Morphogen-regulated contact-mediated signaling between cells can drive the transitions underlying body segmentation in vertebrates
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| author | Kuyyamudi, Chandrashekar Menon, Shakti N. Sinha, Sitabhra |
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| contents | We propose a unified mechanism that reproduces the sequence of dynamical transitions observed during somitogenesis, the process of body segmentation during embryonic development, that is invariant across all vertebrate species. This is achieved by combining inter-cellular interactions mediated via receptor-ligand coupling with global spatial heterogeneity introduced through a morphogen gradient known to occur along the anteroposterior axis. Our model reproduces synchronized oscillations in the gene expression in cells at the anterior of the presomitic mesoderm (PSM) as it grows by adding new cells at its posterior, followed by traveling waves and subsequent arrest of activity, with the eventual appearance of somite-like patterns. This framework integrates a boundary-organized pattern formation mechanism, which uses positional information provided by a morphogen gradient, with the coupling-mediated self-organized emergence of collective dynamics, to explain the processes that lead to segmentation. |
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| spellingShingle | Morphogen-regulated contact-mediated signaling between cells can drive the transitions underlying body segmentation in vertebrates Kuyyamudi, Chandrashekar Menon, Shakti N. Sinha, Sitabhra Tissues and Organs Pattern Formation and Solitons Biological Physics We propose a unified mechanism that reproduces the sequence of dynamical transitions observed during somitogenesis, the process of body segmentation during embryonic development, that is invariant across all vertebrate species. This is achieved by combining inter-cellular interactions mediated via receptor-ligand coupling with global spatial heterogeneity introduced through a morphogen gradient known to occur along the anteroposterior axis. Our model reproduces synchronized oscillations in the gene expression in cells at the anterior of the presomitic mesoderm (PSM) as it grows by adding new cells at its posterior, followed by traveling waves and subsequent arrest of activity, with the eventual appearance of somite-like patterns. This framework integrates a boundary-organized pattern formation mechanism, which uses positional information provided by a morphogen gradient, with the coupling-mediated self-organized emergence of collective dynamics, to explain the processes that lead to segmentation. |
| title | Morphogen-regulated contact-mediated signaling between cells can drive the transitions underlying body segmentation in vertebrates |
| topic | Tissues and Organs Pattern Formation and Solitons Biological Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2003.12493 |