Correspondence to Helen M. Blau: hblau{at}stanford.edu
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Abbreviations used in this paper: ß-gal, ß-galactosidase; BMDC, bone marrowderived cell; BMT, bone marrow transplant; DM, differentiation medium; GM, growth medium; HSC, hematopoietic stem cell; IGF-I, insulin-like growth factor I; MGF, mechano growth factor; MMC, myelomonocytic precursor; TA, tibialis anterior.
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BMDCs may contribute to muscle by diverse mechanisms. We and others previously proposed that BMDCs en route to muscle can follow a biological progression. Initially, they give rise to cells with many properties typical of muscle-specific stem cells (satellite cells) and then fuse to mature myofibers under damage conditions, such as toxin-induced injury or exercise on a running wheel (Fukada et al., 2002; LaBarge and Blau, 2002; Dreyfus et al., 2004). Recently, another study showed that BMDCs that incorporate into muscle after BMT do not exhibit full myogenicity on par with endogenous cells; however, the finding that they do not fuse with each other but do fuse with muscle cells both in vitro and in vivo suggests that they share several features with myogenic cells (Sherwood et al., 2004b). It is quite possible that a proportion of BMDCs fuse directly with myofibers without passage through the satellite cell compartment. Thus, these mechanisms of BMDC contribution to skeletal muscle may coexist.
Several studies have addressed the nature of the BMDCs capable of contributing to adult skeletal muscle. When the blood was reconstituted after transplantation of a single hematopoietic stem cell (HSC), labeled myofibers containing BMDCs were readily detected in skeletal muscle, showing that these cells have the capacity to generate derivatives that fuse with muscle (Camargo et al., 2003; Corbel et al., 2003). The relevant HSC derivative that participates in muscle regeneration has been identified as the same as that suggested for liver (Willenbring et al., 2004), the myelomonocytic precursor (MMC; Linckit+Sca1; Camargo et al., 2003; Doyonnas et al., 2004; Ojima et al., 2004). After injection of notexin or cardiotoxin into the muscle, incorporation of MMCs into regenerating muscle fibers was observed. Thus, myeloid HSC derivatives have been shown to be a source of cells that can contribute to muscle fibers.
To date, knowledge of the molecular mechanisms and components responsible for BMDC contribution to muscle has been lacking. An identification of soluble factors involved in this "damage response" is of fundamental interest and is crucial if we are to increase this relatively rare event in a therapeutic context. One of the many potentially relevant soluble factors is insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), a secreted growth factor that regulates several diverse cellular pathways, including survival, proliferation, and differentiation (Stewart and Rotwein, 1996). Two major classes of IGF-I isoforms that result from alternative splicing have been described previously (Goldspink and Yang, 2004; Shavlakadze et al., 2005). IGF-I class 2 proteins are primarily produced in the liver and secreted into the circulation and are the major endocrine effectors of growth hormone (Yakar et al., 1999). Accordingly, conditional knockout mice in which IGF-I expression was abrogated only in the liver exhibited postnatal growth retardation, despite normal levels of growth hormone (Sjogren et al., 2002). By contrast, IGF-I class 1 isoforms are widely expressed in most tissues and remain localized within the tissue in which they are expressed. In adult skeletal muscle, two class 1 isoforms of IGF-I have been identified, IGF-IEa and mechano growth factor (MGF; Yang et al., 1996; McKoy et al., 1999), both of which are secreted but retained within muscle tissue (LeRoith and Roberts, 1991) and are up-regulated upon muscle damage (Hill and Goldspink, 2003; Hill et al., 2003). MGF has been shown in vitro to stimulate myoblast proliferation, but studies in vivo are lacking (Yang and Goldspink, 2002). IGF-IEa induces muscle hypertrophy, blocks muscle atrophy, and has been shown to be critical to satellite cell activation and regeneration of skeletal muscle (Sommerland et al., 1989; Barton-Davis et al., 1998; Musaro et al., 2001; Hill and Goldspink, 2003; Stitt et al., 2004; Schakman et al., 2005). IGF-Inull mice die immediately after birth and exhibit multiple tissue defects, including signs of skeletal muscle dystrophy (Liu et al., 1993; Powell-Braxton et al., 1993). Mice transgenic for IGF-IEa under the control of a muscle-specific promoter display marked muscle hypertrophy after birth (Musaro et al., 2001). A recent study using mice transgenic for IGF-IEa suggested that this factor could play a role in the contribution of BMDCs to skeletal muscle (Musaro et al., 2004) because after muscle damage an increased incidence of bone marrowderived ckit+ cells present in skeletal muscle was observed relative to wild-type mice. However, interpretation of these experiments is complicated by the facts that IGF-I was present from conception onward and that multiple other damage-associated factors were up-regulated by extensive tissue injury.
