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On binding with 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin (TCDD), however, AhR becomes abnormally activated and conveys toxic effects on cells. Despite many related studies on the TCDD-mediated toxicity, quantitative system-level understanding of how TCDD-mediated toxicity generates various toxic responses is still lacking.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Results: Here, we present a manually curated TCDD-mediated AhR signaling pathway including crosstalks with the hypoxia pathway that copes with oxygen deficiency and the p53 pathway that induces a DNA damage response. Based on the integrated pathway, we have constructed a mathematical model and validated it through quantitative experiments. Using the mathematical model, we have investigated: (i) TCDD dose-dependent effects on AhR target genes; (ii) the crosstalk effect between AhR and hypoxia signals; and (iii) p53 inhibition effect of TCDD-liganded AhR. Our results show that cellular intake of TCDD induces AhR signaling pathway to be abnormally up-regulated and thereby interrupts other signaling pathways. Interruption of hypoxia and p53 pathways, in turn, can incur various hazardous effects on cells. Taken together, our study provides a system-level understanding of how AhR signal mediates various TCDD-induced toxicities under the presence of hypoxia and\/or DNA damage in cells.<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Contact: \u00a0ckh@kaist.ac.kr<\/jats:p>\n               <jats:p>Supplementary information: \u00a0Supplementary data are available at Bioinformatics online.<\/jats:p>","DOI":"10.1093\/bioinformatics\/btq400","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2010,7,8]],"date-time":"2010-07-08T02:50:45Z","timestamp":1278557445000},"page":"2169-2175","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":10,"title":["A system-level investigation into the cellular toxic response mechanism mediated by AhR signal transduction pathway"],"prefix":"10.1093","volume":"26","author":[{"given":"Jungsoo","family":"Gim","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"1 Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST), 335 Gwahangno, Yuseong-gu, Daejeon 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