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Damage-induced reactive oxygen species regulate vimentin and dynamic collagen-based projections to mediate wound repair

  1. Danny LeBert
  2. Jayne M Squirrell
  3. Chrissy Freisinger
  4. Julie Rindy
  5. Netta Golenberg
  6. Grace Frecentes
  7. Angela Gibson
  8. Kevin W Eliceiri
  9. Anna Huttenlocher  Is a corresponding author
  1. University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30703
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  1. Danny LeBert
  2. Jayne M Squirrell
  3. Chrissy Freisinger
  4. Julie Rindy
  5. Netta Golenberg
  6. Grace Frecentes
  7. Angela Gibson
  8. Kevin W Eliceiri
  9. Anna Huttenlocher
(2018)
Damage-induced reactive oxygen species regulate vimentin and dynamic collagen-based projections to mediate wound repair
eLife 7:e30703.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30703
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Abstract

Tissue injury leads to early wound-associated reactive oxygen species (ROS) production that mediate tissue regeneration. To identify mechanisms that function downstream of redox signals that modulate regeneration, a vimentin reporter of mesenchymal cells was generated by driving GFP from the vimentin promoter in zebrafish. Early redox signaling mediated vimentin reporter activity at the wound margin. Moreover, both ROS and vimentin were necessary for collagen production and reorganization into projections at the leading edge of the wound. Second harmonic generation time-lapse imaging revealed that the collagen projections were associated with dynamic epithelial extensions at the wound edge during wound repair. Perturbing collagen organization by burn wound disrupted epithelial projections and subsequent wound healing. Taken together our findings suggest that ROS and vimentin integrate early wound signals to orchestrate the formation of collagen-based projections that guide regenerative growth during efficient wound repair.

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  1. Danny LeBert

    Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  2. Jayne M Squirrell

    Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  3. Chrissy Freisinger

    Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  4. Julie Rindy

    Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  5. Netta Golenberg

    Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  6. Grace Frecentes

    Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  7. Angela Gibson

    Department of Surgery, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  8. Kevin W Eliceiri

    Laboratory for Optical and Computational Instrumentation, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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  9. Anna Huttenlocher

    Department of Pediatrics, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, United States
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    huttenlocher@wisc.edu
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National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM1 18027 01)

  • Anna Huttenlocher

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

Ethics

Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Institutes of Health. All of the animals were handled according to approved institutional animal care and use committee (IACUC) protocols (#08-133) of the University of Wisconsin.

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  1. Fiona M Watt, King's College London, United Kingdom

Publication history

  1. Received: July 25, 2017
  2. Accepted: January 15, 2018
  3. Accepted Manuscript published: January 16, 2018 (version 1)
  4. Version of Record published: January 30, 2018 (version 2)

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© 2018, LeBert et al.

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  1. Danny LeBert
  2. Jayne M Squirrell
  3. Chrissy Freisinger
  4. Julie Rindy
  5. Netta Golenberg
  6. Grace Frecentes
  7. Angela Gibson
  8. Kevin W Eliceiri
  9. Anna Huttenlocher
(2018)
Damage-induced reactive oxygen species regulate vimentin and dynamic collagen-based projections to mediate wound repair
eLife 7:e30703.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.30703

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