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ArticlebioRxiv : the preprint server for biology2023

Gap junctions in Turing-type periodic feather pattern formation.

Chun-Chih Tseng, Thomas E Woolley, Ting-Xin Jiang, Ping Wu, Philip K Maini, Randall B Widelitz, Cheng-Ming Chuong

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Article in bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Chun-Chih TsengDepartment of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine, USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, U.S.A.
Thomas E WoolleySchool of Mathematics, Cardiff University, Senghennydd Road, Cardiff, CF24 4AG, U.K.
Ting-Xin JiangDepartment of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, U.S.A.
Ping WuDepartment of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, U.S.A.
Philip K MainiWolfson Centre for Mathematical Biology, Mathematical Institute, Andrew Wiles Building, University of Oxford, Radcliffe Observatory Quarter, Woodstock Road, Oxford OX2 6GG, U.K.
Randall B WidelitzDepartment of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, U.S.A.
Cheng-Ming ChuongDepartment of Pathology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, U.S.A.
University of Southern California · USCardiff University · GBMathematical Institute of the Slovak Academy of Sciences · SK

Funding

USC RESEARCH CENTER FOR LIVER DISEASES: PILOT PROGRAMSP30DK048522 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI OOKHTENS, MURAD · 1995 to 2020
$21.8M
Size regulation of skin appendagesR01AR047364 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Cheng-Ming Chuong · 2002 to 2026
$10.1M
Tissue Patterning in living skin and organ explantsR37AR060306 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI Cheng-Ming Chuong · 2020 to 2026
$3.6M
Channel activity during skin morphogenesisR01AR078050 · NIAMS · UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA · PI CHOW, ROBERT HSIU-PING, CHUONG, CHENG-MING · 2021 to 2025
$1.8M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR047364NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR078050NIAMS NIH HHS R37 AR060306NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK048522
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Abstract

Periodic patterning requires coordinated cell-cell interactions at the tissue level. Turing showed, using mathematical modeling, how spatial patterns could arise from the reactions of a diffusive activator-inhibitor pair in an initially homogenous two-dimensional field. Most activators and inhibitors studied in biological systems are proteins, and the roles of cell-cell interaction, ions, bioelectricity, etc. are only now being identified. Gap junctions (GJs) mediate direct exchanges of ions or small molecules between cells, enabling rapid long-distance communications in a cell collective. They are therefore good candidates for propagating non-protein-based patterning signals that may act according to the Turing principles. Here, we explore the possible roles of GJs in Turing-type patterning using feather pattern formation as a model. We found seven of the twelve investigated GJ isoforms are highly dynamically expressed in the developing chicken skin.

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cell communicationconnexinfeather morphogenesisperiodic pattern formationsecondary hair wave formationTuring model

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PMID37090608
PMCPMC10120740
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