Skeletal muscles are composed of different types of fibres. Can these be thought of as distinct lineages with specific lineage-restricted progenitors? A provocative study now proposes that mesenchymal cells expressing the transcription factor Twist2 act as myogenic progenitors with selective type IIb fibre-differentiation potential.
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Goloviznina, N., Kyba, M. Twist of fate for skeletal muscle mesenchymal cells. Nat Cell Biol 19, 153–154 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncb3482
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