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Unified quantitative characterization of epithelial tissue development

  1. Boris Guirao
  2. Stéphane U Rigaud
  3. Floris Bosveld
  4. Anaïs Bailles
  5. Jesus Lopez-Gay
  6. Shuji Ishihara
  7. Kaoru Sugimura
  8. François Graner
  9. Yohanns Bellaïche  Is a corresponding author
  1. Institut Curie, France
  2. Aix Marseille Université, France
  3. Meiji University, Japan
  4. Kyoto University, Japan
  5. Univsersité Paris-Diderot, France
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08519
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  1. Boris Guirao
  2. Stéphane U Rigaud
  3. Floris Bosveld
  4. Anaïs Bailles
  5. Jesus Lopez-Gay
  6. Shuji Ishihara
  7. Kaoru Sugimura
  8. François Graner
  9. Yohanns Bellaïche
(2015)
Unified quantitative characterization of epithelial tissue development
eLife 4:e08519.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08519
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Abstract

Understanding the mechanisms regulating development requires a quantitative characterization of cell divisions, rearrangements, cell size and shape changes, and apoptoses. We developed a multiscale formalism that relates the characterizations of each cell process to tissue growth and morphogenesis. Having validated the formalism on computer simulations, we quantifed separately all morphogenetic events in the Drosophila wing and dorsal thorax pupal epithelia to obtain comprehensive statistical maps linking cell and tissue scale dynamics. While globally cell shape changes, rearrangements and divisions all signifcantly participate in tissue morphogenesis, locally, their relative participations display major variations in space and time. By blocking division we analyzed the impact of division on rearrangements, cell shape changes and tissue morphogenesis. Finally, by combining the formalism with mechanical stress measurement, we evidenced unexpected interplays between patterns of tissue elongation, cell division and stress. Our formalism provides a novel and rigorous approach to uncover mechanisms governing tissue development.

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  1. Boris Guirao

    Polarity, Division and Morphogenesis Team, Génétique et biologie du développement, Institut Curie, Paris, France
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  2. Stéphane U Rigaud

    Polarity, Division and Morphogenesis Team, Génétique et biologie du développement, Institut Curie, Paris, France
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  3. Floris Bosveld

    Polarity, Division and Morphogenesis Team, Génétique et biologie du développement, Institut Curie, Paris, France
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  4. Anaïs Bailles

    Institut de Biologie du Développement de Marseille, Aix Marseille Université, Paris, France
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  5. Jesus Lopez-Gay

    Polarity, Division and Morphogenesis Team, Génétique et biologie du développement, Institut Curie, Paris, France
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  6. Shuji Ishihara

    Department of Physics, School of Science and Technology, Meiji University, Kanagawa, Japan
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  7. Kaoru Sugimura

    Institute for Integrated Cell-Material Sceinces, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan
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  8. François Graner

    Laboratoire Matière et Systèmes Complexes, Univsersité Paris-Diderot, Paris, France
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  9. Yohanns Bellaïche

    Polarity, Division and Morphogenesis Team, Génétique et biologie du développement, Institut Curie, Paris, France
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  1. Naama Barkai, Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel

Publication history

  1. Received: May 6, 2015
  2. Accepted: November 3, 2015
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: December 12, 2015 (version 1)
  4. Accepted Manuscript updated: December 15, 2015 (version 2)
  5. Version of Record published: March 22, 2016 (version 3)

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© 2015, Guirao et al.

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  1. Boris Guirao
  2. Stéphane U Rigaud
  3. Floris Bosveld
  4. Anaïs Bailles
  5. Jesus Lopez-Gay
  6. Shuji Ishihara
  7. Kaoru Sugimura
  8. François Graner
  9. Yohanns Bellaïche
(2015)
Unified quantitative characterization of epithelial tissue development
eLife 4:e08519.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.08519

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