RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 Cellular heterogeneity and lineage restriction during mouse digit tip regeneration at single cell resolution
JF bioRxiv
FD Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
SP 737023
DO 10.1101/737023
A1 Gemma L. Johnson
A1 Erick J. Masias
A1 Jessica A. Lehoczky
YR 2019
UL http://biorxiv.org/content/early/2019/08/15/737023.abstract
AB Innate regeneration following digit tip amputation is one of the few examples of epimorphic regeneration in mammals. Digit tip regeneration is mediated by the blastema, the same structure invoked during limb regeneration in some lower vertebrates. By genetic lineage analyses in mice, the digit tip blastema has been defined as a population of heterogeneous, lineage restricted progenitor cells. These previous studies, however, do not comprehensively evaluate blastema heterogeneity or address lineage restriction of closely related cell types. In this report we present single cell RNA sequencing of over 38,000 cells from mouse digit tip blastemas and unamputated control digit tips and generate an atlas of the cell types participating in digit tip regeneration. We define the differentiation trajectories of vascular, monocytic, and fibroblastic lineages over regeneration, and while our data confirm broad lineage restriction of progenitors, our analysis reveals an early blastema fibroblast population expressing a novel regeneration-specific gene, Mest.