Zebrafish fin regeneration involves generic and regeneration-specific osteoblast injury responses

Abstract

Successful regeneration requires the coordinated execution of multiple cellular responses to injury. In amputated zebrafish fins, mature osteoblasts dedifferentiate, migrate towards the injury and form proliferative osteogenic blastema cells. We show that osteoblast migration is preceded by cell elongation and alignment along the proximodistal axis, which require actomyosin, but not microtubule turnover. Surprisingly, osteoblast dedifferentiation and migration can be uncoupled. Using pharmacological and genetic interventions, we found that NF-ĸB and retinoic acid signalling regulate dedifferentiation without affecting migration, while the complement system and actomyosin dynamics affect migration but not dedifferentiation. Furthermore, by removing bone at two locations within a fin ray, we established an injury model containing two injury sites. We found that osteoblasts dedifferentiate at and migrate towards both sites, while accumulation of osteogenic progenitor cells and regenerative bone formation only occur at the distal-facing injury. Together, these data indicate that osteoblast dedifferentiation and migration represent generic injury responses that are differentially regulated and can occur independently of each other and of regenerative growth. We conclude that successful fin bone regeneration appears to involve the coordinated execution of generic and regeneration-specific responses of osteoblasts to injury.

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  1. Ivonne Margarete Sehring

    Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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  2. Hossein Falah Mohammadi

    Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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  3. Melanie Haffner-Luntzer

    Institute of Orthopaedic Research and Biomechanics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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  4. Anita Ignatius

    Institute of Orthopaedic Research and Biomechanics, University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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  5. Markus Huber-Lang

    Institute of Clinical and Experimental Trauma-Immunology (ITI), University Hospital Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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  6. Gilbert Weidinger

    Institute of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, University of Ulm, Ulm, Germany
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Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Project-ID 251293561 - SFB 1149)

  • Gilbert Weidinger

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (project ID 316249678 - SFB 1279)

  • Gilbert Weidinger

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (project ID 450627322 - SFB 1506)

  • Gilbert Weidinger

Medical Faculty,Ulm University (Hertha-Nathorff-Program)

  • Ivonne Margarete Sehring

The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.

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Animal experimentation: All procedures involving animals adhered to EU directive 2010/63/EU on the protection of animals used for scientific purposes, and were approved by the state of Baden-Württemberg (Project numbers 1193 and 1494) and by local animal experiment committees. Fish of both sexes were used. Housing and husbandry followed the recommendations of the Federation of European Laboratory Animal Science Associations (FELASA) and the European Society for Fish Models in Biology and Medicine (EUFishBioMed) (Aleström et al., 2020).

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© 2022, Sehring et al.

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  1. Ivonne Margarete Sehring
  2. Hossein Falah Mohammadi
  3. Melanie Haffner-Luntzer
  4. Anita Ignatius
  5. Markus Huber-Lang
  6. Gilbert Weidinger
(2022)
Zebrafish fin regeneration involves generic and regeneration-specific osteoblast injury responses
eLife 11:e77614.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.77614

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