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ArticleScience (New York, N.Y.)2018

Single-cell analysis uncovers convergence of cell identities during axolotl limb regeneration.

Tobias Gerber, Prayag Murawala, Dunja Knapp, Wouter Masselink, Maritta Schuez, Sarah Hermann, Malgorzata Gac-Santel, Sergej Nowoshilow, Jorge Kageyama, Shahryar Khattak and 4 more

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Article in Science (New York, N.Y.), 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 245 papers.

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245citing papers in PubMed
16.2field-weighted citation impact, top 1% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

245 citing papers in PubMed, 425 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

14 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.

Tobias GerberDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-8456-5495
Prayag MurawalaResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria. barbara_treutlein@eva.mpg.de elly.tanaka@imp.ac.at prayag.murawala@imp.ac.at.ORCID 0000-0002-0607-1059
Dunja KnappDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstraße 105, 01307 Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0002-7533-2208
Wouter MasselinkResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0002-4085-3206
Maritta SchuezDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstraße 105, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Sarah HermannDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstraße 105, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Malgorzata Gac-SantelDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Sergej NowoshilowResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria.ORCID 0000-0001-8360-5010
Jorge KageyamaDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Shahryar KhattakDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstraße 105, 01307 Dresden, Germany.
Joshua D CurrieDeutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) Center for Regenerative Therapies (CRTD), Technische Universität Dresden, Fetscherstraße 105, 01307 Dresden, Germany.ORCID 0000-0001-7402-4265
J Gray CampDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.
Elly M TanakaResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology (IMP), Vienna BioCenter (VBC), Campus-Vienna-Biocenter 1, 1030 Vienna, Austria. barbara_treutlein@eva.mpg.de elly.tanaka@imp.ac.at prayag.murawala@imp.ac.at.ORCID 0000-0003-4240-2158
Barbara TreutleinDepartment of Evolutionary Genetics, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany. barbara_treutlein@eva.mpg.de elly.tanaka@imp.ac.at prayag.murawala@imp.ac.at.ORCID 0000-0002-3299-5597
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft · DEMax Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology · DEResearch Institute of Molecular Pathology · AT

Funding

European Research Council 294324
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Amputation of the axolotl forelimb results in the formation of a blastema, a transient tissue where progenitor cells accumulate prior to limb regeneration. However, the molecular understanding of blastema formation had previously been hampered by the inability to identify and isolate blastema precursor cells in the adult tissue. We have used a combination of Cre-loxP reporter lineage tracking and single-cell messenger RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) to molecularly track mature connective tissue (CT) cell heterogeneity and its transition to a limb blastema state. We have uncovered a multiphasic molecular program where CT cell types found in the uninjured adult limb revert to a relatively homogenous progenitor state that recapitulates an embryonic limb bud-like phenotype including multipotency within the CT lineage. Together, our data illuminate molecular and cellular reprogramming during complex organ regeneration in a vertebrate.

Indexed as

Ambystoma mexicanumAnimalsCell LineageCell TrackingCellular ReprogrammingConnective Tissue CellsForelimbGenes, ReporterIntegrasesRegenerationRNA, MessengerSequence Analysis, RNASingle-Cell AnalysisStem CellsCre recombinaseIntegrasesRNA, Messenger

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PMID30262634
PMCPMC6669047
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