A nontoxic fungal natural product modulates fin regeneration in zebrafish larvae upstream of FGF-WNT developmental signaling

Paul Cavanah; Junji Itou; Yudi Rusman; Naoyuki Tahara; Jessica M. Williams; Christine E. Salomon; Yasuhiko Kawakami

doi:10.1002/dvdy.244

A nontoxic fungal natural product modulates fin regeneration in zebrafish larvae upstream of FGF-WNT developmental signaling

Paul Cavanah, Junji Itou, Yudi Rusman, Naoyuki Tahara, Jessica M. Williams, Christine E. Salomon, Yasuhiko Kawakami

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Background: The regeneration of larvae zebrafish fin emerged as a new model of regeneration in the last decade. In contrast to genetic tools to study fin regeneration, chemical probes to modulate and interrogate regeneration processes are not well developed. Results: We set up a zebrafish larvae fin regeneration assay system and tested activities of natural product compounds and extracts, prepared from various microbes. Colomitide C, a recently isolated product from a fungus obtained from Antarctica, inhibited larvae fin regeneration. Using fluorescent reporter transgenic lines, we show that colomitide C inhibited fibroblast growth factor (FGF) signaling and WNT/β-catenin signaling, which were activated after larvae fin amputation. By using the endothelial cell reporter line and immunofluorescence, we showed that colomitide C did not affect migration of the blood vessel and nerve into the injured larvae fin. Colomitide C did not show any cytotoxic activities when tested against FGF receptor-amplified human cancer cell lines. Conclusion: Colomitide C, a natural product, modulated larvae fin regeneration likely acting upstream of FGF and WNT signaling. Colomitide C may serve as a template for developing new chemical probes to study regeneration and other biological processes.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	160-174
Number of pages	15
Journal	Developmental Dynamics
Volume	250
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1002/dvdy.244
State	Published - Feb 2021

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The authors declare no competing interest. We are grateful to Drs. James Amatruda, Richard Dorsky, Stephen Ekker, Enrico Moro and Angel Raya for sharing zebrafish lines, to Dr. Michael O'Connor for sharing his equipment, to Dr. Anindya Bagchi for helpful discussion, and to the Zebrafish Core Facility at the University of Minnesota for the help with zebrafish husbandry. We also thank Nicole Kilby, Tyler Burgoyne, Tyler Willing, Michael Brush, An Le, Sho Kawakami and Dr. Robyn Leary for their excellent assistance. This study was supported by the University of Minnesota Center for Drug Design Seed Grant to CES (CDD2013) and a grant from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases of the National Institutes of Health to YK (R01AR064195). The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript. The authors have no conflicts to disclose.

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Keywords

Colomitide C
WNT signaling
fibroblast growth factor signaling
fin regeneration
natural product
zebrafish larvae

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A nontoxic fungal natural product modulates fin regeneration in zebrafish larvae upstream of FGF-WNT developmental signaling

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