Compensatory growth and recovery of cartilage cytoarchitecture after transient cell death in fetal mouse limbs

Chee Ho H’ng, Shanika L. Amarasinghe, Boya Zhang, Hojin Chang, Xinli Qu, David R. Powell and Alberto Rosello-Diez ()
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Chee Ho H’ng: Monash University
Shanika L. Amarasinghe: Monash University
Boya Zhang: Monash University
Hojin Chang: Monash University
Xinli Qu: Monash University
David R. Powell: Monash University
Alberto Rosello-Diez: Monash University

Nature Communications, 2024, vol. 15, issue 1, 1-15

Abstract: Abstract A major question in developmental and regenerative biology is how organ size and architecture are controlled by progenitor cells. While limb bones exhibit catch-up growth (recovery of a normal growth trajectory after transient developmental perturbation), it is unclear how this emerges from the behaviour of chondroprogenitors, the cells sustaining the cartilage anlagen that are progressively replaced by bone. Here we show that transient sparse cell death in the mouse fetal cartilage is repaired postnatally, via a two-step process. During injury, progression of chondroprogenitors towards more differentiated states is delayed, leading to altered cartilage cytoarchitecture and impaired bone growth. Then, once cell death is over, chondroprogenitor differentiation is accelerated and cartilage structure recovered, including partial rescue of bone growth. At the molecular level, ectopic activation of mTORC1 correlates with, and is necessary for, part of the recovery, revealing a specific candidate to be explored during normal growth and in future therapies.

Date: 2024
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