Hierarchical stem cell topography splits growth and homeostatic functions in the fish gill
- Centre for Organismal Studies, Heidelberg University, Germany
- Heidelberg University, Germany
- Centro Andaluz de Biología del Desarrollo, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Spain
- Murdoch Children's Research Institute, Royal Children's Hospital, Australia
- National Institute for Basic Biology, National Institutes of Natural Sciences, Japan
Abstract
While lower vertebrates contain adult stem cells (aSCs) that maintain homeostasis and drive un-exhaustive organismal growth, mammalian aSCs display mainly the homeostatic function. Here we use lineage analysis in the fish gill to address aSCs and report separate stem cell populations for homeostasis and growth. These aSCs are fate-restricted during the entire post-embryonic life and even during re-generation paradigms. We use chimeric animals to demonstrate that p53 mediates growth coordination among fate-restricted aSCs, suggesting a hierarchical organisation among lineages in composite organs like the fish gill. Homeostatic and growth aSCs are clonal but differ in their topology; modifications in tissue architecture can convert the homeostatic zone into a growth zone, indicating a leading role for the physical niche defining stem cell output. We hypothesise that physical niches are main players to restrict aSCs to a homeostatic function in animals with fixed adult size.
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All data analysed for this study is included in the manuscript and supporting files. Raw sequencing data have been deposited in GEO under accession code GSE130939
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Transcriptome analysts of a growth domain and a differentiated domain of the medaka gillNCBI Gene Expression Omnibus, GSE130939.
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Author details
Elizabeth Mayela Ambrosio
Diana-Patricia Danciu
Juan R Martínez-Morales
Anna Marciniak-Czochra
Funding
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB873/A11)
- Lazaro Centanin
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (SFB873/B08)
- Anna Marciniak-Czochra
University of Melbourne (Melbourne Research Fellowship / Graduate Student Fellowship)
- Julian Stopler
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
Ethics
Animal experimentation: Experimental procedures with fish were performed in accordance with the German animal welfare law and approved by the local government (Tierschutzgesetz {section sign}11, Abs. 1, Nr. 1, husbandry permit number AZ 35-9185.64/BH; line generation permit number AZ 35-9185.81/G-145-15), and with the approval from the Institutional Animal Care and Use Committees of the National Institute for Basic Biology, Japan.
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© 2019, Stolper et al.
This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License permitting unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited.
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Hierarchical stem cell topography splits growth and homeostatic functions in the fish gill
eLife 8:e43747.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.43747
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