Function-based discovery of significant transcriptional temporal patterns in insulin-stimulated muscle cells

Conclusion: In response to insulin, 326 genes were selected as differentially expressed in response to in vitro insulin treatment in skeletal muscle myotubes. Approximately 20% of the genes that were differentially expressed were identified as belonging to the insulin signaling pathway. 12 different clusters of gene expression profiles are identified which shows patterns that includes a slow and gradual decrease in gene expression, a gradual increase in gene expression reaching a peak at about 5 hours and then reaching a plateau or an initial decrease and other different variable patterns of increase in gene expression over time. As far as we know, this is the first systematic study in the literature monitoring transcriptional response to insulin in endothelial cells, in a time series microarray experiment.