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Rousselle P, Laigle C, Rousselet G. The basement membrane in epidermal polarity, stemness, and regeneration. Am J Physiol Cell Physiol 2022; 323:C1807-C1822. [PMID: 36374168 DOI: 10.1152/ajpcell.00069.2022] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The epidermis is a specialized epithelium that constitutes the outermost layer of the skin, and it provides a protective barrier against environmental assaults. Primarily consisting of multilayered keratinocytes, the epidermis is continuously renewed by proliferation of stem cells and the differentiation of their progeny, which undergo terminal differentiation as they leave the basal layer and move upward toward the surface, where they die and slough off. Basal keratinocytes rest on a basement membrane at the dermal-epidermal junction that is composed of specific extracellular matrix proteins organized into interactive and mechanically supportive networks. Firm attachment of basal keratinocytes, and their dynamic regulation via focal adhesions and hemidesmosomes, is essential for maintaining major skin processes, such as self-renewal, barrier function, and resistance to physical and chemical stresses. The adhesive integrin receptors expressed by epidermal cells serve structural, signaling, and mechanosensory roles that are critical for epidermal cell anchorage and tissue homeostasis. More specifically, the basement membrane components play key roles in preserving the stem cell pool, and establishing cell polarity cues enabling asymmetric cell divisions, which result in the transition from a proliferative basal cell layer to suprabasal cells committed to terminal differentiation. Finally, through a well-regulated sequence of synthesis and remodeling, the components of the dermal-epidermal junction play an essential role in regeneration of the epidermis during skin healing. Here too, they provide biological and mechanical signals that are essential to the restoration of barrier function.
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- Patricia Rousselle
- Laboratoire de Biologie Tissulaire et Ingénierie Thérapeutique, UMR 5305, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Tissulaire et Ingénierie Thérapeutique, UMR 5305, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Tissulaire et Ingénierie Thérapeutique, UMR 5305, CNRS, Université Lyon 1, Lyon, France
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Hoshiba T. A decellularized extracellular matrix derived from keratinocytes can suppress cellular senescence induced by replicative and oxidative stresses. Biomater Sci 2022; 10:6828-6835. [DOI: 10.1039/d2bm00897a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Keratinocyte senescence is suppressed on a keratinocyte-derived decellularized ECM (dECM) through the increase of antioxidant activity. Keratinocyte function is also increased on this dECM, suggesting that this dECM is useful to establish epidermal models.
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- Takashi Hoshiba
- Biotechnology Group, Tokyo Metropolitan Industrial Technology Research Institute, 2-4-10 Aomi, Koto-ku, Tokyo, 135-0064, Japan
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Jaurila H, Koskela M, Koivukangas V, Gäddnäs F, Salo T, Ala-Kokko TI. Growth factor expression is enhanced and extracellular matrix proteins are depressed in healing skin wounds in septic patients compared with healthy controls. APMIS 2021; 130:155-168. [PMID: 34939229 PMCID: PMC9305760 DOI: 10.1111/apm.13175] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 12/22/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Sepsis manifests as a dysregulated immune response to infection, damaging organs. Skin has a critical role in protecting the body. In sepsis, skin wound healing is impaired. The mechanisms behind it have been poorly studied. In this study, suction blister wounds were induced on intact abdominal skin in 15 septic patients. A single blister wound was biopsied from each patient and from 10 healthy controls. Immunohistochemical staining of growth factors and extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins was performed. Significance (p < 0.05) of the differences was calculated. The following growth factors were overexpressed in the skin of septic patients compared with healthy controls: epithelial growth factor (intact epithelium p = 0.007, migrating epithelium p = 0.038), vascular epithelial growth factor (intact epithelium p < 0.001, migrating epithelium p = 0.011) and transforming growth factor beta (migrating epithelium p = 0.002). The expression of syndecan‐1 was upregulated in the skin of septic patients compared with healthy controls (intact epithelium p = 0.048, migrating epithelium p = 0.028). The following ECM proteins had lower expression in the epithelium in septic patients than in healthy controls: tenascin‐C (migrating epithelium p = 0.03) and laminin‐332 (intact epithelium p = 0.036). In sepsis, growth factor and syndecan expression was enhanced, while ECM and basement membrane proteins were mostly depressed.
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- Henna Jaurila
- ¹Research Group of Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland.,Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland
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- ¹Research Group of Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland
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- ¹Research Group of Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland
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- ¹Research Group of Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland
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- Cancer and Translational Medicine Research Unit, Faculty of Medicine, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland.,Research Group of Oral Health Sciences, Oulu University Hospital, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland
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- ¹Research Group of Surgery, Anesthesia and Intensive Care, Oulu University Hospital, Oulu, Finland, Medical Research Center Oulu, University of Oulu, Finland
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Choi YE, Song MJ, Hara M, Imanaka-Yoshida K, Lee DH, Chung JH, Lee ST. Effects of Tenascin C on the Integrity of Extracellular Matrix and Skin Aging. Int J Mol Sci 2020; 21:ijms21228693. [PMID: 33217999 PMCID: PMC7698786 DOI: 10.3390/ijms21228693] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/27/2020] [Revised: 11/14/2020] [Accepted: 11/16/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Tenascin C (TNC) is an element of the extracellular matrix (ECM) of various tissues, including the skin, and is involved in modulating ECM integrity and cell physiology. Although skin aging is apparently associated with changes in the ECM, little is known about the role of TNC in skin aging. In this study, we found that the Tnc mRNA level was significantly reduced in the skin tissues of aged mice compared with young mice, consistent with reduced TNC protein expression in aged human skin. TNC-large (TNC-L; 330-kDa) and -small (TNC-S; 240-kDa) polypeptides were observed in conditional media from primary dermal fibroblasts. Both recombinant TNC polypeptides, corresponding to TNC-L and TNC-S, increased the expression of type I collagen and reduced the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-1 in fibroblasts. Treatment of fibroblasts with a recombinant TNC polypeptide, corresponding to TNC-L, induced phosphorylation of SMAD2 and SMAD3. TNC increased the level of transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) mRNA and upregulated the expression of type I collagen by activating the TGF-β signaling pathway. In addition, TNC also promoted the expression of type I collagen in fibroblasts embedded in a three-dimensional collagen matrix. Our findings suggest that TNC contributes to the integrity of ECM in young skin and to prevention of skin aging.
