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. 2010 Sep 15;9(18):3667–3673. doi: 10.4161/cc.9.18.13119

Epimorphic regeneration in mice is p53-independent

L Matthew Arthur 1, Renee M Demarest 1, Lise Clark 1, Dmitri Gourevitch 1, Kamila Bedelbaeva 1,2, Rhonda Anderson 2, Andrew Snyder 3, Anthony J Capobianco 4, Paul Lieberman 1, Lionel Feigenbaum 2, E Heber-Katz 1,
PMCID: PMC3047795  PMID: 20855943

Abstract

The process of regeneration is most readily studied in species of sponge, hydra, planarian and salamander (i.e., newt and axolotl). The closure of MRL mouse ear pinna through-and-through holes provides a mammalian model of unusual wound healing/regeneration in which a blastema-like structure closes the ear hole and cartilage and hair follicles are replaced. Recent studies, based on a broad level of DNA damage and a cell cycle pattern of G2/M “arrest,” showed that p21Cip1/Waf1 was missing from the MRL mouse ear and that a p21-null mouse could close its ear holes. Given the p53/p21 axis of control of DNA damage, cell cycle arrest, apoptosis and senescence, we tested the role of p53 in the ear hole regenerative response. Using backcross mice, we found that loss of p53 in MRL mice did not show reduced healing. Furthermore, cross sections of MRL. p53−/− mouse ears at 6 weeks post-injury showed an increased level of adipocytes and chondrocytes in the region of healing whereas MRL or p21−/− mice showed chondrogenesis alone in this same region, though at later time points. In addition, we also investigated other cell cyclerelated mutant mice to determine how p21 was being regulated. We demonstrate that p16 and Gadd45 null mice show little healing capacity. Interestingly, a partial healing phenotype in mice with a dual Tgfβ/Rag2 knockout mutation was seen. These data demonstrate an independence of p53 signaling for mouse appendage regeneration and suggest that the role of p21 in this process is possibly through the abrogation of the Tgfβ/Smad pathway.

Key words: mouse, regeneration, p53, p21, MRL, ear-hole, Tgfβ

Introduction

A large number of species are capable of regeneration in some form and degree with different structures being regenerated. The most efficient regenerators include hydra and planaria, which can regenerate their whole body from only a small part of it. Vertebrates also include potent regenerators such as the urodele amphibians or newts and salamanders, which can regenerate limbs and other structures after amputation. Examples of mammalian regeneration are not common; although, many mammalian tissues possess the ability to regenerate as individual cell populations. These include bone, immune tissue, peripheral nerve, skeletal muscle and liver.13

The response to traumatic injury in tissues of higher organisms can proceed through either the process of wound repair and scar formation or through a poorly understood mechanism involving the formation of a blastema. Tissue regeneration through blastema formation is referred to as “epimorphic regeneration”. Blastema cells proliferate until the replacement and restoration of correct cellular architecture and differentiation into multiple cell types is achieved.4

Examples of mammalian epimorphic regeneration include the regrowth of antlers of deer5 and moose3 and punched ear hole closure in rabbits.6 Among these examples is the MRL mouse, first identified in 1996 as a mouse model of regeneration, which exhibits closure of punched ear holes with the formation of a blastema-like structures. This results in the perfect replacement of cartilage, hair follicles and sebaceous glands, as well as proliferating cells.7 Classifying a regenerative process as epimorphic regeneration is usually accomplished by comparing the process to that of limb regeneration in the amphibian. MRL mouse ear hole closure does exhibit such processes including wound epidermal proliferation, basement membrane breakdown,8 and dermal proliferation leading to hole closure.7

We have recently reported that the p21Cip1/Waf1 protein provides a possible link between cell cycle control and appendage regeneration in mice.9 This finding is derived from an in vitro study of cells from the MRL ear pinna, which demonstrated a higher proliferative rate than cells from non-regenerating mouse ears and a different cell cycle pattern with a significantly higher number of cells in G2 “arrest” than cells from non-regenerating mouse ears. We also found a DNA damage response (DDR) and widespread DNA damage demonstrated by almost 90% of healer cells being cometpositive and with increased p53 levels. Examination of these cells for defects in G1 checkpoint genes showed that the p21Cip1/Waf1 protein was lacking in healer cells. Using Cdkn1atmi/Tyj/J p21−/− mice, deficient in the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitor protein p21Cip1/Waf1 for wounding experiments, we showed similar regenerative competency as seen in MRL mice, which provided a new transgenic mouse model of regeneration.

Consistent with the increased DDR in cells derived from regeneration-competent hosts, we found that the p53 gene was also upregulated in MRL regenerative cells both pre- and post-injury. It is generally considered that p21 is a major downstream effector of p53.10 Therefore, we investigated the role of p53 in the regenerative response.

