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Hromowyk et al., 2020 - Cell fusion is differentially regulated in zebrafish post-embryonic slow and fast muscle
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Fig. 6

Cell proliferation and Pax7-positive satellite-like cell number are dramatically increased in adult mymk mutants. (A, B) Transverse sections near the horizontal myoseptum (HM) of wild-type (WT) (A) and mymk mutant (B) adult skeletal muscle showing Pcna expression (grey) which marks proliferating nuclei. (A′ and B′) Magnified images of boxed regions in A and B. (C) Graph showing the average number of Pcna-positive cells per mm2 near the HM in WT and mymk mutant adults. (D, E) Transverse sections of pax7a:GFP (green); myog:H2B-mRFP (magenta) transgenic WT (D) and mymk mutant (E) adult skeletal muscle co-labeled for Pax7 (red), Rbfox1l (blue), and pax7a:GFP (green). pax7a:GFP marks satellite-like cells (SLCs) as well as cells that have begun to differentiate; SLCs can be unambiguously identified by their intensely Pax7-positive nuclei. myog:H2B-mRFP (magenta) marks myonuclei; expression of myog:H2B-mRFP and pax7a:GFP transgenes rarely overlap in adult WT muscle (Berberoglu et al., 2017). (F) The average number of Pax7-positive cells per mm2 near the HM and in dorsal fast muscle of WT and mymk mutant adults. (G-K′) Magnified views of boxed regions in D and E show the merged (G, G′) and individual confocal channels for Pax7 (H, H′), pax7a:GFP (I, I′), myog:H2B-mRFP (J, J′) and Rbfox1l (K, K′) in adult WT (G–K) and mymk mutant (G′-K′) muscle. Arrowheads indicate SLCs (yellow), myoblasts (teal), and myofibers (magenta). (L) Summary of cell types based on expression overlap. (M) Number of SLCs (strongly Pax7-positive and GFP-positive), myoblasts (GFP- and Rbfox1l-positive), and myofibers (Rbfox1l- and RFP-positive) in WT and mymk mutant adult slow and fast muscle domains. Student’s t-test (p∗∗∗ ​< ​0.001, p∗∗ ​< ​0.01). Scale bar in B (for A and B) and E (for D, E) is 100 ​μm, in B’ (for A′ and B′) is 15 ​μm, and in K’ (for G-K′) is 20 ​μm.

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Reprinted from Developmental Biology, 462(1), Hromowyk, K.J., Talbot, J.C., Martin, B.L., Janssen, P.M.L., Amacher, S.L., Cell fusion is differentially regulated in zebrafish post-embryonic slow and fast muscle, 85-100, Copyright (2020) with permission from Elsevier. Full text @ Dev. Biol.