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Vienna Series in Theoretical Biology
Gerd B. Mller, editor-in-chief
Thomas Pradeu and Katrin Schfer, associate editors
The Evolution of Cognition, edited by Cecilia Heyes and Ludwig Huber, 2000
Origination of Organismal Form, edited by Gerd B. Mller and Stuart A. Newman, 2003
Environment, Development, and Evolution, edited by Brian K. Hall, Roy D. Pearson, and Gerd B. Mller, 2004
Evolution of Communication Systems, edited by D. Kimbrough Oller and Ulrike Griebel, 2004
Modularity: Understanding the Development and Evolution of Natural Complex Systems, edited by Werner Callebaut and Diego Rasskin-Gutman, 2005
Compositional Evolution: The Impact of Sex, Symbiosis, and Modularity on the Gradualist Framework of Evolution, by Richard A. Watson, 2006
Biological Emergences: Evolution by Natural Experiment, by Robert G. B. Reid, 2007
Modeling Biology: Structure, Behaviors, Evolution, edited by Manfred D. Laubichler and Gerd B. Mller, 2007
Evolution of Communicative Flexibility, edited by Kimbrough D. Oller and Ulrike Griebel, 2008
Functions in Biological and Artificial Worlds, edited by Ulrich Krohs and Peter Kroes, 2009
Cognitive Biology, edited by Luca Tommasi, Mary A. Peterson and Lynn Nadel, 2009
Innovation in Cultural Systems, edited by Michael J. OBrien and Stephen J. Shennan, 2009
The Major Transitions in Evolution Revisited, edited by Brett Calcott and Kim Sterelny, 2011
Transformations of Lamarckism, edited by Snait B. Gissis and Eva Jablonka, 2011
Convergent Evolution: Limited Forms Most Beautiful, by George McGhee, 2011
From Groups to Individuals, edited by Frdric Bouchard and Philippe Huneman, 2013
Developing Scaffolds in Evolution, Culture, and Cognition, edited by Linnda R. Caporael, James Griesemer, and William C. Wimsatt, 2013
Multicellularity: Origins and Evolution, edited by Karl J. Niklas and Stuart A. Newman, 2016
Vivarium: Experimental, Quantitative, and Theoretical Biology at Viennas Biologische Versuchsanstalt, edited by Gerd B. Mller, 2017
Landscapes of Collectivity in the Life Sciences, edited by Snait B. Gissis, Ehud Lamm, and Ayelet Shavit, 2017
Rethinking Human Evolution, edited by Jeffrey H. Schwartz, 2018
Convergent Evolution in Stone-Tool Technology, edited by Michael J. OBrien, Briggs Buchanan, and Metin I. Erin, 2018
Evolutionary Causation: Biological and Philosophical Reflections, edited by Tobias Uller and Kevin N. LaLand, 2019
Convergent Evolution on Earth: Lessons for the Search for Extraterrestrial Life, by George McGhee, 2019
Contingency and Convergence: Toward a Cosmic Biology of Body and Mind, by Russell Powell, 2020
Rethinking Cancer: A New Paradigm for the Postgenomics Era, edited by Bernhard Strauss, Marta Bertolaso, Ingemar Ernberg, and Mina J. Bissell, 2021
Rethinking Cancer
A New Paradigm for the Postgenomics Era
Edited by Bernhard Strauss, Marta Bertolaso, Ingemar Ernberg, and Mina J. Bissell
The MIT Press
Cambridge, Massachusetts
London, England
2021 Massachusetts Institute of Technology
All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form by any electronic or mechanical means (including photocopying, recording, or information storage and retrieval) without permission in writing from the publisher.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Strauss, Bernhard, editor. | Bertolaso, Marta, editor. | Ernberg, Ingemar, 1948- editor. | Bissell, Mina, editor.
Title: Rethinking cancer : a new paradigm for the postgenomics era / edited by Bernhard Strauss, Marta Bertolaso, Ingemar Ernberg, and Mina J. Bissell.
Other titles: Vienna series in theoretical biology.
Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : The MIT Press, [2021] | Series: Vienna series in theoretical biology | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2020029807 | ISBN 9780262045216 (hardcover)
Subjects: MESH: Neoplasms--genetics | Neoplasms--therapy
Classification: LCC RC268.4 | NLM QZ 210 | DDC 616.99/4042--dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020029807
Contents
- Gerd B. Mller, Thomas Pradeu, and Katrin Schfer
- Bernhard Strauss, Marta Bertolaso, Ingemar Ernberg, and Mina J. Bissell
- Bernhard Strauss
- Marta Bertolaso and Bernhard Strauss
- Thea Newman
- Sui Huang
- Ingemar Ernberg
- Peter Csermely
- Kahn Rhrissorrakrai and Laxmi Parida
- Jacob Scott, David Basanta, and Andriy Marusyk
- Kimberly J. Bussey and Paul C. W. Davies
- Larry Norton
- Roger Oria, Dhruv Thakar, and Valerie M. Weaver
- Maa dralevi and Jacques Pouyssgur
- Luca Vincenzo Cappelli, Liron Yoffe, and Giorgio Inghirami
- Courtney Knig and Christoph A. Klein
- Emmy W. Verschuren
- Bernhard Strauss, Marta Bertolaso, Ingemar Ernberg, and Mina J. Bissell
List of Figures
A representation of the hierarchy of systems for a glass of water and a human. The dashed line demarcates the subatomic hierarchy that is assumed for our purposes to be common to all systems considered.
A collection of images representing a small subset of the many behaviors of a system of water molecules: (a) the atomic structure of a water molecule and clockwise: (b) frost pattern on glass, (c) mackerel cloud, (d) cresting wave, (e) splash pattern, (f) Rayleigh-Bnard convection cells (from Getling1), and (g) fluid vortex.
The fluid packet as a mesoscale construct; a stepping-stone across the river of scales separating H2O molecules and the system-level behavior of water.
Some of the key mesoscale stepping-stones linking copper atoms to metallic conductivity in copper wire.
A mesoscale construct connecting the interactions of progenitor cancer and immune cells with the likelihood of subsequent clinical cancer presentation (cf. Palmer et al.17).
Formalizing the complex system for two levels: the cell (whose components are interacting genes) and the tumor tissue or cell population (whose components are the interacting cell types). The interacting components abstracted as black solid circles are the nodes (vertices) of a network in which the edges/arrows represent the interactions. The nodes are symbols that represent genes (or biomolecules) or cell types. They thus represent an ensemble of identical components (a named species of objects, such as a gene or a cell type), not individual components, and can take a value (abundance), represented by the variable x i for node i.
Basic concepts from dynamical systems theory applied to a gene regulatory network, GRN (for cell as a system), or to a cell-cell interaction network (tumor tissue as a system). For details, see text. (A) The fixed network architecture of a system of N = 9 components i = 1, 2, 3 N as an example of a network. (B) The configuration of xi activities of each network component (black dots) displayed as column. The entire configuration defines a state S and changes over time t, dictated by the interaction network. (C) Example of a configuration of the vector [x1, x2, x N ] as a bar graph for the values of x i at t1. (D) The N-dimensional state space (indicated by the nine coordinate axes). (E) Dimension reduction of the nine-dimensional state space to a two-dimensional XY-plane. (F) The quasi-potential landscape plotted by assigning each position ( = state