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Canonical and early lineage-specific stem cell types identified in planarian SirNeoblasts

Overview of attention for article published in Cell Regeneration, March 2021
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Title
Canonical and early lineage-specific stem cell types identified in planarian SirNeoblasts
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Cell Regeneration, March 2021
DOI 10.1186/s13619-021-00076-6
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Kaimeng Niu, Hao Xu, Yuanyi Zhou Xiong, Yun Zhao, Chong Gao, Chris W. Seidel, Xue Pan, Yuqing Ying, Kai Lei

Abstract

The pluripotent stem cells in planarians, a model for tissue and cellular regeneration, remain further identification. We recently developed a method to enrich piwi-1+ cells in Schmidtea mediterranea, by staining cells with SiR-DNA and Cell Tracker Green, named SirNeoblasts that permits their propagation and subsequent functional study in vivo. Since traditional enrichment for planarian neoblasts by Hoechst 33342 staining generates X1 cells, blocking the cell cycle and inducing cytotoxicity, this method by SiR-DNA and Cell Tracker Green represents a complementary technological advance for functional investigation of cell fate and regeneration. However, the similarities in heterogeneity of cell subtypes between SirNeoblasts and X1 remain unknown. In this work, we performed single cell RNA sequencing of SirNeoblasts for comparison with differential expression patterns in a publicly available X1 single cell RNA sequencing data. We found first that all of the lineage-specific progenitor cells in X1 were present in comparable proportions in SirNeoblasts. In addition, SirNeoblasts contain an early muscle progenitor that is unreported in X1. Analysis of new markers for putative pluripotent stem cells identified here, with subsequent sub-clustering analysis, revealed earlier lineages of epidermal, muscular, intestinal, and pharyngeal progenitors than have been observed in X1. Using the gcm as a marker, we also identified a cell subpopulation resided in previously identified tgs-1+ neoblasts. Knockdown of gcm impaired the neoblast repopulation, suggesting a function of gcm in neoblasts. In summary, the use of SirNeoblasts will enable broad experimental advances in regeneration and cell fate specification, given the possibility for propagation and transplantation of recombinant and mutagenized pluripotent stem cells that are not previously afforded to this rapid and versatile model system.

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 3 15%
Student > Bachelor 2 10%
Other 2 10%
Student > Ph. D. Student 2 10%
Professor > Associate Professor 1 5%
Other 0 0%
Unknown 10 50%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 4 20%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 2 10%
Immunology and Microbiology 1 5%
Social Sciences 1 5%
Medicine and Dentistry 1 5%
Other 1 5%
Unknown 10 50%
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