In this paper, we investigated whether in the presence of mild damage, IGF-I alone could enhance the contribution of BMDCs to mature muscle fibers of adult wild-type mice. Three modes of IGF-I delivery yielded similar results, showing that the effects were not the result of the experimental paradigm used. IGF-I increased the number of GFP+ myofibers in wild-type mice that had received a BMT from GFP+ transgenic donors up to fourfold relative to untreated controls. To understand the underlying mechanism of IGF-I action, hematopoietic subfractions were co-cultured with differentiating myotubes in the presence or absence of IGF-I. We observed an increase in fusion between MMCs and myotubes that could be dissociated from the well-documented effect of IGF-I in increasing cell survival (Minshall et al., 1997; Burgess et al., 2003). Fusion was dependent on the culture media and stage of differentiation of the cells. These results are novel in that they demonstrate that a single factor, IGF-I, is sufficient to promote the formation of heterokaryons between myelomonocytic BMDC derivatives and differentiated muscle cells and can enhance their contribution to adult skeletal muscle in vivo.
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Results |
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The two muscle-specific IGF-I isoforms IGF-IEa and MGF were selected for study. Both isoforms were previously reported to be up-regulated upon muscle damage (Hill and Goldspink, 2003). To confirm that this was the case, mouse skeletal muscle tissues were injected with notexin, a potent inducer of muscle damage (Harris et al., 1974; Pluskal et al., 1978; Klein-Ogus and Harris, 1983). RT-PCR analysis of total RNA from muscle revealed an increase in IGF-IEa and MGF transcripts 8 d after injury (Fig. 1 a).
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Tibialis anterior (TA) muscles of GFP-BMT wild-type mice 8 wk after transplantation were electroporated with plasmids encoding one of the two isoforms of IGF-I and CD8, or only CD8. Muscles were harvested from five mice in each of the three groups 4 wk later and analyzed for the presence of GFP+ myofibers (Fig. 1, b and c). Myofibers that were transduced by electrotransfer were identified by the expression of CD8 on their membranes (Fig. 1 c, left). Coincident immunofluorescent staining for CD8 and GFP allowed a determination of the frequency of myofibers that had incorporated BMDCs from the circulation (GFP+) relative to those expressing the IGF-I isoforms (CD8+; Fig. 1 c, right, arrows). GFP+ interstitial cells (<10 µm) visible in muscle transverse sections are donor-derived blood cells. The expression of IGF-I isoforms by myofibers led to a marked increase in the contribution of cells from the circulation, as demonstrated by the increase in GFP+ myofibers among the total CD8+ myofibers, relative to controls (P < 0.02; Fig. 1 b).
The effects of IGF-I supersede the effects of damage because of the mode of delivery. Electroporation appeared to result in mild damage, as the frequency of BMDC incorporation observed in the control (CD8 only; Fig. 1 b) was somewhat greater than that which we typically observed in undamaged muscle (0.05%; LaBarge and Blau, 2002; Brazelton et al., 2003). To establish the extent of damage, the percentage of centrally nucleated myofibers (a standard method to measure skeletal muscle injury) was assessed and determined to be 5.4 ± 0.3% in the three experimental groups tested (control, Igf-IEa, and MGF). By contrast, muscles damaged by injection of notexin, a standard means of experimentally inducing tissue damage, exhibited 73.4 ± 8.2% centrally nucleated myofibers. Thus, the damage caused by electroporation is relatively mild. To ensure that the increase in contribution of BMDCs to skeletal muscle was not attributable to the mode of IGF-I delivery but rather to the growth factor itself, two other modes of delivery were tested.
