Beyond the Genetic Code: A Tissue Code?
Boman, B. M.; Dinh, T.-N.; Decker, K.; Emerick, B.; Modarai, S.; Opdenaker, L.; Fields, J. Z.; Raymond, C.; Schleiniger, G.
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The genetic code determines how the precise amino acid sequence of proteins is specified by genomic information in cells. But what specifies the precise histologic organization of cells in plant and animal tissues is unclear. We now hypothesize that another code, the tissue code, exists at an even higher level of complexity which determines how tissue organization is dynamically maintained. Accordingly, we modeled spatial and temporal asymmetries of cell division and established that five simple mathematical laws ("the tissue code") convey a set of biological rules that maintain the specific organization and continuous self-renewal dynamics of cells in tissues. These laws might even help us understand wound healing, and how tissue disorganization leads to birth defects and tissue pathology like cancer.
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