Skip to main content
Figure 2 | BMC Systems Biology

Figure 2

From: Modeling system states in liver cells: Survival, apoptosis and their modifications in response to viral infection

Figure 2

Apoptosis after FasL stimulation in hepatocytes cultured in suspension (shown on the left panels). A. SQUAD simulation of apoptosis in hepatocytes. Activation values for network nodes are calculated and translated into concentration predictions. Maximum value is 1, minimum value is 0. Color code: Concentration curves for survival signals (grey), caspase-9 (beige), caspase-8 (dark blue), caspase-3 (green), cytochrome c release into the cytosol (black), resulting apoptosis (red), tBid formation (pink), Fas stimulation (light blue). B. Experimental data. These are given in the inserted table. Primary hepatocytes are kept in suspension and treated with FasL direct after isolation. The values for the viable cells are shown in addition in the histogram. Wildtype hepatocytes are cultured in suspension and treated with 50 ng/ml N2A FasL for 0-4 hours. Cytosolic lysates were analyzed by Western Blotting and probed against cytochrome c (p15). Note that cytochrome c is strongly released into the cytosol after 2 hours FasL treatment in suspension hepatocytes.

Back to article page