Myoblast-mediated IGF-I delivery increases contribution of BMDCs to adult skeletal muscle
Genetically engineered myoblasts provide a potent means for delivering proteins to skeletal muscle tissues. After injection into adult skeletal muscle, these cells fuse with the preexisting muscle fibers of the host. Myoblast-mediated gene delivery to skeletal or heart muscle was first shown to lead to physiological levels of secreted proteins in the circulation (e.g., human growth hormone; Barr and Leiden, 1991; Dhawan et al., 1991). Subsequently, localized secretion of proteins such as VEGF-A within heart and skeletal muscle tissues has been achieved by myoblast-mediated delivery, leading to novel insights into its mechanism of action in angiogenesis (Springer et al., 1998; Lee et al., 2000; Ozawa et al., 2004). Primary myoblasts previously engineered to express ß-galactosidase (ß-gal; Rando and Blau, 1994) were transduced with a retroviral vector encoding IGF-IEa.CD8, MGF.CD8, or an empty control vector (CD8 cassette only; Springer and Blau, 1997; Springer et al., 1998). All transduced cells were isolated by flow cytometry (FACS) using an antibody to CD8. IGF-I expression in these myoblast populations was confirmed by Western blot (Fig. 2 a).
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Injection of recombinant IGF-I protein increases the contribution of BMDCs to adult skeletal muscle
To prove definitively that IGF-I protein increases the contribution of BMDCs to muscle, the recombinant IGF-I protein was delivered by intramuscular injection. The commercially available recombinant protein is a purified peptide of 70 amino acids corresponding to exons 3 and 4 of the IGF-I gene, which constitutes the mature processed peptide with domains B, C, A, and D (Bell et al., 1986; Shimatsu and Rotwein, 1987). This delivery system is substantially different from the two methods described in Figs. 1 and 2 because it is transient. Different amounts of IGF-I (1, 5, and 10 µg) were injected into the TA muscles of wild-type mice that had received a BMT with GFP-labeled bone marrow 8 wk earlier, and the muscles of three mice in each group were analyzed 4 wk later. A dose-dependent increase in the number of total GFP+ myofibers per transverse section was observed in IGF-Iinjected relative to the saline-injected muscles (P < 0.01; Fig. 3). By contrast, injection of a cytokine, IL-4, recently reported to play a role in the fusion of myoblasts with myocytes to form multinucleated myotubes (Horsley et al., 2003), did not increase the frequency of GFP+ myofibers (unpublished data). The extent of muscle damage assessed as the percentage of centrally nucleated myofibers was 3.3 ± 0.8%, using this mode of IGF-I delivery.
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MMCs fuse spontaneously with differentiated myotubes in vitro
To elucidate the mechanism underlying the IGF-Ienhanced BMDC contribution to skeletal muscle in vivo, BMDCs were co-cultured with myogenic cells in vitro. Because we and others previously showed that the bone marrow derivatives of HSCs capable of fusing with myofibers in vivo are the MMCs (Camargo et al., 2003; Doyonnas et al., 2004; Ojima et al., 2004), experiments were designed to assess whether MMCs in co-culture with muscle cells were able to fuse with myotubes. Various experimental conditions were tested (Fig. 4 a). When freshly isolated MMCs were immediately co-cultured with myoblasts in low-serum myoblast differentiation medium (DM), fusion events were never observed, even after 6 d (Fig. 4 a, 1). By contrast, when MMCs were pretreated with high-serum myoblast growth medium (GM), fusion was observed. For instance, when MMCs and myoblasts were each cultured in GM for 3 d and then co-cultured in DM, GFP+ myotubes containing myogenin-expressing nuclei were detected as early as 4 d (Fig. 4, a [2] and bb"). Notably, when MMCs were cultured in GM for 3 d and then plated together with 3-d-old myotubes in DM, GFP+ myotubes containing myogenin-expressing nuclei were visible as early as 12 h after co-culture (Fig. 4 a, 3), and >90% of GFP+ myotubes contained three or more nuclei (not depicted). Together, these results suggest that exposure to GM is a prerequisite for MMCs to fuse. In addition, these "activated" MMCs can fuse with well-differentiated multinucleated myotubes. In none of these conditions in eight independent experiments were unfused GFP+ mononucleated bone marrow cells that expressed myogenin ever detected (Fig. 4, bb", arrowheads). The frequency of these fusion events is low (0.013%) but comparable with that previously reported by others for adherent bone marrow mesenchymal cells that are stromal derivatives (Shi et al., 2004; Lee et al., 2005). Thus, nonadherent HSC derivatives are as capable of fusing with muscle as adherent mesenchymal cells.