The Role of p53 in the Regenerative Response

p53 is a tumor suppressor protein that is central to genomic stability and is mutated in over 50% of all cancers.11 This molecule plays an important role in the cellular response to multiple types of stress including nucleotide depletion, hypoxia, oncogene activation or exposure to DNA damaging agents.11,12

Specific signaling pathways cope with genotoxic stress by initiating pauses in cell cycle progression to allow cells to survive and maintain themselves until the damage has been resolved or the stress has been removed.13 This is accomplished by cell cycle arrest, DNA repair, inhibition of ROS, angiogenesis through metabolic changes and autophagy. If the damage cannot be repaired, then multiple mechanisms can remove such cells via senescence, innate immune responses, apoptosis and tissue renewal. The activation and stabilization of p53 due to these multiple stress signals, depending on the amount of damage and tissue type, demonstrates the importance of p53 in many cellular functions. p53 has been directly implicated in activating these genotoxic pathways.1418 All of these processes create a very complicated view of the functions of p53 in particular physiological contexts and specifically the pathways involving p21Waf1/Cip1.

The p53/p21 pathway functions in determining cell arrest, apoptosis or senescence in response to genotoxic stress.15 p21Waf1/Cip1 was originally identified as an inhibitor of cyclin/cyclin-dependent kinases, a molecular complex necessary to proceed through the cell cycle. As a mediator of p53 in growth suppression, it is a marker for senescence in fibroblasts.19 p21Waf1/Cip1 is a member of the CIP/KIP family of CDK inhibitors that also include p27 and p57 that can inhibit a wide range of cyclin/CDKs to control progression through the cell cycle. The canonical function of the p21 protein is to direct cell cycle arrest in response to DNA damage in a p53-dependent manner.20,21 The process involves the binding of p21 to cyclin-CDKs, specifically cyclin D-CDK4/6 in G0, preventing this complex from phosphorylating the retinoblastoma protein (pRb). Normally, hypophosphorylated Rb forms a transcriptional repressive complex with E2F that prevents expression of S phase-specific genes. Phosphorylation of pRb relieves transcription repression of E2F target genes, promoting cell cycle progression. p21 prevents Rb phosphorylation and maintains G1 arrest. The function of p21 in cell cycle arrest has also been extended to include S and G2 checkpoints through the interaction with PCNA and 14-3-3σ, respectively.2224

In addition to the cell cycle checkpoint function of p21 in a p53-dependent manner, p21 also plays a direct p53-independent role in cellular senescence.2527 Cellular senescence is defined as a permanent cell cycle arrest that can be triggered by an increase in reactive oxygen species, telomere shortening or by upregulation of an oncogene resulting in replicative stress.28 The function of senescence in cells appears to be a way of providing an obstacle to the progression of cancer by preventing damaged cells from undergoing aberrant proliferation.2935 The two major pathways for activating senescence are controlled by p16Ink or p53/p21, both of which lead to Rb hypophosphorylation. The p53-dependent senescence is directly modulated by p21 through detection of cellular stress; however, there have been other reports demonstrating that p21 can also elicit senescence in a p53-independent manner.36,37 For example, p21 was found to be essential in upregulating senescence-specific markers in cells that did not express p53.

A recent study18 examining hair follicle regeneration relates to our studies of ear hole regeneration. It was shown that p53 is an important component in the renewal of adult tissues that have “increased genomic instability phenotypes.”18,34,38 The activity of p53 is thought to be involved in clearing out cells that have accumulated DNA damage. This results in the induction of senescence and immune-mediated clearance.33 It is proposed that the accumulation of damaged cells that persist in adult tissue that fail to be cleared by p53-mediated mechanisms act as an obstruction to stem cell proliferation and tissue renewal.39 Thus, p53-induced senescence is required for tissue regeneration and the removal of p53 causes tissue renewal to become delayed due to the accumulation of damaged cells.

Given the discussion above, we asked several questions:

  1. If DNA damage and a DDR are seen and p53 is upregulated while p21 is downregulated as seen in the MRL mouse, what response should we expect? DNA damage should lead to p53 activation and an apoptotic response10,21 and not to senescence40 in the absence of p21. We actually found an increase in TUNEL-positive cells in regenerative MRL tissue, indicating that DNA damage is tolerated in these cells. We have not seen evidence for an increase in apoptosis in regenerative cells in culture.9

