Loss of Ptpn11 (Shp2) drives satellite cells into quiescence
- Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine in the Helmholtz Society, Germany
- Charité, Germany
- Children's Cancer Therapy Development Institute, United States
- Leibniz Institute for Molecular Pharmacology, Germany
Abstract
The equilibrium between proliferation and quiescence of myogenic progenitor and stem cells is tightly regulated to ensure appropriate muscle growth and repair. The non-receptor tyrosine phosphatase Ptpn11 (Shp2) is an important transducer of growth factor and cytokine signals. Here we combined complex genetic analyses, biochemical studies and pharmacological interference to demonstrate a central role of Ptpn11 in postnatal myogenesis of mice. Loss of Ptpn11 drove muscle stem cells out of the proliferative and into a resting state during muscle growth. This Ptpn11 function was observed in postnatal but not fetal myogenic stem cells. Furthermore, muscle repair was severely perturbed when Ptpn11 was ablated in stem cells due to a deficit in stem cell proliferation and survival. Our data demonstrate a molecular difference in the control of cell cycle withdrawal in fetal and postnatal myogenic stem cells, and assign to Ptpn11 signaling a key function in satellite cell activity.
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Genome wide expression analysis of FACS-isolated Shp2 mutant neonatal myogenic progenitor cellsPublicly available at the NCBI Gene Expression Omnibus (accession no: GSE97430).
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Graduate student fellowship)
- Joscha Griger
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (KFO192)
- Simone Spuler
- Carmen Birchmeier
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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Animal experimentation: All procedures involving animals and their care were carried out in accordance with the guidelines for animal experiments at the Max-Delbrueck-Center (MDC), which conform to the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals (NIH Publication No. 85-23, revised 1996), the European Parliament Directive 2010/63/EU and the 22 September 2010 Council on the protection of animals. Animal experimentation was approved by the local Ethics committee for animal experiments at the Landesamt fÃ1/4r Gesundheit und Soziales (GO130/13; G0028/14). The animal house at the MDC is registered according to paragraph11 German Animal Welfare Law.
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© 2017, Griger et al.
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Loss of Ptpn11 (Shp2) drives satellite cells into quiescence
eLife 6:e21552.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.21552
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