Keisuke Nagase, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Noboru Nagata, F. Yamamoto, T. Natsume, Kenichi Dedachi, T. Tsukamoto, N. Kurita
{"title":"Analysis of Cancer Invasion Mechanism by Cellular Simulation","authors":"Keisuke Nagase, Hiroshi Kobayashi, Noboru Nagata, F. Yamamoto, T. Natsume, Kenichi Dedachi, T. Tsukamoto, N. Kurita","doi":"10.2751/JCAC.8.75","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"癌細胞の浸潤には様々な蛋白質分解酵素が関与している。本研究では、これらの酵素の役割を明確にするため、細胞シミュレータ E-CELL を用いて、癌浸潤機構のモデルを新たに開発した。このモデルを用いて、5種類の癌細胞の浸潤特性を解析し、実験結果と定性的に一致する結果を得た。その結果、癌細胞の浸潤には、癌細胞が産生する urokinase-type plasminogen activator ( uPA )と癌細胞膜上に存在する活性型受容体 uPA receptor の結合が重要であることが、明らかになった。","PeriodicalId":41457,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry","volume":"8 1","pages":"75-84"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2007-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"3","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Computer Aided Chemistry","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.2751/JCAC.8.75","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}