Cell surface proteins play a crucial role in cell communication and in sensing changes in the extracellular environment.

Kanazawa University, demonstrate how morphogens combined with cell adhesion can generate tissue domains with a sharp boundary in an in vitro model system.

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By engineering gene expression responsive to artificial morphogens, we observe that coupling morphogen signals with cadherin-based adhesion is sufficient to convert a morphogen gradient into distinct ...