Symmetry Breaking in Cells and Tissues

• Other Authors: Goryachev, Andrew (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Basel, Switzerland MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2021
• Subjects: Research & information: general; Biology, life sciences; actin waves; curved proteins; dynamic instability; podosomes; diffusion; cell polarity; Cdc42; stress; cellular memory; phase separation; prions; apoptotic extrusion; oncogenic extrusion; contractility; actomyosin; bottom-up synthetic biology; motor proteins; pattern formation; self-organization; cell motility; signal transduction; actin dynamics; intracellular waves; polarization; direction sensing; symmetry-breaking; biphasic responses; reaction-diffusion; membrane and cortical tension; cell fusion; cortexillin; cytokinesis; Dictyostelium; myosin; symmetry breaking; cytoplasmic flow; phase-space analysis; nonlinear waves; actin polymerization; bifurcation theory; mass conservation; spatial localization; activator-inhibitor models; developmental transitions; cell polarization; mathematical model; fission yeast; reaction-diffusion model; small GTPases; Cdc42 oscillations; pseudopod; Ras activation; cytoskeleton; chemotaxis; neutrophils; natural variation; modelling; activator-substrate mechanism; mass-conserved models; intracellular polarization; partial differential equations; sensitivity analysis; GTPase activating protein (GAP); fission yeast Schizosaccharomyces pombe; CRY2-CIBN; optogenetics; clustering; positive feedback; network evolution; Saccharomyces cerevisiae; polarity; modularity; neutrality; n/a
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"Symmetry Breaking in Cells and Tissues" presents a collection of seventeen reviews, opinions and original research papers contributed by theoreticians, physicists and mathematicians, as well as experimental biologists, united by a common interest in biological pattern formation and morpho...