Emergence of self-organizational patterning at the mesoscopic scale

Michel C Milinkovitch

doi:10.1016/j.devcel.2021.03.003

Emergence of self-organizational patterning at the mesoscopic scale

Dev Cell. 2021 Mar 22;56(6):719-721. doi: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.03.003.

Author

Michel C Milinkovitch¹

Affiliation

¹ Laboratory of Artificial and Natural Evolution (LANE), Department of Genetics and Evolution, University of Geneva, Sciences III, 30, Quai Ernest-Ansermet, 1211 Geneva 4, Switzerland; SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, Geneva, Switzerland. Electronic address: Michel.Milinkovitch@unige.ch.

PMID: 33756116
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.03.003

Abstract

In this issue of Developmental Cell, Chuyen et al. (2021) suggest that the Scf/Kit pathway controls mutual repulsion of multiciliated cells and their affinity for epidermal cell junctions through soluble and membrane-associated Scf ligands, respectively. Effective self-organizational patterning emerges at the mesoscopic scale as a small set of effective behaviors.

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MeSH terms

Humans
Ligands
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit*
Stem Cell Factor*

Substances

Ligands
Stem Cell Factor
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-kit