Contact-mediated cellular communication supplements positional information to regulate spatial patterning during development
Development in multi-cellular organisms is marked by a high degree of spatial organization of the cells attaining distinct fates in the embryo. We show that receptor-ligand interaction between cells in close physical proximity adaptively regulates the local process of selective gene expression in the presence of a global field set up by a diffusing morphogen that provides positional cues. This allows information from the cellular neighborhood to be incorporated into the emergent thresholds of morphogen concentration that dictate cell fate, consistent with recent experiments.
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