Gene Expression During the First 28 Days of Axolotl Limb Regeneration I: Experimental Design and Global Analysis of Gene Expression

Authors

S. Randal Voss, University of KentuckyFollow
Alex Palumbo, University of Kentucky
Radha Nagarajan, University of Kentucky
David M. Gardiner, University of California - Irvine
Ken Muneoka, Tulane University
Arnold J. Stromberg, University of KentuckyFollow
Antony T. Athippozhy, University of KentuckyFollow

Abstract

While it is appreciated that global gene expression analyses can provide novel insights about complex biological processes, experiments are generally insufficiently powered to achieve this goal. Here we report the results of a robust microarray experiment of axolotl forelimb regeneration. At each of 20 post-amputation time points, we estimated gene expression for 10 replicate RNA samples that were isolated from 1 mm of heterogeneous tissue collected from the distal limb tip. We show that the limb transcription program diverges progressively with time from the non-injured state, and divergence among time adjacent samples is mostly gradual. However, punctuated episodes of transcription were identified for five intervals of time, with four of these coinciding with well-described stages of limb regeneration—amputation, early bud, late bud, and pallet. The results suggest that regeneration is highly temporally structured and regulated by mechanisms that function within narrow windows of time to coordinate transcription within and across cell types of the regenerating limb. Our results provide an integrative framework for hypothesis generation using this complex and highly informative data set.

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

6-29-2015

Notes/Citation Information

Published in Regeneration, v. 2, issue 3, p. 120-136.

© 2015 The Authors. Regeneration published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

https://doi.org/10.1002/reg2.37

Repository Citation

Voss, S. Randal; Palumbo, Alex; Nagarajan, Radha; Gardiner, David M.; Muneoka, Ken; Stromberg, Arnold J.; and Athippozhy, Antony T., "Gene Expression During the First 28 Days of Axolotl Limb Regeneration I: Experimental Design and Global Analysis of Gene Expression" (2015). Biology Faculty Publications. 116.
https://uknowledge.uky.edu/biology_facpub/116