PUBLICATION
Extraocular muscle regeneration in zebrafish requires late signals from Insulin-like growth factors
- Authors
- Saera-Vila, A., Louie, K.W., Sha, C., Kelly, R.M., Kish, P.E., Kahana, A.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-180208-14
- Date
- 2018
- Source
- PLoS One 13: e0192214 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Kahana, Alon, Kish, Phillip
- Keywords
- none
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Cell Differentiation
- Oculomotor Muscles/cytology
- Oculomotor Muscles/physiology*
- Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt/metabolism
- Regeneration*
- Signal Transduction*
- Somatomedins/metabolism*
- Zebrafish/physiology*
- PubMed
- 29415074 Full text @ PLoS One
Citation
Saera-Vila, A., Louie, K.W., Sha, C., Kelly, R.M., Kish, P.E., Kahana, A. (2018) Extraocular muscle regeneration in zebrafish requires late signals from Insulin-like growth factors. PLoS One. 13:e0192214.
Abstract
Insulin-like growth factors (Igfs) are key regulators of key biological processes such as embryonic development, growth, and tissue repair and regeneration. The role of Igf in myogenesis is well documented and, in zebrafish, promotes fin and heart regeneration. However, the mechanism of action of Igf in muscle repair and regeneration is not well understood. Using adult zebrafish extraocular muscle (EOM) regeneration as an experimental model, we show that Igf1 receptor blockage using either chemical inhibitors (BMS754807 and NVP-AEW541) or translation-blocking morpholino oligonucleotides (MOs) reduced EOM regeneration. Zebrafish EOMs regeneration depends on myocyte dedifferentiation, which is driven by early epigenetic reprogramming and requires autophagy activation and cell cycle reentry. Inhibition of Igf signaling had no effect on either autophagy activation or cell proliferation, indicating that Igf signaling was not involved in the early reprogramming steps of regeneration. Instead, blocking Igf signaling produced hypercellularity of regenerating EOMs and diminished myosin expression, resulting in lack of mature differentiated muscle fibers even many days after injury, indicating that Igf was involved in late re-differentiation steps. Although it is considered the main mediator of myogenic Igf actions, Akt activation decreased in regenerating EOMs, suggesting that alternative signaling pathways mediate Igf activity in muscle regeneration. In conclusion, Igf signaling is critical for re-differentiation of reprogrammed myoblasts during late steps of zebrafish EOM regeneration, suggesting a regulatory mechanism for determining regenerated muscle size and timing of differentiation, and a potential target for regenerative therapy.
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