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Negative elongation factor regulates muscle progenitor expansion for efficient myofiber repair and stem cell pool repopulation

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DEVELOPMENTAL CELL
卷 56, 期 7, 页码 1014-+

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CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.devcel.2021.02.025

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  1. Canadian Institutes of Health Research [FDN-143330, MOP-343603]
  2. Harvard Medical School Startup Funds
  3. CIHR training program
  4. OGS training program
  5. Mitacs training program
  6. QEIIST training program
  7. NIH Biomedical Informatics and Data Science Research Training Program (BIRT) grant [T15LM007092]

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In this study, muscle-stem-cell-specific deletion of NELF showed its critical role in efficient muscle regeneration and stem cell pool replenishment. Mechanistic studies revealed that NELF modulates p53 signaling to promote the expansion of muscle progenitors during regeneration. Transplantation experiments indicated that progenitors returning to quiescence are major contributors to stem cell pool repopulation.
Negative elongation factor (NELF) is a critical transcriptional regulator that stabilizes paused RNA polymerase to permit rapid gene expression changes in response to environmental cues. Although NELF is essential for embryonic development, its role in adult stem cells remains unclear. In this study, through a muscle-stem-cell-specific deletion, we showed that NELF is required for efficient muscle regeneration and stem cell pool replenishment. In mechanistic studies using PRO-seq, single-cell trajectory analyses and myofiber cultures revealed that NELF works at a specific stage of regeneration whereby it modulates p53 signaling to permit massive expansion of muscle progenitors. Strikingly, transplantation experiments indicated that these progenitors are also necessary for stem cell pool repopulation, implying that they are able to return to quiescence. Thus, we identified a critical role for NELF in the expansion of muscle progenitors in response to injury and revealed that progenitors returning to quiescence are major contributors to the stem cell pool repopulation.

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