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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Apr 15.
Published in final edited form as: Sci Signal. 2013 Jul 16;6(284):ra58. doi: 10.1126/scisignal.2003994

Fig. 1. Schematic of perturbation-based profiling for analysis of RTK-specific signaling networks.

Fig. 1

Six isogenic cell lines expressing EGFR, FGFR1, c-Met, IGF-1R, NTRK2, or PDGFRβ were treated with lentiviral shRNA expression vectors to modulate the abundance of 38 downstream signaling proteins. Upon stimulation with RTK-specific ligands, time-dependent signaling events were monitored by probing for changes in the phosphorylation [post-translational modification (PTM)] of specific sites in downstream proteins using high-throughput lysate microarrays. The resulting compendium of signaling measurements, constituting more than half a million individual data points, served as a starting point for network inference.