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- Young Eun Choi
- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea;
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- Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 03080, Korea; (M.J.S.); (D.H.L.); (J.H.C.)
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- Department of Pathology and Matrix Biology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu 514-8507, Japan; (M.H.); (K.I.-Y.)
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- Department of Pathology and Matrix Biology, Mie University Graduate School of Medicine, Tsu 514-8507, Japan; (M.H.); (K.I.-Y.)
- Mie University Research Center for Matrix Biology, Tsu 514-8507, Japan
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- Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 03080, Korea; (M.J.S.); (D.H.L.); (J.H.C.)
- Institute of Human-Environment Interface Biology, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 03080, Korea
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- Department of Dermatology, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seoul 03080, Korea; (M.J.S.); (D.H.L.); (J.H.C.)
- Institute of Human-Environment Interface Biology, Medical Research Center, Seoul National University, Seoul 03080, Korea
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- Department of Biochemistry, College of Life Science and Biotechnology, Yonsei University, Seoul 03722, Korea;
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +82-2-2123-2703
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Nakanishi Y, Okada T, Takeuchi N, Kozono N, Senju T, Nakayama K, Nakashima Y. Histological evaluation of tendon formation using a scaffold-free three-dimensional-bioprinted construct of human dermal fibroblasts under in vitro static tensile culture. Regen Ther 2019; 11:47-55. [PMID: 31193148 PMCID: PMC6517794 DOI: 10.1016/j.reth.2019.02.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/06/2018] [Revised: 01/11/2019] [Accepted: 02/03/2019] [Indexed: 10/26/2022] Open
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Introduction Tendon tissue engineering requires scaffold-free techniques for safe and long-term clinical applications and to explore alternative cell sources to tenocytes. Therefore, we histologically assessed tendon formation in a scaffold-free Bio-three-dimensional (3D) construct developed from normal human dermal fibroblasts (NHDFs) using our Bio-3D printer system under tensile culture in vitro. Methods Scaffold-free ring-like tissues were constructed from 120 multicellular spheroids comprising NHDFs using a bio-3D printer. Ring-like tissues were cultured in vitro under static tensile-loading with or without in-house tensile devices (tension-loaded and tension-free groups), with increases in tensile strength applied weekly to the tensile-loaded group. After a 4 or 8-week culture on the device, we evaluated histological findings according to tendon-maturing score and immunohistological findings of the middle portion of the tissues for both groups (n = 4, respectively). Results Histology of the tension-loaded group revealed longitudinally aligned collagen fibers with increased collagen deposition and spindle-shaped cells with prolonged culture. By contrast, the tension-free group showed no organized cell arrangement or collagen fiber structure. Additionally, the tension-loaded group showed a significantly improved tendon-maturing score as compared with that for the tension-free group at week 8. Moreover, immunohistochemistry revealed tenascin C distribution with a parallel arrangement in the tensile-loading direction at week 8 in the tension-loaded group, which exhibited stronger scleraxis-staining intensity than that observed in the tension-free group at weeks 4 and 8. Conclusions The NHDF-generated scaffold-free Bio-3D construct underwent remodeling and formed tendon-like structures under tensile culture in vitro.
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- Yoshitaka Nakanishi
- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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- Department of Regenerative Medicine and Biomedical Engineering, Faculty of Medicine, Saga University, Honjyo 1-chome, Honjyo-cho, Saga, 840-8502, Japan
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- Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Kyushu University, 3-1-1, Maidashi, Higashiku, Fukuoka-shi, Fukuoka, 812-8582, Japan
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The Streptococcus pyogenes fibronectin/tenascin-binding protein PrtF.2 contributes to virulence in an influenza superinfection. Sci Rep 2018; 8:12126. [PMID: 30108238 PMCID: PMC6092322 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-018-29714-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/19/2018] [Accepted: 07/13/2018] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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Influenza A virus (IAV) and Streptococcus pyogenes (the group A Streptococcus; GAS) are important contributors to viral-bacterial superinfections, which result from incompletely defined mechanisms. We identified changes in gene expression following IAV infection of A549 cells. Changes included an increase in transcripts encoding proteins with fibronectin-type III (FnIII) domains, such as fibronectin (Fn), tenascin N (TNN), and tenascin C (TNC). We tested the idea that increased expression of TNC may affect the outcome of an IAV-GAS superinfection. To do so, we created a GAS strain that lacked the Fn-binding protein PrtF.2. We found that the wild-type GAS strain, but not the mutant, co-localized with TNC and bound to purified TNC. In addition, adherence of the wild-type strain to IAV-infected A549 cells was greater compared to the prtF.2 mutant. The wild-type strain was also more abundant in the lungs of mice 24 hours after superinfection compared to the mutant strain. Finally, all mice infected with IAV and the prtF.2 mutant strain survived superinfection compared to only 42% infected with IAV and the parental GAS strain, indicating that PrtF.2 contributes to virulence in a murine model of IAV-GAS superinfection.
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Rousselle P, Montmasson M, Garnier C. Extracellular matrix contribution to skin wound re-epithelialization. Matrix Biol 2018; 75-76:12-26. [PMID: 29330022 DOI: 10.1016/j.matbio.2018.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 156] [Impact Index Per Article: 26.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/30/2017] [Revised: 12/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/01/2018] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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The ability of skin to act as a barrier is primarily determined by cells that maintain the continuity and integrity of skin and restore it after injury. Cutaneous wound healing in adult mammals is a complex multi-step process that involves overlapping stages of blood clot formation, inflammation, re-epithelialization, granulation tissue formation, neovascularization, and remodeling. Under favorable conditions, epidermal regeneration begins within hours after injury and takes several days until the epithelial surface is intact due to reorganization of the basement membrane. Regeneration relies on numerous signaling cues and on multiple cellular processes that take place both within the epidermis and in other participating tissues. A variety of modulators are involved, including growth factors, cytokines, matrix metalloproteinases, cellular receptors, and extracellular matrix components. Here we focus on the involvement of the extracellular matrix proteins that impact epidermal regeneration during wound healing.
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- Patricia Rousselle
- Laboratoire de Biologie Tissulaire et Ingénierie Thérapeutique, UMR 5305, CNRS - Université Lyon 1, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, SFR BioSciences Gerland-Lyon Sud, 7 passage du Vercors, F-69367, France.
