Optimal experimental design for parameter estimation of a cell signaling model.
Differential equation models that describe the dynamic changes of biochemical signaling states are important tools to understand cellular behavior. An essential task in building such representations is to infer the affinities, rate constants, and other parameters of a model from actual measurement d...
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| author | Samuel Bandara Johannes P Schlöder Roland Eils Hans Georg Bock Tobias Meyer |
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| description | Differential equation models that describe the dynamic changes of biochemical signaling states are important tools to understand cellular behavior. An essential task in building such representations is to infer the affinities, rate constants, and other parameters of a model from actual measurement data. However, intuitive measurement protocols often fail to generate data that restrict the range of possible parameter values. Here we utilized a numerical method to iteratively design optimal live-cell fluorescence microscopy experiments in order to reveal pharmacological and kinetic parameters of a phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP(3)) second messenger signaling process that is deregulated in many tumors. The experimental approach included the activation of endogenous phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) by chemically induced recruitment of a regulatory peptide, reversible inhibition of PI3K using a kinase inhibitor, and monitoring of the PI3K-mediated production of PIP(3) lipids using the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of Akt. We found that an intuitively planned and established experimental protocol did not yield data from which relevant parameters could be inferred. Starting from a set of poorly defined model parameters derived from the intuitively planned experiment, we calculated concentration-time profiles for both the inducing and the inhibitory compound that would minimize the predicted uncertainty of parameter estimates. Two cycles of optimization and experimentation were sufficient to narrowly confine the model parameters, with the mean variance of estimates dropping more than sixty-fold. Thus, optimal experimental design proved to be a powerful strategy to minimize the number of experiments needed to infer biological parameters from a cell signaling assay. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-c8c03d17b59843e7a3d0d5356f45e82b2025-08-20T02:02:01ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS Computational Biology1553-734X1553-73582009-11-01511e100055810.1371/journal.pcbi.1000558Optimal experimental design for parameter estimation of a cell signaling model.Samuel BandaraJohannes P SchlöderRoland EilsHans Georg BockTobias MeyerDifferential equation models that describe the dynamic changes of biochemical signaling states are important tools to understand cellular behavior. An essential task in building such representations is to infer the affinities, rate constants, and other parameters of a model from actual measurement data. However, intuitive measurement protocols often fail to generate data that restrict the range of possible parameter values. Here we utilized a numerical method to iteratively design optimal live-cell fluorescence microscopy experiments in order to reveal pharmacological and kinetic parameters of a phosphatidylinositol 3,4,5-trisphosphate (PIP(3)) second messenger signaling process that is deregulated in many tumors. The experimental approach included the activation of endogenous phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) by chemically induced recruitment of a regulatory peptide, reversible inhibition of PI3K using a kinase inhibitor, and monitoring of the PI3K-mediated production of PIP(3) lipids using the pleckstrin homology (PH) domain of Akt. We found that an intuitively planned and established experimental protocol did not yield data from which relevant parameters could be inferred. Starting from a set of poorly defined model parameters derived from the intuitively planned experiment, we calculated concentration-time profiles for both the inducing and the inhibitory compound that would minimize the predicted uncertainty of parameter estimates. Two cycles of optimization and experimentation were sufficient to narrowly confine the model parameters, with the mean variance of estimates dropping more than sixty-fold. Thus, optimal experimental design proved to be a powerful strategy to minimize the number of experiments needed to infer biological parameters from a cell signaling assay.https://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000558&type=printable |
| spellingShingle | Samuel Bandara Johannes P Schlöder Roland Eils Hans Georg Bock Tobias Meyer Optimal experimental design for parameter estimation of a cell signaling model. PLoS Computational Biology |
| title | Optimal experimental design for parameter estimation of a cell signaling model. |
| title_full | Optimal experimental design for parameter estimation of a cell signaling model. |
| title_fullStr | Optimal experimental design for parameter estimation of a cell signaling model. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Optimal experimental design for parameter estimation of a cell signaling model. |
| title_short | Optimal experimental design for parameter estimation of a cell signaling model. |
| title_sort | optimal experimental design for parameter estimation of a cell signaling model |
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