Journal: Nature
Article Title: Dynamic cytoskeletal regulation of cell shape supports resilience of lymphatic endothelium.
doi: 10.1038/s41586-025-08724-6
Figure Lengend Snippet: Fig. 1 | Junctional heterogeneity in capillary LECs. a, Whole-mount immunofluorescence of ear skin from a 25-week-old Cdh5-GFP mouse expressing VE-cadherin-GFP fusion protein (VE-cad). Boxed areas magnified below show unsegmented (arrows) and focal (arrowheads) VE-cadherin+ junctions in lymphatic capillary (left) and precollecting vessel (middle), and continuous zipper junctions in LYVE1− collecting vessel (right). b, Immunofluorescence in 12-week-old mouse ear skin showing VE-cadherin colocalization with CLDN5 at junctions. Line intensity profiles through lines 1 and 2 of respective stainings are depicted. c, Immunofluorescence at the indicated ages depicting junctional heterogeneity. Boxed areas are magnified. d,e, Quantification of lymphatic vessel sprouting (percentage of spiky ends of all lymphatic capillary ends, n = 7, 12 per respective stage, mean ± s.e.m.; d) and LEC proliferation (percentage Ki67+ of all LECs by flow cytometry, n = 3, 6, 8, 6 mice per respective stage, mean ± s.e.m.; e). f, Whole-mount silver nitrate (Ag) staining of ear dermis showing deposits around cell perimeter, including the lobe tips (arrow),
Article Snippet: Materials & experimental systems n/a Involved in the study Antibodies Eukaryotic cell lines Palaeontology and archaeology Animals and other organisms Clinical data Dual use research of concern Plants Methods n/a Involved in the study ChIP-seq Flow cytometry MRI-based neuroimaging Antibodies Antibodies used The following antibodies were used for whole mount immunofluorescence (dilution 1:100-1:500): chicken anti-GFP (ab13970, Abcam), goat anti-mouse VEGFR3 (AF743, R&D Systems), goat anti-mouse VE-cadherin (R&D Systems, AF1002), goat anti-mouse PECAM1 (R&D, Systems AF3628), mouse anti-HA tag, Alexa Fluor 647 (Cell Signalling Technology, 6E2), rabbit anti-alpha tubulin (Abcam, ab52866), rabbit anti-GFP (A11122, Thermo Fisher Scientific), rabbit anti-DsRed (Takara Bio, 632496), rabbit anti-mouse LYVE1 (Reliatech, 103-PA50AG), rabbit anti-mouse CLDN5 (Invitrogen, 34-1600), rat anti-mouse PECAM1 (553370, BD Pharmingen), rat anti-mouse LYVE1-Alexa FluorTM 488, Clone ALY7 (Invitrogen, 53-0443-82), rat anti-mouse LYVE1 (R&D Systems (MAB2125), rat Anti-Mouse CD29 Clone 9EG7 (BD Pharmingen, 553715) All secondary antibodies were conjugated to Cy3(JIR, 712-165-153),(JIR, 711-166-152), Dylight 405 (JIR, 712-475-153), Alexa Fluor 488 (JIR, 703-545-155), (JIR, 712-545-153), (JIR, 711-545-152), Alexa Fluor 594 (JIR, 705-585-147), Alexa Fluor 647(JIR, 712-605-153),(JIR, 705-605-147),(JIR, 711-605-152) or Alexa Fluor 680 (JIR, 705-625-147) were raised in donkey and obtained from Jackson ImmunoResearch(JIR) .
Techniques: Immunofluorescence, Expressing, Flow Cytometry, Staining