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Tissulaire et Ingénierie Thérapeutique, UMR 5305, CNRS - Université Lyon 1, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, SFR BioSciences Gerland-Lyon Sud, 7 passage du Vercors, F-69367, France
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- Laboratoire de Biologie Tissulaire et Ingénierie Thérapeutique, UMR 5305, CNRS - Université Lyon 1, Institut de Biologie et Chimie des Protéines, SFR BioSciences Gerland-Lyon Sud, 7 passage du Vercors, F-69367, France
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Peschen M, Schild A, Brand-Saberi B, Rogers AA, Augustin M, Schöpf E, Vanscheidt W. Expression and Distribution of Laminin, Fibronectin and Tenascin is Stage Dependently Modulated in the Skin of Chronic Venous Insufficiency. Phlebology 2016. [DOI: 10.1177/026835559801300306] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/15/2022]
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Objective: The regulation of tissue remodelling is a function of extracellular matrix (ECM) deposition. Our aim was to determine the expression and distribution pattern of the ECM proteins laminin, fibronectin and tenascin in all stages of chronic venous insufficiency (CVI) from telangiectases to ulceration. Methods: In punch biopsies of 25 patients with various stages of CVI and five healthy volunteers, ECM proteins were stained using indirect immunofluroescence. The staining pattern in the affected skin was evaluated by two independent, double-blinded investigators by microscopic examination. Results: In specimens of healthy skin or skin with telangiectases or pigmentation, a faint and partly inhomogeneous ECM staining pattern was detected in the upper dermis. In venous eczema, lipodermatosclerosis and venous leg ulcers, an increased expression and a wide-meshed distribution pattern throughout the dermis was observed for laminin, fibronectin and tenascin. Fragmentation of ECM components was first observed in venous eczema, persisting in the more severe stages of CVI. Laminin staining revealed unusual streak-like distributions in the papillary dermis, pronounced in Pigmentation and lipodermatosclerosis and diminished in leg ulcers. Conclusions: Our results indicate an important role of laminin, fibronectin and tenascin, and in particular of their proteolytic fragments, in the early phases of CVI, such as venous eczema, by creating permissive environments for cell migration and differentiation, essential for wound healing.
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- Department of Convatec Wound Healing Research Institute, Deeside, UK
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Tenascin-C (TNC) is highly expressed in cancer tissues. Its cellular sources are cancer and stromal cells, including fibroblasts/myofibroblasts, and also vascular cells. TNC expressed in cancer tissues dominantly contains large splice variants. Deposition of the stroma promotes the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, proliferation, and migration of cancer cells. It also facilitates the formation of cancer stroma including desmoplasia and angiogenesis. Integrin receptors that mediate the signals of TNC have also been discussed.
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Key Words
- CAF, cancer-associated fibroblasts
- ECM, extracellular matrix
- EDA, extra domain A
- EMT, epithelial-mesenchymal transition
- FAK, focal adhesion kinase
- FBG, fibrinogen-like globe
- FN, fibronectin
- FNIII, fibronectin type III-like
- HS, heparan sulfate
- ISH, in situ hybridization
- LAP, latency-associated peptide
- MMPs, matrix metalloproteinases
- OPN, osteopontin
- PDGF, platelet-derived growth factor
- RPTP, receptor protein-tyrosine phosphatase
- Stromal cell
- TGF, transforming growth factor
- TNC, tenascin-C
- VN, vitronectin
- cancer cell
- integrins
- splice variant
- tenascin-C
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- Toshimichi Yoshida
- a Department of Pathology and Matrix Biology ; Mie University Graduate School of Medicine
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Ali N, Hosseini M, Vainio S, Taïeb A, Cario‐André M, Rezvani H. Skin equivalents: skin from reconstructions as models to study skin development and diseases. Br J Dermatol 2015; 173:391-403. [DOI: 10.1111/bjd.13886] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Accepted: 04/01/2015] [Indexed: 12/17/2022]
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- N. Ali
- Laboratory of Developmental Biology Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine University of Oulu and Biocenter Oulu Aapistie 5A 90220 Oulu Finland
- Inserm U 1035 33076 Bordeaux France
- Université de Bordeaux 146 rue Léo Saignat 33076 Bordeaux France
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- Inserm U 1035 33076 Bordeaux France
- Université de Bordeaux 146 rue Léo Saignat 33076 Bordeaux France
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- Laboratory of Developmental Biology Faculty of Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine University of Oulu and Biocenter Oulu Aapistie 5A 90220 Oulu Finland
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- Inserm U 1035 33076 Bordeaux France
- Université de Bordeaux 146 rue Léo Saignat 33076 Bordeaux France
- Centre de Référence pour les Maladies Rares de la Peau Bordeaux France
- Département de Dermatologie & Dermatologie Pédiatrique CHU de Bordeaux Bordeaux France
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- Inserm U 1035 33076 Bordeaux France
- Université de Bordeaux 146 rue Léo Saignat 33076 Bordeaux France
- Centre de Référence pour les Maladies Rares de la Peau Bordeaux France
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- Inserm U 1035 33076 Bordeaux France
- Université de Bordeaux 146 rue Léo Saignat 33076 Bordeaux France
- Centre de Référence pour les Maladies Rares de la Peau Bordeaux France
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Zuliani-Alvarez L, Midwood KS. Fibrinogen-Related Proteins in Tissue Repair: How a Unique Domain with a Common Structure Controls Diverse Aspects of Wound Healing. Adv Wound Care (New Rochelle) 2015; 4:273-285. [PMID: 26005593 DOI: 10.1089/wound.2014.0599] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/14/2014] [Accepted: 10/14/2014] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Significance: Fibrinogen-related proteins (FRePs) comprise an intriguing collection of extracellular molecules, each containing a conserved fibrinogen-like globe (FBG). This group includes the eponymous fibrinogen as well as the tenascin, angiopoietin, and ficolin families. Many of these proteins are upregulated during tissue repair and exhibit diverse roles during wound healing. Recent Advances: An increasing body of evidence highlights the specific expression of a number of FRePs following tissue injury and infection. Upon induction, each FReP uses its FBG domain to mediate quite distinct effects that contribute to different stages of tissue repair, such as driving coagulation, pathogen detection, inflammation, angiogenesis, and tissue remodeling. Critical Issues: Despite a high degree of homology among FRePs, each contains unique sequences that enable their diversification of function. Comparative analysis of the structure and function of FRePs and precise mapping of regions that interact with a variety of ligands has started to reveal the underlying molecular mechanisms by which these proteins play very different roles using their common domain. Future Directions: Fibrinogen has long been used in the clinic as a synthetic matrix serving as a scaffold or a delivery system to aid tissue repair. Novel therapeutic strategies are now emerging that harness the use of other FRePs to improve wound healing outcomes. As we learn more about the underlying mechanisms by which each FReP contributes to the repair response, specific blockade, or indeed potentiation, of their function offers real potential to enable regulation of distinct processes during pathological wound healing.
