Defining the Design Principles of Skin Epidermis Postnatal Growth.
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Authors
Dekoninck, Sophie
Hannezo, Edouard
Sifrim, Alejandro
Miroshnikova, Yekaterina A
Aragona, Mariaceleste
Malfait, Milan
Gargouri, Souhir
de Neunheuser, Charlotte
Dubois, Christine
Voet, Thierry
Wickström, Sara A
Blanpain, Cédric
Publication Date
2020-04-30Journal Title
Cell
ISSN
0092-8674
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Volume
181
Issue
3
Pages
604-620.e22
Language
eng
Type
Article
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VoR
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Print-Electronic
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Dekoninck, S., Hannezo, E., Sifrim, A., Miroshnikova, Y. A., Aragona, M., Malfait, M., Gargouri, S., et al. (2020). Defining the Design Principles of Skin Epidermis Postnatal Growth.. Cell, 181 (3), 604-620.e22. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.015
Abstract
During embryonic and postnatal development, organs and tissues grow steadily to achieve their final size at the end of puberty. However, little is known about the cellular dynamics that mediate postnatal growth. By combining in vivo clonal lineage tracing, proliferation kinetics, single-cell transcriptomics, and in vitro micro-pattern experiments, we resolved the cellular dynamics taking place during postnatal skin epidermis expansion. Our data revealed that harmonious growth is engineered by a single population of developmental progenitors presenting a fixed fate imbalance of self-renewing divisions with an ever-decreasing proliferation rate. Single-cell RNA sequencing revealed that epidermal developmental progenitors form a more uniform population compared with adult stem and progenitor cells. Finally, we found that the spatial pattern of cell division orientation is dictated locally by the underlying collagen fiber orientation. Our results uncover a simple design principle of organ growth where progenitors and differentiated cells expand in harmony with their surrounding tissues.
Keywords
Epidermis, Cells, Cultured, Stem Cells, Skin, Animals, Animals, Outbred Strains, Mice, Transgenic, Mice, Cell Division, Cell Differentiation, Cell Proliferation, Cell Lineage, Female, Male, Epidermal Cells
Sponsorship
Wellcome Trust (098357/Z/12/Z)
Royal Society (RP/R1/180165)
Medical Research Council (MC_PC_12009)
Medical Research Council (MC_PC_17230)
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External DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cell.2020.03.015
This record's URL: https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/311040
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Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
Licence URL: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
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