Dept. Termodinàmica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de València, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain.
Dept. Termodinàmica, Facultat de Física, Universitat de València, E-46100 Burjassot, Spain.
J Theor Biol. 2023 Feb 7;558:111356. doi: 10.1016/j.jtbi.2022.111356. Epub 2022 Nov 17.
Head-tail planaria morphologies are influenced by the electric potential differences across the animal's primary axis, as evidenced e.g. by voltage-sensitive dyes and functional experiments that create permanent lines of 2-headed but genetically wild-type animals. However, bioelectrical and biochemical models that make predictions on what would happen in the case of spatial chimeras made by tissue transplantation from different planaria (different species and head shapes) are lacking. Here, we use a bioelectrical model to qualitatively describe the effects of tissue transplantation on the shape of the regenerated head. To this end, we assume that the cells may have distinct sets of ion channels and ascribe the system outcome to the axial distributions of average cell potentials over morphologically relevant regions. Our rationale is that the distributions of signaling ions and molecules are spatially coupled with multicellular electric potentials. Thus, long-time downstream transcriptional events should be triggered by short-time bioelectrical processes. We show that relatively small differences between the ion channel characteristics of the cells could eventually give noticeable changes in the electric potential profiles and the expected morphological deviations, which suggests that small but timely bioelectrical actions may have significant morphological effects. Our approach is based on the observed relationships between bioelectrical regionalization and biochemical gradients in body-plan studies. Such models are relevant to regenerative, developmental, and cancer biology in which cells with distinct properties and morphogenetic target states confront each other in the same tissue.
头-尾涡虫形态受动物主轴跨距的电势差影响,例如电压敏感染料和功能性实验可产生永久性双头,但遗传上为野生型动物的线。然而,缺乏关于由来自不同涡虫(不同物种和头型)的组织移植创建空间嵌合体的情况下会发生什么情况的生物电和生化模型的预测。在这里,我们使用生物电模型定性描述组织移植对再生头形状的影响。为此,我们假设细胞可能具有不同的离子通道集,并将系统结果归因于形态相关区域中平均细胞电势的轴向分布。我们的基本原理是,信号离子和分子的分布与多细胞电势空间耦合。因此,长期下游转录事件应该由短期生物电过程触发。我们表明,细胞的离子通道特性之间的相对较小差异最终可能导致电势分布和预期形态偏差的明显变化,这表明小而及时的生物电作用可能具有显著的形态效应。我们的方法基于生物电区域化与身体计划研究中的生化梯度之间的观察关系。这种模型与再生、发育和癌症生物学相关,其中具有不同特性和形态发生靶状态的细胞在同一组织中相互面对。
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