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- Lorena Zuliani-Alvarez
- Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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- Nuffield Department of Orthopaedics, Rheumatology and Musculoskeletal Sciences, Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
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Tenascin-C (TNC) is highly expressed in cancer tissues. Its cellular sources are cancer and stromal cells, including fibroblasts/myofibroblasts, and also vascular cells. TNC expressed in cancer tissues dominantly contains large splice variants. Deposition of the stroma promotes the epithelial-mesenchymal transition, proliferation, and migration of cancer cells. It also facilitates the formation of cancer stroma including desmoplasia and angiogenesis. Integrin receptors that mediate the signals of TNC have also been discussed.
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Key Words
- CAF, cancer-associated fibroblasts
- ECM, extracellular matrix
- EDA, extra domain A
- EMT, epithelial-mesenchymal transition
- FAK, focal adhesion kinase
- FBG, fibrinogen-like globe
- FN, fibronectin
- FNIII, fibronectin type III-like
- HS, heparan sulfate
- ISH, in situ hybridization
- LAP, latency-associated peptide
- MMPs, matrix metalloproteinases
- OPN, osteopontin
- PDGF, platelet-derived growth factor
- RPTP, receptor protein-tyrosine phosphatase
- Stromal cell
- TGF, transforming growth factor
- TNC, tenascin-C
- VN, vitronectin
- cancer cell
- integrins
- splice variant
- tenascin-C
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- Toshimichi Yoshida
- a Department of Pathology and Matrix Biology ; Mie University Graduate School of Medicine
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A time-course analysis of mRNA expression during injury healing in human dermal injuries. Int J Legal Med 2013; 128:403-14. [DOI: 10.1007/s00414-013-0941-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/07/2013] [Accepted: 11/05/2013] [Indexed: 12/16/2022]
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Staphylococcal superantigen-like protein 8 (SSL8) binds to tenascin C and inhibits tenascin C-fibronectin interaction and cell motility of keratinocytes. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2013; 433:127-32. [PMID: 23485472 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2013.02.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/06/2013] [Accepted: 02/08/2013] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Staphylococcal superantigen-like protein (SSL), a family of exotoxins composed of 14 SSLs, exhibits no superantigenic activity despite of its structural similarity with superantigens. Several SSLs have been revealed to bind to host immune molecules such as IgA, IgG, complement and cell surface molecules expressed on immune cells, but the physiological function of SSL family has not been fully identified. In this study we attempted to isolate host target proteins of SSLs from human breast milk using SSLs-conjugated Sepharose. SSL8-conjugated Sepharose specifically recovered tenascin C (TNC), a multimodular and multifunctional extracellular matrix protein. Pull down analysis using SSL8-conjugated Sepharose and recombinant truncated fragments of TNC revealed that SSL8 interacts with fibronectin (FN) type III repeats 1-5 of TNC. The interaction of TNC with immobilized FN was attenuated, the scratch wound closure by HaCaT human keratinocytes was delayed and the inhibition of cell spreading on FN by TNC was recovered in the presence of SSL8. These findings suggest that SSL8 binds to TNC, thereby inhibits the TNC-FN interaction and motility of keratinocytes. The present study added a novel role of SSL family protein as an interrupting molecule against the function of extracellular matrix.
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The disappearance of melanocytes because of defective adhesion is one of the accepted theories to explain vitiligo. Tenascin-C is a large, extracellular matrix glycoprotein that is thought to inhibit adhesion of melanocytes to fibronectin. The current study aimed to evaluate the pattern of tenascin-C expression in vitiligenous skin compared with normal pigmented skin by means of immunohistochemistry. The study was carried out on skin biopsies from lesional and perilesional skin of 30 patients with vitiligo and on normal skin of 10 healthy volunteers. Several histopathologic changes were observed in vitiliginous skin such as keratinocyte vacuolization, a thickened basement membrane, and dermal inflammatory changes. Tenascin-C was expressed in keratinocytes of the basal epidermal layer of normal skin biopsies at a mild intensity but it did not stain the dermis, whereas vitiligenous skin showed tenascin-C expression in most cases (93.3% ), in the papillary dermis, epidermis, and in both. Diffuse epidermal expression of tenascin-C correlated with more loss of pigment and continuous staining of tenascin-C in the papillary dermis correlated with progressive forms of vitiligo. Intense tenascin-C expression was associated with a more progressive course of the disease assessed by the vitiligo disease activity score. From this study, tenascin-C is highly expressed in the dermis, epidermis, and both of vitiligo as a secondary event for the disease. Keratinocyte is a source of tenascin-C in vitiligo, and diffuse epidermal expression of tenascin-C may induce more loss of melanocytes and melanin pigment. Dermal expression of tenascin-C in the vitiligenous lesion may be linked to the disease more than epidermal expression, because this pattern is only seen in a vitiligenous lesion and it is completely absent in normal and perilesional skin.
