{"database":"biostudies-literature","file_versions":[],"scores":null,"additional":{"omics_type":["Unknown"],"volume":["9(28)"],"submitter":["Zhu R"],"pubmed_abstract":["Developing tissues form spatial patterns by establishing concentration gradients of diffusible signaling proteins called morphogens. The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) morphogen pathway uses a family of extracellular modulators to reshape signaling gradients by actively \"shuttling\" ligands to different locations. It has remained unclear what circuits are sufficient to enable shuttling, what other patterns they can generate, and whether shuttling is evolutionarily conserved. Here, using a synthetic, bottom-up approach, we compared the spatiotemporal dynamics of different extracellular circuits. Three proteins-Chordin, Twsg, and the BMP-1 protease-successfully displaced gradients by shuttling ligands away from the site of production. A mathematical model explained the different spatial dyn"],"journal":["Science advances"],"pagination":["eadf9336"],"full_dataset_link":["https://www.ebi.ac.uk/biostudies/studies/S-EPMC10337948"],"repository":["biostudies-literature"],"pubmed_title":["Reconstitution of morphogen shuttling circuits."],"pmcid":["PMC10337948"],"pubmed_authors":["Gregrowicz J","Santat LA","Markson JS","Zhu R","Elowitz MB","Nandagopal N"],"additional_accession":[]},"is_claimable":false,"name":"Reconstitution of morphogen shuttling circuits.","description":"Developing tissues form spatial patterns by establishing concentration gradients of diffusible signaling proteins called morphogens. The bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) morphogen pathway uses a family of extracellular modulators to reshape signaling gradients by actively \"shuttling\" ligands to different locations. It has remained unclear what circuits are sufficient to enable shuttling, what other patterns they can generate, and whether shuttling is evolutionarily conserved. Here, using a synthetic, bottom-up approach, we compared the spatiotemporal dynamics of different extracellular circuits. Three proteins-Chordin, Twsg, and the BMP-1 protease-successfully displaced gradients by shuttling ligands away from the site of production. A mathematical model explained the different spatial dyn","dates":{"release":"2023-01-01T00:00:00Z","publication":"2023 Jul","modification":"2025-04-04T13:51:49.771Z","creation":"2025-04-04T13:51:49.771Z"},"accession":"S-EPMC10337948","cross_references":{"pubmed":["37436981"],"doi":["10.1126/sciadv.adf9336"]}}