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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2025

Actin network heterogeneity tunes activator-inhibitor dynamics at the cell cortex.

Ondrej Maxian, Aaron R Dinner, Edwin Munro

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Ondrej MaxianDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0002-4770-1723
Aaron R DinnerInstitute for Biophysical Dynamics, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.ORCID 0000-0001-8328-6427
Edwin MunroDepartment of Molecular Genetics and Cell Biology, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 60637.

Funding

Dynamic control of actin network architecture in early C. elegans embryosR01GM143576 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO · PI MUNRO, EDWIN MARSHALL · 2021 to 2024
$2.1M
National Science Foundation (NSF) PHY-2317138NIGMS NIH HHS R01 GM143576
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Biological systems can display diverse patterns of self-organization, even when built on conserved networks of interaction between molecular species. In these cases, reaction-diffusion equations provide a valuable tool to learn how new dynamics could emerge from quantitative tuning of parameters. Bringing these models into quantitative correspondence with biological data remains an outstanding challenge, especially when the data manifest heterogeneities that are difficult to account for mathematically. One particular example occurs in cell biology, where the membrane-bound regulatory protein RhoA interacts with the filamentous actin cortex in an activator-inhibitor loop. Though this core biochemical circuit is conserved across multiple cell types in different organisms, it produces different patterns of RhoA activity in different contexts, from traveling waves in starfish to transient pulses in

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Actin CytoskeletonActinsModels, BiologicalrhoA GTP-Binding ProteinAnimalsCaenorhabditis elegansActinsrhoA GTP-Binding Proteinactin networksactivator–inhibitorreaction–diffusion modelsself-organization

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PMID41359843
PMCPMC12718379

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