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Szeimies RM, Torezan L, Niwa A, Valente N, Unger P, Kohl E, Schreml S, Babilas P, Karrer S, Festa-Neto C. Clinical, histopathological and immunohistochemical assessment of human skin field cancerization before and after photodynamic therapy. Br J Dermatol 2012; 167:150-9. [PMID: 22329784 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2133.2012.10887.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 82] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
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BACKGROUND The field cancerization concept in photodamaged patients suggests that the entire sun-exposed surface of the skin has an increased risk for the development of (pre)-malignant lesions, mainly epithelial tumours. Topical photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a noninvasive therapeutic method for multiple actinic keratosis (AK) with excellent outcome. OBJECTIVES To evaluate the clinical, histological and immunohistochemical changes in human skin with field cancerization after multiple sessions of PDT with methyl-aminolaevulinate (MAL). METHODS Twenty-six patients with photodamaged skin and multiple AK on the face received three consecutive sessions of MAL-PDT with red light (37 J cm(-2)), 1 month apart. Biopsies before and 3 months after the last treatment session were taken from normal-appearing skin on the field-cancerized area. Immunohistochemical stainings were performed for TP-53, procollagen-I, metalloproteinase-1 (MMP-1) and tenascin-C (Tn-C). RESULTS All 26 patients completed the study. The global score for photodamage improved considerably in all patients (P < 0·001). The AK clearance rate was 89·5% at the end of the study. Two treatment sessions were as effective as three MAL-PDT sessions. A significant decrease in atypia grade and extent of keratinocyte atypia was observed histologically (P < 0·001). Also, a significant increase in collagen deposition (P = 0·001) and improvement of solar elastosis (P = 0·002) were noticed after PDT. However, immunohistochemistry showed only a trend for decreased TP-53 expression (not significant), increased procollagen-I and MMP-1 expressions (not significant) and an increased expression of Tn-C (P = 0·024). CONCLUSIONS Clinical and histological improvement in field cancerization after multiple sessions of MAL-PDT is proven. The decrease in severity and extent of keratinocyte atypia associated with a decreased expression of TP-53 suggest a reduced carcinogenic potential of the sun-damaged area. The significant increase of new collagen deposition and the reduction of solar elastosis explain the clinical improvement of photodamaged skin.
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- R M Szeimies
- Department of Dermatology, Regensburg University Hospital, Regensburg, Germany.
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Mane DR, Kale AD, Naik VV. Immunohistochemical expression of Tenascin in embryogenesis, tumorigenesis and inflammatory oral mucosa. Arch Oral Biol 2011; 56:655-63. [PMID: 21208610 DOI: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2010.11.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/23/2010] [Revised: 11/22/2010] [Accepted: 11/29/2010] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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OBJECTIVE Tenascin is a large extracellular matrix glycoprotein that plays specific role in cell matrix interaction. This protein is mainly attracted because of its oncofetal predominance expression at epithelial-mesenchymal interaction and also been associated with inflammatory response. Thus the aim was to study the expression of Tenascin within the oral cavity in a developing tooth, normal oral mucosa, squamous cell carcinoma and inflammatory mucosa and further to compare its expression in inflammatory mucosa with that of squamous cell carcinoma. DESIGN A total numbers of 92 cases were included, with 22 being all morphological stages of developing tooth, 10 cases of normal oral mucosa, 30 cases each of inflammatory gingival hyperplasia and oral squamous cell carcinoma. The intensity and pattern of expression was assessed immunohistochemically using anti-human mouse monoclonal Tenascin antibody. RESULTS AND CONCLUSION Tenascin expression in developing tooth was seen mainly at epithelial-mesenchymal junctions, but temporally reduced at cap stage. In normal mucosa TN expression was restricted only at basement membrane zone. Inflammatory gingival hyperplasia intensity of expression was enhanced at the juxtraepithelial stroma and showed reticular pattern of expression. In oral squamous cell carcinoma, intensity of expression was seen in superficial front of the stroma and also around tumour islands with intraepithelial expression and predominantly showed fibrillar pattern of expression. Furthermore, Tenascin expression was noticed around neovascularization. Hence, there is a regulatory system in Tenascin expression and plays a vital role in embryogenesis, tumerogenesis and inflammation in remodelling the stroma for cell migration and also for healing.
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- Deepa R Mane
- Department of Oral Pathology and Microbiology, KLE VK Institute of Dental Sciences and Hospital, Nehru Nagar, Belgaum 590010, Karnataka, India.
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Maller O, Martinson H, Schedin P. Extracellular matrix composition reveals complex and dynamic stromal-epithelial interactions in the mammary gland. J Mammary Gland Biol Neoplasia 2010; 15:301-18. [PMID: 20811805 DOI: 10.1007/s10911-010-9189-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2010] [Accepted: 08/16/2010] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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The mammary gland is an excellent model system to study the interplay between stroma and epithelial cells because of the gland's unique postnatal development and its distinct functional states. This review focuses on the contribution of the extracellular matrix (ECM) to stromal-epithelial interactions in the mammary gland. We describe how ECM physical properties, protein composition, and proteolytic state impact mammary gland architecture as well as provide instructive cues that influence the function of mammary epithelial cells during pubertal gland development and throughout adulthood. Further, based on recent proteomic analyses of mammary ECM, we describe known mammary ECM proteins and their potential functions, as well as describe several ECM proteins not previously recognized in this organ. ECM proteins are discussed in the context of the morphologically-distinct stromal subcompartments: the basal lamina, the intra- and interlobular stroma, and the fibrous connective tissue. Future studies aimed at in-depth qualitative and quantitative characterization of mammary ECM within these various subcompartments is required to better elucidate the function of ECM in normal as well as in pathological breast tissue.
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- Ori Maller
- Department of Medicine, Division of Medical Oncology, University of Colorado-Denver, 12801 E 17th Ave., Aurora, CO 80045, USA
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The extracellular matrix molecule tenascin-C is highly expressed during embryonic development, tissue repair and in pathological situations such as chronic inflammation and cancer. Tenascin-C interacts with several other extracellular matrix molecules and cell-surface receptors, thus affecting tissue architecture, tissue resilience and cell responses. Tenascin-C modulates cell migration, proliferation and cellular signaling through induction of pro-inflammatory cytokines and oncogenic signaling molecules amongst other mechanisms. Given the causal role of inflammation in cancer progression, common mechanisms might be controlled by tenascin-C during both events. Drugs targeting the expression or function of tenascin-C or the tenascin-C protein itself are currently being developed and some drugs have already reached advanced clinical trials. This generates hope that increased knowledge about tenascin-C will further improve management of diseases with high tenascin-C expression such as chronic inflammation, heart failure, artheriosclerosis and cancer.
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Midwood KS, Orend G. The role of tenascin-C in tissue injury and tumorigenesis. J Cell Commun Signal 2009; 3:287-310. [PMID: 19838819 PMCID: PMC2778592 DOI: 10.1007/s12079-009-0075-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 312] [Impact Index Per Article: 20.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/28/2009] [Accepted: 09/30/2009] [Indexed: 01/14/2023] Open
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The extracellular matrix molecule tenascin-C is highly expressed during embryonic development, tissue repair and in pathological situations such as chronic inflammation and cancer. Tenascin-C interacts with several other extracellular matrix molecules and cell-surface receptors, thus affecting tissue architecture, tissue resilience and cell responses. Tenascin-C modulates cell migration, proliferation and cellular signaling through induction of pro-inflammatory cytokines and oncogenic signaling molecules amongst other mechanisms. Given the causal role of inflammation in cancer progression, common mechanisms might be controlled by tenascin-C during both events. Drugs targeting the expression or function of tenascin-C or the tenascin-C protein itself are currently being developed and some drugs have already reached advanced clinical trials. This generates hope that increased knowledge about tenascin-C will further improve management of diseases with high tenascin-C expression such as chronic inflammation, heart failure, artheriosclerosis and cancer.
