A three-node Turing gene circuit forms periodic spatial patterns in bacteria

J Tica, M Oliver Huidobro, T Zhu, GKA Wachter… - bioRxiv, 2023 - biorxiv.org
Turing patterns1 are well-known self-organising systems that can form spots, stripes, or
labyrinths. They represent a major theory of patterning in tissue organisation, due to their …

Synthetic Turing patterns in engineered microbial consortia

S Duran-Nebreda, J Pla, B Vidiella, J Pinero, N Conde… - Biorxiv, 2020 - biorxiv.org
Multicellular entities are characterized by exquisite spatial patterns, intimately related to the
functions they perform. Oftentimes these patterns emerge as periodic structures with a well …

Beyond activator-inhibitor networks: the generalised Turing mechanism

S Smith, N Dalchau - arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07886, 2018 - arxiv.org
The Turing patterning mechanism is believed to underly the formation of repetitive structures
in development, such as zebrafish stripes and mammalian digits, but it has proved difficult to …

Stochastic Turing patterns in a synthetic bacterial population

D Karig, KM Martini, T Lu… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
The origin of biological morphology and form is one of the deepest problems in science,
underlying our understanding of development and the functioning of living systems. In 1952 …

[HTML][HTML] High-throughput mathematical analysis identifies Turing networks for patterning with equally diffusing signals

L Marcon, X Diego, J Sharpe, P Müller - Elife, 2016 - elifesciences.org
The Turing reaction-diffusion model explains how identical cells can self-organize to form
spatial patterns. It has been suggested that extracellular signaling molecules with different …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling biochemical spatial patterns: Machine learning approaches to the inverse problem of stationary Turing patterns

A Matas-Gil, RG Endres - Iscience, 2024 - cell.com
The diffusion-driven Turing instability is a potential mechanism for spatial pattern formation
in numerous biological and chemical systems. However, engineering these patterns and …

[HTML][HTML] A feedback quenched oscillator produces turing patterning with one diffuser

J Hsia, WJ Holtz, DC Huang, M Arcak… - PLoS computational …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Efforts to engineer synthetic gene networks that spontaneously produce patterning in
multicellular ensembles have focused on Turing's original model and the “activator-inhibitor” …

Unraveling biochemical spatial patterns: machine learning approaches to the inverse problem of Turing patterns

A Matas-Gil, RG Endres - arXiv preprint arXiv:2309.06339, 2023 - arxiv.org
The diffusion-driven Turing instability is a potential mechanism for spatial pattern formation
in numerous biological and chemical systems. However, engineering these patterns and …

[HTML][HTML] A comprehensive network atlas reveals that Turing patterns are common but not robust

NS Scholes, D Schnoerr, M Isalan, MPH Stumpf - Cell systems, 2019 - cell.com
Turing patterns (TPs) underlie many fundamental developmental processes, but they
operate over narrow parameter ranges, raising the conundrum of how evolution can ever …

The design principles of discrete Turing patterning systems

T Leyshon, E Tonello, D Schnoerr, H Siebert… - Journal of Theoretical …, 2021 - Elsevier
The formation of spatial structures lies at the heart of developmental processes. However,
many of the underlying gene regulatory and biochemical processes remain poorly …