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As slow-twitch muscle cells migrate through fast-twitch muscle precursor cells, they act as morphogenesis tutors, according to Clarissa Henry and Sharon Amacher (University of California, Berkeley, CA).
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Fast-twitch muscle cells in zebrafish start off life as round blobs but must undergo anterio-posterior elongation to become functional myofibers. Henry and Amacher had noticed that this elongation process spreads in a medial-to-lateral wave, i.e., cells near the midline change shape first./ [1 y' M/ V9 H. @5 h, B
9 p! y6 b: V4 QThe authors first established that elongation required Hedgehog signaling. Transplantation experiments showed, however, that this effect was indirect. To restore fast-twitch elongation in a Hedgehog-signaling mutant, the critical ingredient was wild-type slow-twitch cells not wild-type fast-twitch cells.! [8 x& w4 ]( M8 J. l) n
6 T4 `3 K" \% {) g g* fIn response to the Hedgehog signal, transplanted slow-twitch cells extended across the anterior–posterior width of a somite and migrated outwards from the notochord. Fast-twitch cells in their wake elongated. The effect could be relayed to other fast-twitch cells as long as the targets were in the same somite. In the wild type there are probably enough migrating cells to contact directly all of the fast-twitch cells.
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- \6 W; U( k8 ]Future work will show if the slow-twitch cell or its discarded extracellular matrix is acting as a scaffolding for the fast-twitch cell, or if other signals are at work. In other sites of cell migration, such as the developing limb and early embryo, there may be similar drop-offs of differentiation and morphogenesis cues.
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Henry, C.A., and S.L. Amacher. 2004. Dev. Cell. 7:917–923.(Ovoid fast muscle cells (white arrow) st) |
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