Skeletal muscle lineage is dispensable for appendage regeneration in axolotl
biorxiv(2022)
摘要
Regeneration of a complex appendage structure such as limb requires hierarchical coordination of multiple types of tissues. Muscles, as one of the major cell masses in limbs, have been reported recently to be critical to guide other tissue regeneration in planaria, but its function and relationship to other cells in vertebrate complex regeneration have been unclear. Here, we use Pax7 mutant axolotls, in which the limb muscle is developmentally lost, to investigate limb regeneration in the absence of skeletal muscle. We find that the pattern of regenerated limbs is normal in Pax7 mutants compared to the controls. Lack of muscles do not affect the proliferation of fibroblasts, another major population in limbs. Furthermore, using single cell RNA-sequencing, we demonstrate that the cell type composition in completely regenerated limbs in Pax7 mutants is similar to that in the controls, except the lack of cell types in muscle lineage. Our study reveals skeletal muscle is not required for the guidance of complex tissue regeneration in axolotls, and provides new views of the tissue hierarchy in vertebrate appendage regeneration.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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