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- Kim S. Midwood
- Kennedy Institute of Rheumatology Division, Faculty of Medicine, Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, 65 Aspenlea Road, Hammersmith, London, W6 8LH UK
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- Inserm U682, Strasbourg, 67200 France
- University of Strasbourg, UMR-S682, Strasbourg, 67081 France
- Department of Molecular Biology, CHRU Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 67200 France
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Ueda K, Shimizu O, Oka S, Saito M, Hide M, Matsumoto M. Distribution of tenascin-C, fibronectin and collagen types III and IV during regeneration of rat submandibular gland. Int J Oral Maxillofac Surg 2008; 38:79-84. [PMID: 19097859 DOI: 10.1016/j.ijom.2008.11.004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2007] [Revised: 06/24/2008] [Accepted: 11/03/2008] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The aim of this study was to determine the localization of tenascin-C, fibronectin and collagen types III and IV during regeneration of the rat submandibular gland. After 7 days' obstruction, the regenerating glands were collected at days 0, 1, 3, 5, 7, 11 and 14 after duct release to study regeneration. Immunohistochemical staining revealed that tenascin-C was strongly expressed in the epithelial cells of duct-acinar structures at days 0-3, and down-regulated in its expression from day 5 to 11, though weak expression was detected in the intercalated duct and acinar cells of the normal gland. Strong labeling of fibronectin was detected around duct-acinar structures during days 0-3 of regeneration. Type IV collagen was expressed strongly in the thickened basement membrane of acinar cells and duct-acinar structures during days 0-3, but weakly around large ducts, though type III collagen was expressed at consistent levels. These findings suggest that tenascin-C and fibronectin affect only the duct-acinar structures, and type IV but not type III collagen is involved in the regeneration of acinar cells.
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- K Ueda
- Department of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, Nihon University School of Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan
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Yamazaki Y, Sejima H, Yuguchi M, Shinozuka K, Isokawa K. Cellular origin of microfibrils explored by monensin-induced perturbation of secretory activity in embryonic primary cultures. J Oral Sci 2008; 49:107-14. [PMID: 17634722 DOI: 10.2334/josnusd.49.107] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/01/2022]
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Fibrillin is a primary component of elastin-associated microfibrils. Since microfibrils are distributed rather ubiquitously in embryonic tissues, attention has focused on the types of cells responsible for producing fibrillin. To clarify this issue, we employed monensin-induced perturbation of secretory activity in embryonic primary cultures, as this would allow examination of both the secreted protein and the formation of extracellular fibrils in the same culture. Micromasses of avian limb bud mesoderm, its ectodermal covering and several explants from other sources were cultured in the presence and absence of monensin, and evaluated immunohistochemically using antibodies against fibrillin and cell lineage markers. The results indicated that monensin perturbation induced intracellular accumulation of fibrillin and prevented the formation of microfibrils. It was shown specifically that not only mesodermally derived fibrogenic cells and myogenic cells of skeletal and smooth muscle cell lineage, but also epithelial-type cells such as endothelial and ectodermal cells, are producers of fibrillin. This dual cellular origin of fibrillin at the ectomesenchymal interface is considered significant for understanding the formation and remodeling of microfibrils originating from the basal lamina.
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- Yosuke Yamazaki
- Department of Anatomy, Nihon University School of Dentistry, Tokyo, Japan
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Yano S, Banno T, Walsh R, Blumenberg M. Transcriptional responses of human epidermal keratinocytes to cytokine interleukin-1. J Cell Physiol 2007; 214:1-13. [PMID: 17941080 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.21300] [Citation(s) in RCA: 86] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Interleukin-1 is a proinflammatory and immunomodulatory cytokine that plays a crucial role in inflammatory diseases of the skin, including bacterial infections, bullous diseases, UV damage, and especially psoriasis. To characterize the molecular effects of IL-1 in epidermis, we defined the transcriptional changes in human epidermal keratinocytes 1, 4, 24, and 48 h after treatment with IL-1alpha. IL-1 significantly regulated 388 genes, including genes associated with proteolysis, adhesion, signal transduction, proliferation, and epidermal differentiation. IL-1 induces many genes that have antimicrobial function. Secreted cytokines, chemokines, growth factors, and their receptors are the prominent targets of IL-1 regulation, including IL-8, IL-19, elafin, C3, and S100A proteins, which implicate IL-1 in the pathogenesis of inflammatory diseases. IL-1 induced not only proliferation-associated genes but also differentiation marker genes such as transglutaminase-1 and involucrin, which suggests that IL-1 plays an important role in the aberrant proliferation and differentiation seen in psoriasis. Correlation of IL-1 regulated genes with the TNFalpha and IFNgamma regulated ones showed more similarities between IL-1 and TNFalpha than IL-1 and IFNgamma, whereas Oncostatin-M (OsM) affected a largely unrelated set of genes. IL-1 regulates many genes previously shown to be specifically over-expressed in psoriasis. In summary, IL-1 regulates a characteristic set of genes that define its specific contribution to inflammation and aberrant differentiation in skin diseases.
