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Cell Systems Bioelectricity: How Different Intercellular Gap Junctions Could Regionalize a Multicellular Aggregate

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CANCERS
卷 13, 期 21, 页码 -

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MDPI
DOI: 10.3390/cancers13215300

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cell bioelectricity; electric potential patterns; ion channels; intercellular gap junctions; tumorigenesis

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  1. Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion (Spain)
  2. European Regional Development Funds (FEDER) [PGC2018-097359-B-I00]
  3. Allen Discovery Center award from The Paul G. Allen Frontiers Group [12171]
  4. Templeton World Charity Foundation [TWCF0089/AB55]
  5. Barton Family Foundation
  6. Guy Foundation Family Trust
  7. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) [HR0011-18-2-0022]
  8. University of Valencia

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Electric potential patterns across tissues can influence transcription, proliferation, migration, and differentiation in cell systems. Understanding the origins of spatial domains of distinct potential and their relationship to ion channels and gap junctions is critical for evolutionary developmental biology and regenerative medicine. Modulating bioelectrical patterns externally can offer qualitative insights into the dynamics of cell system bioelectricity.
Simple Summary: Electric potential patterns across tissues are instructive for development, regeneration, and tumorigenesis because they can influence transcription, migration, and differentiation through biochemical and biomechanical downstream processes. Determining the origins of the spatial domains of distinct potential, which in turn decide anatomical features such as limbs, eyes, brain, and heart, is critical to a mature understanding of how bioelectric signaling drives morphogenesis. We studied theoretically how connexin proteins with different voltage-gated gap junction conductances can maintain multicellular regions at distinct membrane potentials. We analyzed a minimal model that incorporates effective conductances ultimately related to specific ion channel and junction proteins that are amenable to external regulation. We also consider a bioelectrical relationship between the connexin composition of the intercellular gap junction and different stages of cancer. Electric potential distributions can act as instructive pre-patterns for development, regeneration, and tumorigenesis in cell systems. The biophysical states influence transcription, proliferation, cell shape, migration, and differentiation through biochemical and biomechanical downstream transduction processes. A major knowledge gap is the origin of spatial patterns in vivo, and their relationship to the ion channels and the electrical synapses known as gap junctions. Understanding this is critical for basic evolutionary developmental biology as well as for regenerative medicine. We computationally show that cells may express connexin proteins with different voltage-gated gap junction conductances as a way to maintain multicellular regions at distinct membrane potentials. We show that increasing the multicellular connectivity via enhanced junction function does not always contribute to the bioelectrical normalization of abnormally depolarized multicellular patches. From a purely electrical junction view, this result suggests that the reduction rather than the increase of specific connexin levels can also be a suitable bioelectrical approach in some cases and time stages. We offer a minimum model that incorporates effective conductances ultimately related to specific ion channel and junction proteins that are amenable to external regulation. We suggest that the bioelectrical patterns and their encoded instructive information can be externally modulated by acting on the mean fields of cell systems, a complementary approach to that of acting on the molecular characteristics of individual cells. We believe that despite the limitations of a biophysically focused model, our approach can offer useful qualitative insights into the collective dynamics of cell system bioelectricity.

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