KIAA1735/Dixin DIX domain containing 1 (DIXDC1) : Time behavioural study of 3rd order combinations in WNT3A stimulated HEK 293 cells

DIXDC1, when active, is known to stop cancer metastasis due to extreme stickiness, both in vitro and in vivo and it turns out to be inhibited in cancer and mestastasis. Gujral and MacBeath [1] provides a quantitative, and dynamic study of WNT3A-mediated stimulation of HEK 293 cells, where they record time based expression profiles of several response genes which correlated significantly with proliferation and migration. By monitoring the dynamics of gene expression using self-organizing maps, they identified clusters of genes that exhibit similar expression dynamics and uncovered previously unrecognized positive and negative feedback loops. However, their study depicts/uses singular measurements of individual gene expression at different time snapshots/points to infer the system wide analysis of the pathway. At any particular time point, it is often the case that genes are working synergistically in combinations, even though their expression measurements are singular in nature. Here, I • enumerate and rank all 2415 DIXDC1 related 3rd order combinations in a forest of 71C3 combinations using four different sensitivity methods; • show the conserved rankings for DIXDC1-X-X combinations, which point to existence of biological synergy of some of these combinations across the different sensitivity methods; and • study the behaviour of some of these combinations related to WNT3A response genes that are ranked by the machine learn- ing search engine (Sinha [2]) in time. Patterns of combinations emerge, some of which have been tested in wet lab, while others require further wet lab analysis.