Cell-type heterogeneity in the early zebrafish olfactory epithelium is generated from progenitors within preplacodal ectoderm

  1. Raphaël Aguillon
  2. Julie Batut
  3. Arul Subramanian
  4. Romain Madelaine
  5. Pascale Dufourcq
  6. Thomas F Schilling
  7. Patrick Blader  Is a corresponding author
  1. Université de Toulouse, France
  2. University of California, United States
6 figures, 4 videos and 1 additional file

Figures

Figure 1 with 1 supplement
Islet1/2 labels Gnrh3 neurons of the olfactory epithelium and its expression is unaffected in sox10 mutants.

(A) Single confocal sections of olfactory epithelia from Tg(gnrh3:eGFP) embryos at 48 hpf, in either wildtype or sox10t3/t3 mutants, labelled for the expression of Islet1/2 (magenta) and eGFP …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.002
Figure 1—source data 1

Islet+ cell number quantification.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.004
Figure 1—source data 2

eGFP+ cell number quantification.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.005
Figure 1—figure supplement 1
Expression of endogenous gnrh3 in sox10t3/t3 mutants and wildtype siblings.

Representative bright-field images of in situ hybridisation against endogenous gnrh3 transcripts in wildtype or sox10t3/t3 mutant olfactory epithelia showing high and low numbers of expressing …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.003
Figure 2 with 1 supplement
Cre/lox lineage mapping of neural crest cells reveals contributions to cells surrounding the olfactory epithelium but not to Islet/Gnrh3+ neurons.

Single confocal sections of an olfactory epithelium from a double-heterozygous Tg(−28.5Sox10:Cre);Tg(ef1a:loxP-DsRed-loxP-egfp) embryo at 48 hpf, labelled for the expression of Islet1/2 (magenta) …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.006
Figure 2—figure supplement 1
Expression of eGFP is detected throughout the head after switching of the loxP-DsRed-loxP-egfp cassette, including in known neural crest-derived lineages.

(A) Low magnification images of the entire head of a double-heterozygous Tg(−28.5Sox10:Cre);Tg(ef1a:loxP-DsRed-loxP-egfp) embryo at 48 hpf labelled for eGFP (green); nuclei are labelled with DAPI …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.007
Figure 3 with 1 supplement
Lineage reconstruction reveals an anterior preplacodal ectoderm origin for Gnrh3 neurons: backtracking.

(A) Schematic representation of the backtracking strategy. Synthetic mRNAs encoding Histone2B-RFP (H2B-RFP) were injected into Tg(gnrh3:eGFP) transgenic embryos, which were subsequently imaged from …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.008
Figure 3—figure supplement 1
Backtracking data from individual Tg(gnrh3:eGFP) embryos.

Confocal projections extracted from 4D datasets at 36 and 12 hpf for 4 embryos analysed and not shown in Figure 3 showing the GFP channel alone, and the position of the backtracked nuclei of …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.009
Lineage reconstruction reveals an anterior preplacodal ectoderm origin for Gnrh3 neurons: photoconversion.

(A,B) Confocal projections of NLS-mEos2 loaded, Tg(gnrh3:eGFP) embryos at 12 hpf before (A) and after photoconversion (B). The first panel in (A) shows a schematic representation of the anterior …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.012
Figure 4—source data 1

gnrh3:eGFP+ and mEos2PC+ cell number quantification.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.013
Figure 5 with 2 supplements
Microvillous sensory neurons derive from preplacodal precursors: backtracking.

(A–C) Confocal projections from a representative 4D dataset at 36, 28, 20 and 12 hpf showing the position of the nuclei backtracked from 10 sox10:eGFP-negative (A, pink), 10 lens (B, yellow) and 10 …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.014
Figure 5—figure supplement 1
Expression of endogenous trpc2b is unchanged in sox10t3/t3 mutant embryos relative to wildtype siblings.

Representative bright-field images of in situ hybridisation against endogenous trpc2b transcripts in wildtype or sox10t3/t3 mutant epithelia showing high and low numbers of expressing cells or no …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.015
Figure 5—figure supplement 2
Backtracking data from individual Tg(sox10:eGFP) embryos.

Confocal projections extracted from 4D datasets at 36 and 12 hpf for 3 embryos analysed and not shown in Figure 5 showing the position of the backtracked nuclei of sox10:eGFP-negative (pink) and …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.016
Microvillous sensory neurons derive from preplacodal precursors: photoconversion.

(A,B) Confocal projections of NLS-mEos2 loaded, Tg(−4.9sox10:eGFP) embryos at 12 hpf before (A) and after photoconversion (B). The first panel in (A) shows a schematic representation of the anterior …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.019
Figure 6—source data 1

sox10:eGFP+ and mEos2PC+ cell number quantification.

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.020

Videos

Video 1
Lineage reconstruction reveals an anterior preplacodal ectoderm origin for Gnrh3 neurons: backtracking.

Movie showing an acquisition series and backtracking of a Gnrh3 neuron in a Histone2B-RFP loaded Tg(gnrh3:eGFP) transgenic embryo. The movie is divided into 5 parts: an acquisition phase, a phase …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.010
Video 2
Lineage reconstruction reveals an anterior preplacodal ectoderm origin for Gnrh3 neurons: tracks.

Movie showing an acquisition series and backtracking of gnrh3:eGFP-negative olfactory cells, lens cells and gnrh3:eGFP-positive olfactory cells in an Histone2B-RFP loaded Tg(gnrh3:eGFP) transgenic …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.011
Video 3
Microvillous sensory neurons derive from classical preplacodal precursors: backtracking.

Movie showing an acquisition series and backtracking of a microvillous sensory neuron in a Histone2B-RFP loaded Tg(sox10:eGFP) transgenic embryo. The movie is divided into 5 parts: an acquisition …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.017
Video 4
Microvillous sensory neurons derive from classical preplacodal precursors: tracks.

Movie showing an acquisition series and backtracking of sox10:eGFP-negative olfactory cells, lens cells and sox10:eGFP-positive olfactory cells in an Histone2B-RFP loaded Tg(sox10:eGFP) transgenic …

https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.32041.018

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