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Moreover, to determine whether MMCs fuse with either mononucleated myoblasts or with differentiated multinucleated myotubes, we performed time-lapse confocal microscopy. Myotubes were exposed to Ara-C to eliminate contaminating proliferating myoblasts and co-cultured with MMCs (Fig. 4 a, 3). In Fig. 5 (top eight panels), two muscle cells (arrows) are shown fusing together to form a multinucleated myotube. Subsequently, a GFP+ MMC (Fig. 5, arrowhead) fuses with the multinucleated myotube only 5 h after the onset of co-culture (bottom six panels). The entire time-lapse film of this microscopic field is provided with a single channel of phase contrast and GFP and the merged images (Video 1, available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200506123/DC1). Using time-lapse microscopy in two independent experiments, we detected 12 fusion events, 11 of which occurred with multinucleated myotubes and only 1 with a myoblast. Together, these data demonstrate that bone marrow MMCs can fuse in vitro with multinucleated differentiated myotubes.
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IGF-I has been implicated in the fusion of myoblasts with myotubes in tissue culture (Jacquemin et al., 2004). IGF-I has also been shown in transgenic animals to increase the recruitment of BMDCs to damaged muscles (Musaro et al., 2004). However, the fusion of myotubes with bone marrow cell types has not previously been described, except for adherent mesenchymal stem cells derived from the stroma (Shi et al., 2004; Lee et al., 2005). Our data demonstrate that fusion of MMCs with myotubes occurs spontaneously in culture and is also enhanced when IGF-I is present. This is in contrast to a previous study suggesting that HSCs and their derivatives were not able to fuse with myotubes in vitro (Shi et al., 2004). In this paper, we show the formation of heterokaryons between myotubes and MMCs using two different experimental paradigms: (1) GFP+ MMCs in co-culture with wild-type myotubes and time-lapse microscopy and (2) R26R Cre-reporter MMCs in co-culture with Cre-expressing myotubes, which results in DNA recombination and expression of ß-gal.
The failure to observe fusion of hematopoietic with myogenic cells by others was likely the result of the time period analyzed, the differentiated state of the cells used (myoblasts), and the absence of growth factor stimulation of hematopoietic cells. In our studies, fusion of MMCs with myotubes occurred within 5 h. Notably, fusion was not seen unless mature myotubes were present and MMCs had been exposed to high-serum medium before co-culture. Thus, the mechanisms that mediate stromal mesenchymal cell fusion with mononucleated myoblasts may well differ from those that mediate MMC fusion with multinucleate-differentiated myotubes.
These results also show that MMCs contribute to skeletal muscle through a direct fusion mechanism and that they do not get converted to myogenic precursors, as muscle-specific gene expression in MMCs in culture was never detected (unpublished data). Cell survival of MMCs could be increased by IGF-I in our studies, in agreement with those of others. However, we show that the increased fusion observed in the presence of IGF-I occurred in the presence of low-serum medium, a condition under which IGF-I had no effect on cell survival. Cell survival increased only when the cells were cultured in GM and not in myotube-conditioned DM, the medium in which fusion was observed.
The in vitro fusion assay described in this paper will allow further characterization of the molecular components involved in the spontaneous formation of heterokaryons in vivo. Several studies performed in Drosophila melanogaster identified proteins involved in the fusion of founder cells and fusion-competent cells during muscle development (Chen and Olson, 2004, 2005). The potential role of these proteins in the fusion of MMCs with myotubes can now be tested. Such experiments will determine whether musclemuscle homofusion and muscleMMC heterofusion share similar components.
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Electrotransfer of DNA into skeletal muscle
IGF-IEa and MGF cDNAs were obtained by RT-PCR from total RNA obtained from damaged mouse skeletal muscles (forward primer for IGF-IEa and MGF, caccatggggaaaatcagc; reverse primer for IGF-IEa, ctacattctgtaggtcttgtt; reverse primer for MGF, ctacttgtgttcttcaaatgta). The PCR amplification of these two products was performed using an annealing temperature of 56°C for 30 cycles. ß-Actin control primers were as follows: forward, ccgagcgtggctacagcttcac; reverse, gcacttgcggtgcacgatggag. The PCR amplification of ß-actin was performed using an annealing temperature of 64°C for 21 cycles. IGF-I cDNAs were cloned into the pVIVO vector (InvivoGen). Mice that had been GFPbone marrow transplanted 8 wk earlier were anesthetized with inhaled methoxyfluorane, the skin over their TA muscle was shaved, their leg thickness was measured with a caliber, and 10 µg of plasmid (pVIVO, pVIVOIGF-IEa, or pVIVOMGF) in 30 µl of saline was injected (using an insulin syringe, 29-gauge needle) into their TA muscles. Immediately after injection, an electric field was applied to the TA with the Electro Square Porator ECM 830 (BTX; Genetronics) using the following conditions: 200 V/cm, 20-ms pulse field, 176 ms of interval, and eight serial pulses, according to the protocol from the Rhone-Poulenc Company. Muscles were harvested 4 wk after injection and processed as described in Tissue analysis.
