Oscillators articles within Nature

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• Article | 14 December 2022

  Periodic inhibition of Erk activity drives sequential somite segmentation

  The zebrafish segmentation clock drives sequential segmentation of somites by periodically lowering double-phosphorylated Erk and therefore projecting its oscillation on the double-phosphorylated Erk gradient.

  • M. Fethullah Simsek
  • , Angad Singh Chandel
  •  & Ertuğrul M. Özbudak

• Letter | 12 October 2016

  Synchronous long-term oscillations in a synthetic gene circuit

  The first synthetic genetic oscillator or ‘repressilator’ is simplified using insights from stochastic theory, thus achieving remarkably precise and robust oscillations and informing current debates about the next generation of synthetic circuits and their potential applications in cell-based therapies.

  • Laurent Potvin-Trottier
  • , Nathan D. Lord
  •  & Johan Paulsson

• Article | 21 October 2015

  Ion channels enable electrical communication in bacterial communities

  Ion channels in bacterial biofilms are shown to conduct long-range electrical signals within the biofilm community through the propagation of potassium ions; as predicted by a simple mathematical model, potassium channel gating is shown to coordinate metabolic states between distant cells via electrical communication.

  • Arthur Prindle
  • , Jintao Liu
  •  & Gürol M. Süel

• Article | 22 July 2015

  Metabolic co-dependence gives rise to collective oscillations within biofilms

  The emergence of long-range metabolic co-dependence within a biofilm drives oscillations in growth that resolve a social conflict between cooperation and competition, thereby increasing community-level fitness against chemical attack.

  • Jintao Liu
  • , Arthur Prindle
  •  & Gürol M. Süel