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Cost-precision trade-off relation determines the optimal morphogen gradient for accurate biological pattern formation
- Authors
- Song, Y., Hyeon, C.
- Source
- Full text @ Elife
(Top) The specification of the anterior region of the fruit fly embryo. The uniformly distributed nuclei (gray circles) are subjected to different concentrations of the morphogen (red dots) in the local environment, which leads to the anterior expression of the target gene (blue shade). (Bottom) The red and blue lines respectively depict the morphogen profile, , and the target gene expression, , which together specify cell fate. The squared positional error at the boundary , , is defined as the product between the variance of the morphogen concentration, , and the squared inverse slope of the morphogen profile, .
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(a) Schematic of the model. (b) The position-dependent lower bound of the trade-off product , obtained numerically. The gray hashed area represent the inaccessible regions. The trade-off product of the morphogen profiles of Bcd, Wg, Hh, and Dpp are shown in the respective insets. (c) The black line denotes the optimal characteristic decay length () with respect to the position . The color scale indicates the trade-off product computed for each pair of and values. The grea dotted line depicts the linear approximation of at large . In (b) and (c), the depicted trade-off product is normalized by . The parameters for the naturally occurring morphogen profiles are further described in Appendix 3, Length scales of Bcd, Wg, Hh, and Dpp, and Appendix 3—table 1.
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(a) Schematic of the model. (b) The optimal trade-off product obtained numerically with respect to the location of the target boundary position normalized by the sensor size (). The gray hashed area represent the inaccessible regions. Shown are the trade-off products of the morphogens profiles of Bcd, Wg, Hh, and Dpp. (c) The black line denotes the optimal characteristic decay length () with respect to the position . The color scale indicates the trade-off product computed for each pair of and values. The gray dotted line depicts the linear approximation of . The white dotted line depicts the linear approximation of for the point measurement model. In (b) and (c), the depicted trade-off product is normalized by . The parameters for the naturally occurring morphogen profiles are further described in the Appendix 3, Length scales of Bcd, Wg, Hh, and Dpp, and Appendix 3—table 1.
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(a) Three possible morphogen profiles (i) (red), (ii) (cyan), (iii) (brown) with different λ’s (), generated with different values of morphogen influxes (). The morphogen concentration of the three profiles coincide at , giving rise to the same threshold value but different positional errors (). (b) The precision of three possible morphogen profiles (i) (red), (ii) (cyan), (iii) (brown) with different λ’s (), generated with different values of morphogen influxes (). The λ values are identical to those with matching colors in (a), but the red and brown curves are generated with different values from those in (a). The cost associated with each morphogen profile are shown in units of . (c) The diagram of the trade-off product associated with the point measurement, , plotted with respect to and λ. The black line indicates the optimal decay length, at position . Shown on the diagram are the trade-off product ’s for the three cases shown in (a) and (b). (d) The value of as a function of λ at . The trade-off product is minimized to with .
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