The cellular landscape of the endochondral bone during the transition to extrauterine life

The cellular complexity of the endochondral bone underlies its essential and pleiotropic roles during organismal life. While the adult bone has received significant attention, we still lack a deep understanding of the perinatal bone cellulome. Here, we have profiled the full composition of the murin...

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Authors: Díaz Rueda, Alejandro; Salvador-Martínez, Irepan; Sospedra-Arrufat, Ismael; Alcaina-Caro, Ana; Fernández-Miñán, Ana; Burgos-Ruiz, Ana M.; Cases, Ildefonso; Mohedano, Alberto; Tena, Juan J.; Heyn, Holger; López Ríos, Javier; Nusspaumer, Gretel
Format: Article
Status:Published version
Publication date:2024
Country:España
Institution:Universitat Pompeu Fabra
Repository:Repositorio Digital de la UPF
OAI Identifier:oai:repositori.upf.edu:10230/59090
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10230/59090
http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/imcb.12718
Access Level:Open access
Keyword:Birth
Endochondral ossification
Fibroblastmesenchymal stromal skeletal progenitors
Mouse
scRNA-seq
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Summary:The cellular complexity of the endochondral bone underlies its essential and pleiotropic roles during organismal life. While the adult bone has received significant attention, we still lack a deep understanding of the perinatal bone cellulome. Here, we have profiled the full composition of the murine endochondral bone at the single-cell level during the transition from fetal to newborn life and in comparison with the adult tissue, with particular emphasis on the mesenchymal compartment. The perinatal bone contains different fibroblastic clusters with blastema-like characteristics in organizing and supporting skeletogenesis, angiogenesis and hematopoiesis. Our data also suggest dynamic inter- and intra-compartment interactions, as well as a bone marrow milieu that seems prone to anti-inflammation, which we hypothesize is necessary to ensure the proper program of lymphopoiesis and the establishment of central and peripheral tolerance in early life. Our study provides an integrative roadmap for the future design of genetic and cellular functional assays to validate cellular interactions and lineage relationships within the perinatal bone.