Finding the center reliably: robust patterns of developmental gene expression

Details Finding the center reliably: robust patterns of developmental gene expression Finding the center reliably: robust patterns of developmental gene expression

2005-11-10

arxiv.org/abs/q-bio/0511011v1

Phys. Rev. Lett. 95, 208103 (2005)

Biology

Quantitative Biology

Tissues and Organs

4 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.95.208103

We investigate a mechanism for the robust identification of the center of a developing biological system. We assume the existence of two morphogen gradients, an activator emanating from the anterior, and a co-repressor from the posterior. The co-repressor inhibits the action of the activator in switching on target genes. We apply this system to Drosophila embryos, where we predict the existence of a hitherto undetected posterior co-repressor. Using mathematical modelling, we show that a symmetric activator-co-repressor model can quantitatively explain the precise mid-embryo expression boundary of the hunchback gene, and the scaling of this pattern with embryo size.

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