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- Shoichiro Yano
- Department of Dermatology, NYU School of Medicine, New York 10016, USA
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Adám B, Tóth L, Pásti G, Balázs M, Adány R. An unexpected inverse correlation between soluble epidermal growth factor receptor and interleukin-6 in metastatic malignant melanoma patients. Melanoma Res 2006; 16:385-91. [PMID: 17013087 DOI: 10.1097/01.cmr.0000205022.25397.86] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/24/2022]
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The exact role of the soluble form of epidermal growth factor receptor (sEGF-R) in melanoma disease remains to be determined. We focused this study on the detection of circulating levels of sEGF-R in metastatic malignant melanoma patients and on the possible relationship between sEGF-R and clinicobiological parameters including circulating interleukin-6 (IL-6) and survival. sEGF-R and IL-6 levels were determined using a highly sensitive enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay in serum from 75 metastatic malignant melanoma patients and 30 healthy controls. In our patients, median sEGF-R level was significantly elevated (P < 0.0001) compared with that of healthy controls (173.4 vs. 91.9 fm/ml). Age or sex was not associated with sEGF-R levels. Regarding tumor burden, in contrary to the detected IL-6 levels, we found that median sEGF-R levels were significantly (P = 0.045) lower in patients with high tumor burden (163 fm/ml) than in those with low tumor burden (193.8 fm/ml). An inverse correlation between IL-6 levels and sEGF-R was observed (r =-0.33; P = 0.040). No relationship between sEGF-R and time to progression or overall survival was observed while circulating IL-6 was found as a predictive factor of survival. Our results showed that sEGF-R level was elevated in metastatic malignant melanoma patients but not related to time to progression or survival and demonstrated an inverse correlation between sEGF-R and IL-6 levels. These findings imply a better understanding of EGF-R and IL-6 cross-talk function in melanoma.
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- Balázs Adám
- Department of Preventive Medicine, School of Public Health, Medical and Health Science Center, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary
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Marionnet C, Pierrard C, Vioux-Chagnoleau C, Sok J, Asselineau D, Bernerd F. Interactions between fibroblasts and keratinocytes in morphogenesis of dermal epidermal junction in a model of reconstructed skin. J Invest Dermatol 2006; 126:971-9. [PMID: 16528360 DOI: 10.1038/sj.jid.5700230] [Citation(s) in RCA: 72] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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De novo dermal epidermal junction morphogenesis was studied in a skin model including dermal fibroblasts and epidermal keratinocytes. Sequential gene expression, protein deposition, and localization of basement membrane zone components were studied during 15 days. The morphogenesis of dermal epidermal junction is characterized by an implementation of the different components and then a subsequent plateau phase occurring at day 11. Three groups of genes were identified depending on cellular origin and expression profile: 1/genes of fibroblastic origin (col I alpha1, col III alpha1, nidogen, and fibrillin 1); 2/genes expressed in fibroblasts and keratinocytes with symmetrical expression pattern between both cell types (col IV alpha1, col VII alpha1, and tenascin C); 3/laminin beta3 only expressed in keratinocytes. Use of modified organotypic models excluding one cell type revealed a tight interplay between fibroblasts and keratinocytes for synthesis and localization of the components of dermal epidermal junction. Keratinocytes downregulated mRNA and proteins of fibroblastic origin, upregulated col VII in fibroblasts and were absolutely required for dermal-epidermal junction localization of fibroblastic proteins. Fibroblasts downregulated mRNA of keratinocytes and were needed for extracellular secretion and correct localization of type VII collagen and laminin 5.
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- Claire Marionnet
- L'Oréal Recherche, Centre de Recherche C. Zviak, 90 rue du général Roguet, 92583 Clichy Cedex, France
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Ogawa K, Ito M, Takeuchi K, Nakada A, Heishi M, Suto H, Mitsuishi K, Sugita Y, Ogawa H, Ra C. Tenascin-C is upregulated in the skin lesions of patients with atopic dermatitis. J Dermatol Sci 2005; 40:35-41. [PMID: 16043328 DOI: 10.1016/j.jdermsci.2005.06.001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/24/2004] [Revised: 05/28/2005] [Accepted: 06/09/2005] [Indexed: 12/22/2022]
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BACKGROUND Tenascin-C is a large, hexameric extracellular matrix glycoprotein that is expressed during embryogenesis, carcinogenesis and wound healing. In normal adult human skin the expression level of tenascin-C is low, but levels are elevated in skin tumors and rise significantly in the dermal compartment during wound healing. Although the expression of tenascin-C could be upregulated by inflammatory cytokines, the role of tenascin-C in atopic dermatitis (AD) is still unclear. OBJECTIVE To identify genes that plays a role in AD. METHODS We screened for differentially expressed genes in lesional and non-lesional skin of AD patients using DNA microarray. Then we monitored with quantitative PCR the expression of the novel disease related genes in human keratinocytes or pinnae from NC/Nga mice. RESULTS We found that tenascin-C gene expression was expressed at higher levels in lesional skin compared to non-lesional skin of the patients, whereas it was not upregulated in the skin of psoriatic patients or healthy controls. In human cultured keratinocytes, tenascin-C was markedly upregulated by IL-4 and IL-13, and moderately upregulated by IFN-gamma. Tenascin-C expression was also upregulated in the AD-like skin lesions induced in NC/Nga mice ears by intradermal injection of mite antigen, and this upregulation was inhibited by prednisolone. CONCLUSION These results suggest that upregulation of the tenascin-C expression is specific to AD lesions, and that tenascin-C may therefore play a critical role in regulating the underlining inflammatory processes, which are involved in the pathology of AD.
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- Kaoru Ogawa
- Genox Research Inc., Ibaraki, Laboratory of Seeds Finding Technology, Eisai Co. Ltd., 5-1-3 Tokodai, Tsukuba-shi, Ibaraki 300-2635, Japan.
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Lan L, Hayes CS, Laury-Kleintop L, Gilmour SK. Suprabasal induction of ornithine decarboxylase in adult mouse skin is sufficient to activate keratinocytes. J Invest Dermatol 2005; 124:602-14. [PMID: 15737202 DOI: 10.1111/j.0022-202x.2005.23620.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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To study the effects of de novo induction of ornithine decarboxylase (ODC) activity in adult, quiescent skin, we generated transgenic mice in which the suprabasal expression of an inducible form of the ODC protein fused to a modified estrogen receptor ligand-binding domain (ODCER) is driven by an involucrin promoter. After topical treatment with the inducing agent 4-hydroxytamoxifen (4OHT), ODC activity and putrescine levels were dramatically increased in the epidermis but not in the dermis of transgenic mice. 4OHT treatment stimulated both proliferation as measured by bromodeoxyuridine incorporation in basal epidermal cells and differentiation shown by increased expression of differentiation markers. Furthermore, induction of ODC activity did not rescue primary epidermal keratinocyte cultures isolated from ODCER2 mice from a calcium-triggered DNA synthesis block, as measured by [3H]thymidine incorporation. In vivo induction of epidermal ODC enzyme activity significantly stimulated the vascularization of ODCER transgenic skin. Increased expression of interleukin-1beta and keratin 6, markers of keratinocyte activation seen in wound healing, was also observed in 4OHT-treated transgenic skin. These results suggest that de novo suprabasal induction of ODC activity in adult mouse skin activates keratinocytes and stimulates vascularization in the dermal layer in a manner similar to skin undergoing wound healing.
