature 420, 860–867 (2002). within the network (FIG. 1). In this context, Single cell analyses of signalling systems Acknowledgements dynamics is defined as the change of any have already revealed important informa- The author would like to thank members of the Centre for variable that can be quantitatively measured tion about the role of dynamics in regulat- Cancer and Inflammation at Barts and The London Medical School and also A. Mantovani for useful discussions and over time, such as protein concentration, ing various cellular responses. For example, criticism. activity, modification state or localiza- in mammalian cells the transcription factor Competing interests statement tion. These data are complementary to the nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB) shows pulses The authors declare competing financial interests: see web information originally used to describe of nuclear localization on stimulation2,3. version for details. the network, and have great potential to Single-cell analysis of luciferase expression DATABASES provide new insight into the relationship from a synthetic NF-κB-responsive pro- Entrez Gene: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query. between network structure and function. moter suggested that the pulses are involved fcgi?db=gene 3,4 MYC | TP53 | TSC1 | VHL For example, if the activity of a signalling in maintaining target gene expression . In National Cancer Institute Drug Dictionary: molecule is measured at only a single point Saccharomyces cerevisiae, the mitogen- http://www.cancer.gov/drugdictionary/ actinomycin D | bevacizumab | doxorubicin | etanercept | in time, the signal could be interpreted as activated protein kinase Fus3 shows oscil- infliximab | melphalan | mitomycin C binary: being either on or off. If, however, lations in activity in response to mating UniProtKB: http://www.uniprot.org 5 AID | BRAF | CCL2 | CXCL12 | CD13 | IKKβ | IL-2 | IL-6 | the signalling activity is quantitatively meas- pheromone . The Fus3 oscillations correlate lymphotoxin | MIF | MYD88 | p65 | SMAC | TERT | TLR2 | TLR4 | ured with high temporal resolution over a with oscillations in mating gene expres- TLR6 | TNF | TNFR1 | TNFR2 | TRAIL | TSC1 | versican | VHL long period it could show a large number sion and the formation of new mating FURTHER INFORMATION Frances Balkwill’s homepage: http://www.cancer.qmul.ac. of distinct behaviours. Detailed analysis of projections, as determined by fluorescence uk/research/cancer_inflammation/index.html dynamic behaviours in diverse systems and microscopy and flow cytometry using cells MolMed: http://www.molmed.com/eng/index.asp under various conditions has the potential expressing fluorescent fusion proteins5. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION to provide new levels of understanding of In this Perspective, we focus on the p53 See online article: S1 (box) how cells detect inputs and translate them network as a model for studying the dynam- ALL LINKS ARE ACTIVE IN THE ONLINE PDF into outputs. ics of a signal transduction pathway in single NATURE REVIEWS | CANCER VOLUME 9 | MAY 2009 | 371 © 2009 Macmillan Publishers Limited. All rights reserved PERSPECTIVES Stress Signaling molecules Environment DNA damage. Work by Lev Bar-Or et al.11 Input e.g. radiation, ROS e.g. EGF, Wnt, Bmp e.g. osmolarity, nutrients indicated that, in response to double strand breaks (DSBs) caused by γ-irradiation, p53 levels increased dramatically then decreased in a series of damped oscillations, in which otein] the amplitude of the oscillations decreases [Pr in time (FIG. 3). Single live-cell analyses Time using fluorescently tagged p53 and higher temporal resolution revealed that these Information population studies masked the true behav- processing otein] iour of the network. Instead of damped [Pr oscillations, individual cells show series of Time undamped p53 pulses with fixed amplitude and duration, independent of the amount of ] γ-irradiation12,13 (FIG. 3). The initial character- tein ization of the pulses as damped oscillations [Pro was a result of averaging across a population Time of cells. The apparently lower amplitude of Cell fate Differentiation Homoestasis p53 in later pulses, as observed in western Output e.g. repair versus e.g. ventral versus e.g. glycerol blots, is a results of several factors, including apoptosis dorsal fate production a reduction in the number of cells pulsing Figure 1 | Dynamics in signal transduction pathways. A complex protein network senses infor- at later times12 and loss of synchronization mation about the intracellular and extracellular environment (input), processesNature the Revie information,ws | Cancer 13,14 and triggers a response (output). Currently, the information