  2. upregulated in the MRL tissue, is p53 necessary to accomplish an ear hole closure regenerative response? To answer this, we crossed a p53−/− mouse41 to MRL producing first (MRLxp53+/−) F1 mutant mice, then MRLx(MRLxp53+/−) BC1 mutant mice, and then IC1 intercross mice producing WT, heterozygous and homozygous mutants. As seen in Fig. 1A, 30 days after ear-punching (2 mm punch) of 8 week old mice, all female mice healed with a mean ear hole diameter ranging from 0.2−0.4 mm as is normally seen in parental MRL female mice.7 There were no statistically significant differences between WT (n = 11), heterozygous (n = 18) and homozygous p53 nulls (n = 5) even though the average homozygous null female hole size appeared smaller than the other two groups. The males showed larger hole sizes just on the border of the healing phenotype42 but, again, we found no significant differences in healing between any of the groups. Although more mice need to be analyzed, these early studies indicate that p53 is not essential for ear hole closure. It is clear from these results that lack of p53 does not have a negative effect on the regenerative ear hole closure response and may even have a beneficial effect. As discussed below (Fig. 3B), MRL.p53−/− healing ear tissue displays interesting differences histologically from the MRL/MpJ healing ear tissue.

  3. Since p53 is a key activator of p21, one question concerns why p21 is down in the MRL regenerator even though p53 is up. This would suggest that the MRL p53/p21 interaction is defective. Would elimination of p53 then lead to a regenerative response similar to that seen with the elimination of p21? To approach this question, we crossed heterozygous B6.p53 mutant mice43 and then ear-punched all offspring at 8–10 weeks of age. As shown below (Fig. 1B), no significant differences were seen between the WT, heterozygous and homozygous p53 mutant mice with ear holes closing between 1.5–2.0 mm after 30 days, considered to be a non-healer phenotype.42 Interestingly, female mice, which are usually better healers than males, showed no significant differences.42

Figure 1.

Figure 1

Mice were ear-punched using a 2 mm hole punch and hole diameter was read 2 and 4 weeks post-injury. Red columns = female mice, the blue columns = male mice; error bars show standard deviations. (A) MRL/MpJ mice were bred to p53−/− mice41 and IC1 intercrosses were tested as WT, heterozygous and homozygous null for the p53 allele. (B) B6.p53−/− mice43 were bred from B6.p53+/− litters and WT, heterozygous and homozygous p53 null mice were examined.

Figure 3.

Figure 3

Histological analysis of ear sections from ear-punched mice 42 days post-injury. Ears were fixed and embedded,and sections through the hole were stained with Alcian blue (cartilage). In (A) sections at low magnification (4X) show the degree of healing with hatched lines indicating the likely original hole cut. Above, there is a marker showing 2 mm (the original size of the hole). In (B) there are higher magnifications (20X) of the selected healing/regenerating ear tissue showing sections from (a) an MRL/MpJ mouse, (b) 3 different MRL.p53−/− mice, (c) a TgfB1−/−Rag2−/− mouse and (d) a p21−/− mouse. Arrows indicate adipocytes (red), chondrocytes (blue-green) and hair follicles (black).

These results clearly demonstrate that p53 is not required for tissue and appendage (ear hole closure) epimorphic regeneration even in the case of high background levels of DNA damage as seen in the MRL mouse. This also suggests that p53-induced senescence and subsequent removal by the immune response is not essential for regeneration in the ear hole closure model. We have not ruled out p16-induced senescence, which is independent of p53 and p21. However, this typically is associated with the activation of an oncogene and we expect that this pathway is not involved in regeneration. We have shown that the p16-null transgenic mouse does not close ear holes (Fig. 2) and we are breeding p21/p16−/− mice to further investigate the role of senescence in regeneration.

Figure 2.

Figure 2

Preliminary analysis of mutant mice derived from MMHCC for regeneration capability. The ear pinnae of mice (n = 2 to 5) were wounded by hole punching and followed for 6 weeks. Healer (regeneration-competent) controls (MRL/MpJ and p21−/−) and non-healer (regeneration-incompetent) controls (B6, FVB) are included in this study. The experimental mice tested include GADD45−/−, p16−/− and tgfβ1, rag2−/−.

Evidence for a p53-Independent p21-Activation Pathway

An interesting feature of primary mouse ear fibroblasts from MRL mice is that approximately 50% of the cells appear to be in the G2 phase of the cell cycle.9 This is similar to the G2/M bias observed in regenerative tissue from hydra, embryonic stem cells and in the liver.4450 To determine if our regeneration phenotype is due to a lack of cell cycle checkpoint controls, we screened various transgenic mice that are deficient in cell cycle checkpoint proteins. In collaboration with the MMHCC mouse repository in Frederick, Maryland, we were able to carry out a preliminary screen of transgenic and targeted-mutant mice for regeneration phenotypes as demonstrated by mean ear hole closure over 6 weeks as seen in Figure 2. The specific cell cycle checkpoint proteins examined were p16 and GADD45, which are proteins that have been shown to function in the G1 and/or G2 checkpoints of the cell cycle, respectively.51,52

