Damage-induced reactive oxygen species regulate vimentin and dynamic collagen-based projections to mediate wound repair
- University of Wisconsin-Madison, United States
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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National Institute of General Medical Sciences (GM1 18027 01)
- Anna Huttenlocher
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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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© 2018, LeBert et al.
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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
