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Exploring generic principles of compartmentalization in a developmental in vitro model

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Gires, Pierre-Yves ; Thampi, Mithun ; Krauß, Sebastian W. ; Weiss, Matthias:
Exploring generic principles of compartmentalization in a developmental in vitro model.
In: Development. Bd. 150 (2023) Heft 3 . - dev200851.
ISSN 1477-9129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1242/dev.200851

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Projektfinanzierung: volkswagenstiftung, Elitenetzwerk Bayern

Abstract

Self-organization of cells into higher-order structures is key for multicellular organisms, for example via repetitive replication of template-like founder cells or syncytial energids. Yet, very similar spatial arrangements of cell-like compartments (‘protocells’) are also seen in a minimal model system of Xenopus egg extracts in the absence of template structures and chromatin, with dynamic microtubule assemblies driving the self-organization process. Quantifying geometrical features over time, we show here that protocell patterns are highly organized with a spatial arrangement and coarsening dynamics similar to that of two-dimensional foams but without the long-range ordering expected for hexagonal patterns. These features remain invariant when enforcing smaller protocells by adding taxol, i.e. patterns are dominated by a single, microtubule-derived length scale. Comparing our data to generic models, we conclude that protocell patterns emerge by simultaneous formation of randomly assembling protocells that grow at a uniform rate towards a frustrated arrangement before fusion of adjacent protocells eventually drives coarsening. The similarity of protocell patterns to arrays of energids and cells in developing organisms, but also to epithelial monolayers, suggests generic mechanical cues to drive self-organized space compartmentalization.

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Publikationsform: Artikel in einer Zeitschrift
Begutachteter Beitrag: Ja
Institutionen der Universität: Fakultäten > Fakultät für Mathematik, Physik und Informatik > Physikalisches Institut > Lehrstuhl Experimentalphysik I - Physik lebender Materie > Lehrstuhl Experimentalphysik I - Physik lebender Materie - Univ.-Prof. Dr. Matthias Weiss
Fakultäten
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Mathematik, Physik und Informatik
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Mathematik, Physik und Informatik > Physikalisches Institut
Fakultäten > Fakultät für Mathematik, Physik und Informatik > Physikalisches Institut > Lehrstuhl Experimentalphysik I - Physik lebender Materie
Titel an der UBT entstanden: Ja
Themengebiete aus DDC: 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 530 Physik
500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik > 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie
Eingestellt am: 14 Feb 2023 08:04
Letzte Änderung: 04 Dec 2023 12:45
URI: https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/73665