Recruitment and maintenance of tendon progenitors by TGFβ signaling are essential for tendon formation
| Autor: | Brian A. Pryce, Nicholas D. Murchison, Spencer S. Watson, Julia A. Staverosky, Ronen Schweitzer, Nicole Dünker |
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| Rok vydání: | 2009 |
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Medizin Connective tissue Cartilage metabolism Biology Tendons Tissue Culture Techniques Mice Transforming Growth Factor beta2 Transforming Growth Factor beta3 medicine Animals Progenitor cell Molecular Biology Alleles Cells Cultured Research Articles Muscles Stem Cells Cartilage Scleraxis Extremities Tendon formation Anatomy musculoskeletal system Tenomodulin Cell biology Tendon medicine.anatomical_structure Mutation Biomarkers Signal Transduction Developmental Biology |
| Zdroj: | Development. 136:1351-1361 |
| ISSN: | 1477-9129 0950-1991 |
| Popis: | Tendons and ligaments mediate the attachment of muscle to bone and of bone to bone to provide connectivity and structural integrity in the musculoskeletal system. We show that TGFbeta signaling plays a major role in the formation of these tissues. TGFbeta signaling is a potent inducer of the tendon progenitor (TNP) marker scleraxis both in organ culture and in cultured cells, and disruption of TGFbeta signaling in Tgfb2(-/-);Tgfb3(-/-) double mutant embryos or through inactivation of the type II TGFbeta receptor (TGFBR2; also known as TbetaRII) results in the loss of most tendons and ligaments in the limbs, trunk, tail and head. The induction of scleraxis-expressing TNPs is not affected in mutant embryos and the tendon phenotype is first manifested at E12.5, a developmental stage in which TNPs are positioned between the differentiating muscles and cartilage, and in which Tgfb2 or Tgfb3 is expressed both in TNPs and in the differentiating muscles and cartilage. TGFbeta signaling is thus essential for maintenance of TNPs, and we propose that it also mediates the recruitment of new tendon cells by differentiating muscles and cartilage to establish the connections between tendon primordia and their respective musculoskeletal counterparts, leading to the formation of an interconnected and functionally integrated musculoskeletal system. |
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