Soh2020 - Spatio-temporal morphogen gradient and BMP signaling

This model couples BMP morphogen gradient formation with Smad signaling in zebrafish and reproduces Fig.3B of the referenced paper. mBMP4 diffuses and forms a morphogen gradient in the host tissue where differential signal transduction kinetics for pSmad2 versus pSmad5 lead to narrow (pSmad2) versus wide (pSmad5) signal activity ranges in response to the same morphogen gradient (mBMP4) as input. The model file is in MorpheusML format and can be opened in the free, open-source multicellular modeling software Morpheus (https://morpheus.gitlab.io) to simulate the time course (movie) of the spatio-temporal dynamics. Further optional plots of the radial solution profile and the time courses of mean concentrations over the domain are included and temporarily inactivated in the model file, in section Analysis.