Ear wounds in p16−/− mice on an FVB background53 and in GADD45−/− mice on a B6/129 background54 showed no hole closure. Figure 2 shows that neither targeted mutant knockouts healed differently than the negative controls. Other proteins such as p27 and p15 are also under investigation to determine whether the regeneration phenotype depends on an intact cell cycle checkpoint response. If DNA damage and senescence is at the heart of the regenerative response, then a p16−/− mouse should lead to no healing and that is what we see. However, the elimination of p16 in the context of a healing MRL or p21−/− mouse showed no healing beyond the negative controls. As mentioned above, crosses of p21 and p16 mutant null mice are being generated since these are the two key molecules important in senescence.31,5557

If senescence is not involved, what p53-independent control mechanisms of p21 might be involved in enabling the regeneration phenotype? The p21 protein has been shown to regulate cell cycle progression through the control of the Rb protein phosphorylation.58 To this end, mice, which are deficient in the molecules downstream of p21, are being tested for their ability to regenerate tissue. Given that Rb knockout mice die in utero,59 Rb heterozygous knockout mice show no ear hole closure capacity. p21 acts through Rb indirectly to control E2F transcription factors and allow for progression through the cell cycle.10

One major p53-independent regulatory mechanism of p21, which is involved in cell growth or inhibition and differentiation, is the Tgfβ1/Smad pathway.60 Tgfβ1 directs multiple cellular activities in embryonic and adult tissues including proliferation, differentiation, migration and apoptosis, all of which play a role in regeneration.6163 The regulation of p21 by Tgfβ1 has been shown to be mediated by Smad2 and 3.64,65

Is the Tgfβ/Smad pathway involved in the regeneration phenotype of the transgenic p21 knockout mouse? Various transgenic mouse studies have investigated the role of Tgfβ family members in wound repair.66 Specifically, Tgfβ1-deficient mice with full-thickness excisional back skin wounds show a severe delay in late-stage wound repair due to increased inflammation and, even when crossed onto a Scid background to compensate for lethality, healing is delayed due to multifocal inflammatory disease.67,68

There is also data showing that Smad3-null mice present accelerated wound healing with an increase in tissue renewal through re-epithelialization as well as reduced inflammation.69,70 This pathway is of particular interest, because Smad3 has been implicated as a candidate gene in our genetic mapping studies of healer MRL and parental LG mice.71 A notable experiment using liver transplantation in rats shows that Ad-Smad7, which inhibits Smad3, enhances liver regeneration and shows normal levels of p27 and p15, but no expression of p21, which suggests that there is a Smad3/p21 specific pathway.72

During our screen for healer mice, we tested a Tgfβ1 knockout mouse. Tgfβ1-null mice are lethal due to an early inflammatory response so they were crossed onto a Rag2-null B6/129 background.73 Preliminary results indicate that there is partial healing more so than the negative control WT mice (Fig. 2). Rag2−/− mice alone are non-healers (data not shown). Further testing of these mice showed unreadable and inflamed ear wounds, which were extensively torn, suggesting that the mice were still pro-inflammatory. This may also explain the unusual results seen in Smad3−/− mouse ear wounds,70 which showed large and highly irregular holes.

Differentiation in Regenerating Tissue

Examination of the histology of ears from ear-punched mice shows that the B6.p53-null mice do not exhibit newly developed tissue and seem to have gone through normal healing and scarring as seen in B6 mice (Fig. 3A). However, analysis of ear tissue from the p21-null mice displays newly formed dermal tissue, limited chondrogenesis and newly formed hair follicles at 6 weeks after wounding, similar to MRL.7 Previous reports have shown a dependence on p53 for hair follicle regeneration.18 Here, we report that the formation of new hair follicles is through a p21-independent mechanism. On the other hand, MRL.p53−/− ears show unusual responses. At 6 weeks, the re-grown ear tissue not only has new dermal tissue but also extensive adipogenesis and/or chondrogenesis indicating more rapid differentiation to adipocytes and chondrocytes in new tissue. This supports a recent study showing that p53 inhibits adipogenesis.74 It is possible that this response lacking p53 would lead to enhanced ear-hole closure which is supported by our ear hole closure results above (Fig. 1A). Also, this relates to recent studies showing that IPS induction is enhanced by the lack of both p53 and p21.75

Taken together, we show that in the MRL ear hole closure model, an example of epimorphic regeneration which involves the replacement of multiple tissue types including cartilage, hair follicles and sebaceous glands, there is not a requirement for p53.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank N. Dahmane for useful discussions and Keith Smith, Dawn Crummkitt, Nicole Roberts for their help with the MMHCC studies. Support for these studies came from the F.M. Kirby Foundation, Inc., the G. Harold and Leila Y. Mathers Foundation, an NIH ARRA grant from NIGMS, NCI Cancer Center Grant (P30 CA10815) and from the Lab Animal Sciences Program, Frederick. L.M.A. was supported by the Training Program Grant in Basic Cancer Biology 5T32CA09171.

Footnotes

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