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ReviewDevelopment (Cambridge, England)2019

Communication codes in developmental signaling pathways.

Pulin Li, Michael B Elowitz

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Review in Development (Cambridge, England), 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 49 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

49 citing papers in PubMed.

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  7. Spatial Modeling of Tissues for Morphogenic Field Analysis.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025
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  15. Principles of Computation by Competitive Protein Dimerization Networks.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024
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  16. Mechanical convergence in mixed populations of mammalian epithelial cells.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2024
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Pulin LiWhitehead Institute for Biomedical Research, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
Michael B ElowitzDivision of Biology and Biological Engineering, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA melowitz@caltech.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-1221-0967

Funding

Spatio-Temporal Signaling Dynamics in Neuronal Cell Fate Decision and PatterningR00HD087532 · NICHD · WHITEHEAD INSTITUTE FOR BIOMEDICAL RES · PI LI, PULIN · 2019 to 2021
$736k
Spatio-Temporal Signaling Dynamics in Neuronal Cell Fate Decision and PatterningK99HD087532 · NICHD · CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY · PI LI, PULIN · 2016 to 2017
$200k
Howard Hughes Medical InstituteNICHD NIH HHS R00 HD087532
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

A handful of core intercellular signaling pathways play pivotal roles in a broad variety of developmental processes. It has remained puzzling how so few pathways can provide the precision and specificity of cell-cell communication required for multicellular development. Solving this requires us to quantitatively understand how developmentally relevant signaling information is actively sensed, transformed and spatially distributed by signaling pathways. Recently, single cell analysis and cell-based reconstitution, among other approaches, have begun to reveal the 'communication codes' through which information is represented in the identities, concentrations, combinations and dynamics of extracellular ligands. They have also revealed how signaling pathways decipher these features and control the spatial distribution of signaling in multicellular contexts. Here, we review recent work reporting the discovery and analysis of communication codes and discuss their implications for diverse developmental processes.

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Cell CommunicationSignal TransductionAnimalsDevelopmental BiologyDrug DesignHumansLigandsMiceModels, BiologicalProtein EngineeringRegenerative MedicineSingle-Cell AnalysisStochastic ProcessesLigandsCommunication codesPathway architectureSignal processing

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PMID31249008
PMCPMC6602343

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