Abstract
Skeletal muscle is a complex tissue containing tissue resident muscle stem cells (satellite cells) (MuSCs) important for postnatal muscle growth and regeneration. Quantitative analysis of the biological function of MuSCs and the molecular pathways responsible for a potential juxtavascular niche for MuSCs is currently lacking. We utilized fluorescent reporter mice and muscle tissue clearing to investigate the proximity of MuSCs to capillaries in 3 dimensions. We show that MuSCs express abundant VEGFA, which recruits endothelial cells (ECs) in vitro, whereas blocking VEGFA using both a vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitor and MuSC-specific VEGFA gene deletion reduces the proximity of MuSCs to capillaries. Importantly, this proximity to the blood vessels was associated with MuSC self-renewal in which the EC-derived Notch ligand Dll4 induces quiescence in MuSCs. We hypothesize that MuSCs recruit capillary ECs via VEGFA, and in return, ECs maintain MuSC quiescence though Dll4. Verma et al. performed skeletal muscle tissue clearing and unbiased fluorescent image analysis to show that muscle stem cells (satellite cells) pattern the microvasculature to be in close proximity to them via VEGFA. In turn, this juxtavascular niche keeps the satellite cells in a more quiescent state, suggesting a beneficial cross-talk.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 530-543.e9 |
Journal | Cell Stem Cell |
Volume | 23 |
Issue number | 4 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Oct 4 2018 |
Bibliographical note
Publisher Copyright:© 2018 Elsevier Inc.
Keywords
- Dll4
- Notch
- VEGF
- endothelial cell
- niche
- satellite cell
- skeletal muscle
- stem cell
- tissue clearing
- vasculature
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