Construction of IGF-IEa and MGF retroviral vectors and genetic engineering of primary mouse myoblasts
The IGF-IEa and MGF cDNAs were cloned into the MFG-retroviral vector using the BamHI and XhoI sites, upstream of the internal ribosome entry siteCD8 sequence (Springer et al., 1998). Primary myoblasts isolated from C57Bl/6 mice and previously transduced to express ß-gal from a retroviral promoter (Rando and Blau, 1994) were infected again with four successive rounds of MFGIGF-IEa.CD8, MFGMGF.CD8, or MFG-CD8 control, yielding to >70% of the myoblasts of each population that was CD8+. Myoblast populations expressing CD8 on their membranes were isolated using a FACStar cell sorter (Becton Dickinson), using 0.2 µg/ml of an antiCD8-allophycocyaninconjugated antibody (BD Biosciences). 5 x 105 myoblasts from each population were injected in a 10-µl volume using an insulin syringe (29-gauge needle) into the TA of mice 8 wk after BMT.
For generating Cre-expressing myoblasts, primary myoblasts were infected with a retrovirus carrying the Cre-recombinase gene together with neomycin selection. Cells were subsequently selected with neomycin (1 mg/ml), and these cells were used for the co-culture experiment.
Western blot
Western blot analysis for IGF-I was performed using 4 µg/ml of a goat antiIGF-I primary antibody (Chemicon) and an antigoat-HRPconjugated secondary antibody (1:1,000 dilution; Bio-Rad Laboratories). For tubulin, 2 µg/ml antitubulin antibody (Sigma-Aldrich) and antimouse-HRPconjugated secondary antibody (1:10,000 dilution; Zymed Laboratories) were used.
Injection of recombinant mouse IGF-I
Mice that had been transplanted with GFP-expressing bone marrow 8 wk earlier were anesthetized with inhaled methoxyflurane, were shaved over their TA muscles, and received a single 10-µl dose of 1, 5, or 10 µg of the recombinant mouse IGF-I (carrier free; R&D Systems) in saline by i.m. injection into the TA muscle. As a control, saline alone was injected into the contralateral leg. Muscles were harvested 4 wk after injection and processed as described in Tissue analysis.
Tissue analysis
4 wk after injection, TA muscles were dissected and immersed in PBS/0.5% EM-grade PFA (Polysciences) for 2 h at RT followed by overnight immersion in PBS with 20% sucrose at 4°C. Fixed tissue was embedded in optimal cutting temperature compound (Tissue-Tek; Sakura Finetek), snap-frozen in isobutane and liquid nitrogen, and sectioned at 10 µm thickness. Tissue sections were blocked in PBS/20% normal goat serum/0.3% Triton X-100 (blocking buffer); incubated with primary antibodies (diluted in blocking buffer; 2 µg/ml rabbit anti-GFP [Invitrogen], 3 µg/ml rat anti-laminin-2 [Upstate Biotechnology], or 5 µg/ml rat anti-CD8a [BD Biosciences]); and incubated with 10 µg/ml of the secondary conjugated antibodies antirabbit-Alexa488 and antirat-Alexa546 (Invitrogen). Sections were then washed overnight and mounted with Fluoromount G. Images of muscle transverse sections were acquired using an epifluorescent microscope (Axioplan2; Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.), Fluar 20x/0.75 objective lenses, and a digital camera (ORCA-ER C4742-95; Hamamatsu Photonics). The software used for acquisition was OpenLab 4.0.2 (Improvision). All images were composed and edited in Photoshop 7.0 (Adobe). Background was reduced using brightness and contrast adjustments, and color balance was performed to enhance colors. All the modifications were applied to the whole image using Photoshop 7.0 (Adobe). GFP+ muscle fibers were counted using an epifluorescent microscope with a double-bandpass filter that distinguishes between GFP and autofluorescence to ensure that the GFP signal was authentic (Brazelton and Blau, 2005).
Quantification of GFP+ myofibers
To quantitate myofibers, we cut TA muscles, taking sections every 100 µm. All the sections were stained and analyzed, and GFP+ myofibers were counted and expressed as the mean ± SEM. In Figs. 1 and 2, all CD8+ myofibers were counted, ranging from 60 to 500 CD8+ myofibers per cross section. Among them, the percentage of GFP+ myofibers was calculated. In Fig. 3, total GFP+ myofibers per TA were scored (TA muscle contains 2,000 myofibers per cross section).
