PUBLICATION
A proliferation gradient between proximal and msxb-expressing distal blastema directs zebrafish fin regeneration
- Authors
- Nechiporuk, A. and Keating, M.T.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-020521-2
- Date
- 2002
- Source
- Development (Cambridge, England) 129(11): 2607-2617 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keating, Mark T., Nechiporuk, Alex
- Keywords
- zebrafish regeneration; blastema; proliferation; BrdU incorporation; cell cycle; msxb
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cell Division
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/cytology
- Embryo, Nonmammalian/physiology*
- Extremities/embryology*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental*
- Homeodomain Proteins/analysis
- Homeodomain Proteins/genetics*
- Immunohistochemistry
- Morphogenesis
- Regeneration/physiology*
- Zebrafish/embryology*
- Zebrafish Proteins/analysis
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- PubMed
- 12015289 Full text @ Development
Citation
Nechiporuk, A. and Keating, M.T. (2002) A proliferation gradient between proximal and msxb-expressing distal blastema directs zebrafish fin regeneration. Development (Cambridge, England). 129(11):2607-2617.
Abstract
Previous studies of zebrafish fin regeneration led to the notion that the regeneration blastema is a homogeneous population of proliferating cells. Here, we show that the blastema consists of two components with markedly distinct proliferation properties. During early blastema formation, proliferating cells are evenly distributed. At the onset of regenerative outgrowth, however, blastemal cells are partitioned into two domains. Proximal blastemal cells proliferate at a high rate, shifting from a median G(2) of more than 6 hours to approximately 1 hour. By contrast, the most distal blastemal cells do not proliferate. There is a gradient of proliferation between these extremes. Using bromodeoxyuridine incorporation and anti-phosphohistone H3 labeling, we find a 50-fold difference in proliferation across the gradient that extends approximately 50 μm, or ten cell diameters. We show that during early regeneration, proliferating blastemal cells express msxb, a homeodomain transcriptional repressor. While msxb is widely expressed among proliferating cells during blastema formation, its expression becomes restricted to a small number of non-proliferating, distal blastemal cells during regenerative outgrowth. Bromodeoxyuridine pulse-chase experiments show that distal and proximal blastemal cells are formed from proliferating, msxb-positive blastemal cells, not from preexisting slow-cycling cells. These data support the idea that blastema formation results from dedifferentiation of intraray mesenchymal cells. Based on these findings, we propose a new model of zebrafish fin regeneration in which the function of non-proliferating, msxb-expressing, distal blastemal cells is to specify the boundary of proliferation and provide direction for regenerative outgrowth.
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