Home > Research > Publications & Outputs > Investigating IKK Dynamics in the NF-κB Signall...

Electronic data

  • PID4690973

    Accepted author manuscript, 12 MB, PDF document

    Available under license: None

Links

Text available via DOI:

View graph of relations

Investigating IKK Dynamics in the NF-κB Signalling Pathway using X-Machines

Research output: Contribution in Book/Report/Proceedings - With ISBN/ISSNConference contribution/Paperpeer-review

Published
Close
Publication date5/06/2017
Host publicationProceedings of the 2017 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation: Special Session on Artificial Immune Systems: Algorithms, Simulation, Modelling and Theory
PublisherIEEE
Pages249-256
Number of pages8
ISBN (electronic)9781509046003
ISBN (print)9781509046027
<mark>Original language</mark>English

Abstract

The transcription factor NF-κB is a biological component that is central to the regulation of genes involved in the innate immune system. Dysregulation of the pathway is known to be involved in a large number of inflammatory diseases. Although considerable research has been performed since its discovery in 1986, we are still not in a position to control the signalling pathway, and thus limit the effects of NF-κB within promotion of inflammatory diseases. We have developed an agent-based model of the IL-1 stimulated NF-κB signalling pathway, which has been calibrated to wet-lab data at the single-cell level. Through rigorous software engineering, we believe our model provides an abstracted view of the underlying real-world system, and can be used in a predictive capacity through in silico experimentation. In this study, we have focused on the dynamics of the IKK complex and its activation of NF-κB. Our agent-based model suggests that the pathway is sensitive to: variations in the binding probability of IKK to the inhibited NF-κB-IκBα complex; and variations in the temporal rebinding delay of IKK.