Cell sorting by flow cytometry
Bone marrow from GFP mice was isolated, suspended in FACS buffer (2.5% normal goat serum and 1 mM EDTA in PBS), and stained with 4 µg/ml specific antibodies to ckit and Sca1 directly conjugated to phycoerythrin, allophycocyanin, or phycoerythrin-Cy7 (all from BD Biosciences) and a lineage panel (mixture of biotinylated antibodies to Ter119, B220, CD3, Gr1, and CD11b; 1:30 dilution; BD Biosciences). Antibody-labeled cells were separated using streptavidin coupled to magnetic beads (Miltenyi Biotec) and then counterstained using 10 µg/ml streptavidin Texas red (BD Biosciences). Linckit+Sca1 cells (MMCs) were then fractionated and collected by flow cytometry (DIVA-Van; Becton Dickinson). The purity of the sorted MMC fraction was 90%.
Cell cycle analysis
MMCs were collected; resuspended in a solution of 0.1 mg/ml propidium iodide, 0.2% Tween 20, and 0.2 mg/ml RNase in PBS; incubated in the dark at 4°C for 2 h; and analyzed by FACS.
Cell culture experiments
6 x 104 freshly isolated MMCs (as described in Cell sorting by flow cytometry) were co-cultured with 6 x 104 myoblasts or Ara-Ctreated 3-d-old myotubes in 24 multiwells coated with laminin (Roche). Muscle differentiation was induced using low-serum DM (DME/2% horse serum) for up to 6 d in the presence or absence of 100 ng/ml human R3IGF-I (Sigma-Aldrich). As indicated in Results, in some of the experiments MMCs were cultured in myoblast GM (50% DME/10% FBS + 50% F10/20% FBS/50 ng/ml FGF) or in bone marrow medium (MEM/15% FBS supplemented with IL3, IL6, and stem cell factor cytokines). Cell cultures were then fixed in 1.5% PFA, blocked in blocking buffer, stained for GFP (rabbit; 2 µg/ml) and myogenin (mouse; 0.7 µg/ml; BD Biosciences), and incubated with 10 µg/ml of the secondary conjugated antibodies antirabbit-Alexa488 and antimouse-Alexa546. Cell cultures were then washed in PBS and left in PBS for imaging acquisition. Images of cell cultures were acquired using a laser-scanning confocal microscope (LSM510; Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc.) using Plan NeoFluar 20x/0.50 objective lenses and maximum optical section with the LSM software. Background was reduced using brightness and contrast adjustments, and color balance was performed to enhance colors. All the modifications were applied to the whole image using Photoshop 7.0. In these co-culture experiments, myotubes that had two or more nuclei and were myogenin+ were scored.
Time lapse
6 x 104 freshly isolated MMCs (as described in Cell sorting by flow cytometry) were cultured for 3 d in myoblast GM and then co-cultured with 6 x 104 Ara-Ctreated 3-d-old myotubes in 24 multiwells coated with laminin. Muscle differentiation was induced using low-serum DM. Immediately after the beginning of the co-culture, cells were monitored using a time-lapse apparatus (Carl Zeiss MicroImaging, Inc., CO2: CTI-Controller 3700 Digital; temperature: Tempcontrol 372 digital; scanning stage: Incubator XL 100/135 [PECON]) mounted on a laser-scanning confocal microscope. Images of cell cultures were acquired at 37°C every 10 min using a Plan NeoFluar 10x/0.50 objective lenses and maximum optical section with the LSM software. After the acquisition, pictures of the frames were analyzed using Image Ready 7.0 software.
Online supplemental material
Video 1 shows co-cultures of Ara-Ctreated 3-d-old wild-type primary myotubes (GFP) with MMCs (GFP+) kept in myoblast GM for 3 d. Online supplemental material is available at http://www.jcb.org/cgi/content/full/jcb.200506123/DC1.
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This work was supported by predoctoral fellowships to M.A. LaBarge (TG AG00259) and by National Institutes of Health grants (AG09521, HD18179, AG20961, and AG24987), a Senior Ellison Medical Foundation award (AG-SS-0817-03), and support from Novartis Institutes for Biomedical Research and the Baxter Foundation to H.M. Blau.
Submitted: 2 June 2005
Accepted: 4 October 2005
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