Nature Communications (Mar 2018)

Basal lamina remodeling at the skeletal muscle stem cell niche mediates stem cell self-renewal

  • Shantisree Sandeepani Rayagiri,
  • Daniele Ranaldi,
  • Alexander Raven,
  • Nur Izzah Farhana Mohamad Azhar,
  • Olivier Lefebvre,
  • Peter S Zammit,
  • Anne-Gaëlle Borycki

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03425-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

Read online

Extracellular matrix (ECM) remodelling is thought to have effects on muscle stem cells that support muscle homeostasis. Here the authors show ECM remodeling controls satellite cell self-renewal through deposition of laminin-α1 into the satellite cell niche.