2D effects enhance precision of gradient-based tissue patterning.

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Department of Biosystems Science and Engineering, ETH Zürich, Mattenstrasse 26, 4058 Basel, Switzerland.

Published: October 2023

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Robust embryonic development requires pattern formation with high spatial accuracy. In epithelial tissues that are patterned by morphogen gradients, the emerging patterns achieve levels of precision that have recently been explained by a simple one-dimensional reaction-diffusion model with kinetic noise. Here, we show that patterning precision is even greater if transverse diffusion effects are at play in such tissues. The positional error, a measure for spatial patterning accuracy, decreases in wider tissues but then saturates beyond a width of about ten cells. This demonstrates that the precision of gradient-based patterning in two- or higher-dimensional systems can be even greater than predicted by 1D models, and further attests to the potential of noisy morphogen gradients for high-precision tissue patterning.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10550716PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.isci.2023.107880DOI Listing

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