Fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs) are currently defined by their anatomical position, expression of non-specific membrane-associated proteins, and ability to adopt multiple lineages in vitro. Gene expression analysis at single-cell level reveals that FAPs undergo dynamic transitions through a spectrum of cell states that can be identified by differential expression levels of Tie2 and Vcam1. Different patterns of Vcam1-negative Tie2highor Tie2lowand Tie2low/Vcam1-expressing FAPs are detected during neonatal myogenesis, response to acute injury and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). RNA sequencing analysis identified cell state-specific transcriptional profiles that predict functional interactions with satellite and inflammatory cells. In particular, Vcam1-expressing FAPs, which exhibit a pro-fibrotic expression profile, are transiently activated by acute injury in concomitance with the inflammatory response. Aberrant persistence of Vcam1-expressing FAPs is detected in DMD muscles or upon macrophage depletion, and is associated with muscle fibrosis, thereby revealing how disruption of inflammation-regulated FAPs dynamics leads to a pathogenic outcome.

Dynamics of cellular states of fibro-adipogenic progenitors during myogenesis and muscular dystrophy / Malecova, Barbora; Gatto, Sole; Etxaniz, Usue; Passafaro, Magda; Cortez, Amy; Nicoletti, Chiara; Giordani, Lorenzo; Torcinaro, Alessio; De Bardi, Marco; Bicciato, Silvio; De Santa, Francesca; Madaro, Luca; Puri, Pier Lorenzo. - In: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. - ISSN 2041-1723. - 9:1(2018), pp. 1-12. [10.1038/s41467-018-06068-6]

Dynamics of cellular states of fibro-adipogenic progenitors during myogenesis and muscular dystrophy

Torcinaro, Alessio;De Santa, Francesca;Madaro, Luca;
2018

Abstract

Fibro-adipogenic progenitors (FAPs) are currently defined by their anatomical position, expression of non-specific membrane-associated proteins, and ability to adopt multiple lineages in vitro. Gene expression analysis at single-cell level reveals that FAPs undergo dynamic transitions through a spectrum of cell states that can be identified by differential expression levels of Tie2 and Vcam1. Different patterns of Vcam1-negative Tie2highor Tie2lowand Tie2low/Vcam1-expressing FAPs are detected during neonatal myogenesis, response to acute injury and Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD). RNA sequencing analysis identified cell state-specific transcriptional profiles that predict functional interactions with satellite and inflammatory cells. In particular, Vcam1-expressing FAPs, which exhibit a pro-fibrotic expression profile, are transiently activated by acute injury in concomitance with the inflammatory response. Aberrant persistence of Vcam1-expressing FAPs is detected in DMD muscles or upon macrophage depletion, and is associated with muscle fibrosis, thereby revealing how disruption of inflammation-regulated FAPs dynamics leads to a pathogenic outcome.
2018
chemistry (all); biochemistry; genetics and molecular biology (all); physics and astronomy (all)
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Dynamics of cellular states of fibro-adipogenic progenitors during myogenesis and muscular dystrophy / Malecova, Barbora; Gatto, Sole; Etxaniz, Usue; Passafaro, Magda; Cortez, Amy; Nicoletti, Chiara; Giordani, Lorenzo; Torcinaro, Alessio; De Bardi, Marco; Bicciato, Silvio; De Santa, Francesca; Madaro, Luca; Puri, Pier Lorenzo. - In: NATURE COMMUNICATIONS. - ISSN 2041-1723. - 9:1(2018), pp. 1-12. [10.1038/s41467-018-06068-6]
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