ArticleThe EMBO journal2024
Spatially distinct epithelial and mesenchymal cell subsets along progressive lineage restriction in the branching embryonic mammary gland.
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- Mammary adipocyte plasticity and epithelial crosstalk: roles in development, remodeling, and disease.Reviews in endocrine & metabolic disorders · 2026Review
- Branching out: the diverse roles of stem and progenitor cells in mammary gland development.Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia · 2026Review
- Little women: the relevance and reliance on mouse models for mammary gland research and next steps for translation.Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia · 2025Review
- Spatially organized cellular communities shape functional tissue architecture in the pancreas.Science advances · 2025Article
- Contractile fibroblasts form a transient niche for the branching mammary epithelium.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Defining breast epithelial cell types in the single-cell era.Developmental cell · 2025Review
- Reactivation of Multipotency in the Mammary Gland - a Ripple in the Pond and a Turn of the Tide.Journal of mammary gland biology and neoplasia · 2025Review
- Transgenic overexpression of the miR-200b/200a/429 cluster prevents mammary tumor initiation in Neu/Erbb2 transgenic mice.International journal of cancer · 2025Article
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Abstract
How cells coordinate morphogenetic cues and fate specification during development remains a fundamental question in organogenesis. The mammary gland arises from multipotent stem cells (MaSCs), which are progressively replaced by unipotent progenitors by birth. However, the lack of specific markers for early fate specification has prevented the delineation of the features and spatial localization of MaSC-derived lineage-committed progenitors. Here, using single-cell RNA sequencing from E13.5 to birth, we produced an atlas of matched mouse mammary epithelium and mesenchyme and reconstructed the differentiation trajectories of MaSCs toward basal and luminal fate. We show that murine MaSCs exhibit lineage commitment just prior to the first sprouting events of mammary branching morphogenesis at E15.5. We identify early molecular markers for committed and multipotent MaSCs and define their spatial distribution within the developing tissue. Furthermore, we show that the mammary embryonic mesenchyme is composed of two spatially restricted cell populations, and that dermal mesenchyme-produced FGF10 is essential for embryonic mammary branching morphogenesis. Altogether, our data elucidate the spatiotemporal signals underlying lineage specification of multipotent MaSCs, and uncover the signals from mesenchymal cells that guide mammary branching morphogenesis.
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