Embryonic founders of adult muscle stem cells are primed by the determination gene Mrf4 |
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Authors: | Ramkumar Sambasivan Glenda Comai Isabelle Le Roux Danielle Gomès Julie Konge Gérard Dumas Clémire Cimper Shahragim Tajbakhsh |
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Affiliation: | 1. Institut Pasteur, Stem Cells & Development, CNRS URA 2578, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724, Paris Cedex 15, France;2. Institut Pasteur, Department of Developmental & Stem Cell Biology, 25 rue du Dr. Roux, 75724 Paris Cedex 15, France |
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Abstract: | Skeletal muscle satellite cells play a critical role during muscle growth, homoeostasis and regeneration. Selective induction of the muscle determination genes Myf5, Myod and Mrf4 during prenatal development can potentially impact on the reported functional heterogeneity of adult satellite cells. Accordingly, expression of Myf5 was reported to diminish the self-renewal potential of the majority of satellite cells. In contrast, virtually all adult satellite cells showed antecedence of Myod activity. Here we examine the priming of myogenic cells by Mrf4 throughout development. Using a Cre-lox based genetic strategy and novel highly sensitive Pax7 reporter alleles compared to the ubiquitous Rosa26-based reporters, we show that all adult satellite cells, independently of their anatomical location or embryonic origin, have been primed for Mrf4 expression. Given that Mrf4Cre and Mrf4nlacZ are active exclusively in progenitors during embryogenesis, whereas later expression is restricted to differentiated myogenic cells, our findings suggest that adult satellite cells emerge from embryonic founder cells in which the Mrf4 locus was activated. Therefore, this level of myogenic priming by induction of Mrf4, does not compromise the potential of the founder cells to assume an upstream muscle stem cell state. We propose that embryonic myogenic cells and the majority of adult muscle stem cells form a lineage continuum. |
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Keywords: | Skeletal muscle stem cells Mrf4 Myf5 Pax7 Lineage Reporter mice |
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