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- Li Lan
- Lankenau Institute for Medical Research, Wynnewood, Pennsylvania, USA
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Zweers MC, Schalkwijk J, van Kuppevelt TH, van Vlijmen-Willems IM, Bergers M, Lethias C, Lamme EN. Transplantation of reconstructed human skin on nude mice: a model system to study expression of human tenascin-X and elastic fiber components. Cell Tissue Res 2004; 319:279-87. [PMID: 15558324 DOI: 10.1007/s00441-004-1011-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2004] [Accepted: 09/27/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Tenascin-X is a large extracellular matrix protein that is widely expressed in connective tissues during development and in the adult. Genetically determined deficiency of tenascin-X causes the connective tissue disease Ehlers-Danlos syndrome. These patients show reduced collagen density and fragmentation of elastic fibers in their skin. In vitro studies on the role of tenascin-X in elastic fiber biology are hampered because monolayers of fibroblasts do not deposit tenascin-X and elastic fibers into the extracellular matrix. Here, we applied an organotypic culture model of fibroblasts and keratinocytes to address this issue. We investigated the deposition of tenascin-X and elastin into skin-equivalent in vitro and also in vivo after transplantation onto immunodeficient mice. Whereas tenascin-C and fibrillin-1 were readily expressed in the skin-equivalents before transplantation, tenascin-X and elastin were not present. Three weeks post-grafting, a network of elastin was observed that coincided with the appearance of tenascin-X. At the ultrastructural level, microfibrils were observed, some of which were associated with elastin. Transplanted skin-equivalents containing tenascin-X-deficient fibroblasts showed deposition of immunoreactive elastin in similar quantities and distribution as those containing control fibroblasts. This suggests that tenascin-X is important for the stability and maintenance of established elastin fibers, rather than for the initial phase of elastogenesis. Thus, the transplantation of reconstructed skin on nude mice allows the study of tenascin-X and elastin expression and could be used as a model system to study the potential role of tenascin-X in matrix assembly and stability.
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- Manon C Zweers
- Department of Dermatology, University Medical Centre Nijmegen, Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Mukaratirwa S, de Witte E, van Ederen AM, Nederbragt H. Tenascin expression in relation to stromal tumour cells in canine gastrointestinal epithelial tumours. J Comp Pathol 2003; 129:137-46. [PMID: 12921719 DOI: 10.1016/s0021-9975(03)00021-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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The expression of tenascin, alpha-smooth muscle actin (alpha-SMA), desmin and vimentin was investigated immunohistochemically in the stroma of normal canine stomach, small intestine and colon, and in 30 epithelial tumours of the canine stomach, small intestine or colon. In addition, "co-localization" of tenascin and alpha-SMA was investigated by double immunohistochemistry. Tenascin was absent in the normal gastric mucosa but present in the normal intestine, with a gradual increase in immunolabelling intensity from the cryptal glands to the surface epithelium. Tenascin expression was greater in all adenomas and carcinomas than in normal tissues. Two different patterns of tenascin expression were observed in all carcinomas, irrespective of their site. In well-differentiated tumour regions of both gastric and intestinal tumours, a fibrillary sub-glandular expression was observed; in poorly differentiated tumour regions, however, the expression pattern was diffuse. Incomplete invasion of the muscularis mucosae was accompanied by thickening and increased tenascin expression. In normal stomach and intestines, alpha-SMA and desmin were demonstrated in pericryptal myofibroblasts and smooth muscle cells of the muscle layers. In colonic adenomas and gastric and intestinal carcinomas, alpha-SMA was demonstrated in all stromal cells surrounding tumour cells. In contrast to alpha-SMA labelling, desmin labelling was negative in tumour stromal cells (in both gastric and intestinal tumours), except in tumour regions close to the muscularis mucosae. This suggested that myofibroblasts in gastric and intestinal tumours originated from pre-existing fibroblasts, except in tumour regions close to the muscularis mucosae, where the myofibroblasts seemed to originate from smooth muscle cells of the muscularis mucosae. There was a strong co-localization of tenascin and alpha-SMA-expressing myofibroblasts, suggesting that myofibroblasts are responsible for tenascin secretion.
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- S Mukaratirwa
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, PO Box 80158, Yalelan 1, 3508 TD Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Mukaratirwa S, Nederbragt H. Tenascin and proteoglycans: the role of tenascin and proteoglycans in canine tumours. Res Vet Sci 2002; 73:1-8. [PMID: 12208101 DOI: 10.1016/s0034-5288(02)00066-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Tenascin is a high molecular weight, extracellular matrix glycoprotein, subject to complex spatial and temporal patterns of expression during embryogenesis, wound healing and neoplastic processes. Proteoglycans are complex macromolecules, containing one or more glycosaminoglycans attached to a core protein, which are involved in cell-cell and cell-matrix interaction. Altered expression of both tenascin and proteoglycans has been found in tumours and expression of these two extracellular matrix proteins seems to be modulated in the same way in human and canine tumours. The quantitative and qualitative changes in tenascin and proteoglycan composition may significantly affect behaviour of tumour cells. While tenascin and proteoglycans have many biological functions likely to influence tumour development and progression, their exact role in regulation of tumour cell-cell interaction, proliferation, invasion and metastasis remains to be established. This review focuses on the role of tenascin and proteoglycans in neoplasia and recent developments in canine tumours.
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- S Mukaratirwa
- Department of Pathology, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.158, 3508 TD, Utrecht, The Netherlands.
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Theilig C, Bernd A, Leyhausen G, Kaufmann R, Geurtsen W. Effects of mechanical force on primary human fibroblasts derived from the gingiva and the periodontal ligament. J Dent Res 2001; 80:1777-80. [PMID: 11669493 DOI: 10.1177/00220345010800081901] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Previous experiments have shown that mechanical stress may alter the interactions between cells and extracellular matrix (ECM). The purpose of our study was to investigate the effects of mechanical load on metabolism and ECM expression of primary human periodontal cells. The influence of gravitational force on proliferation, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release, and tenascin expression of gingival (HGF) and periodontal ligament fibroblasts (HPDL), as well as their adhesion to various extracellular matrix (ECM) components, was determined. Cells were centrifuged in microplates or flat tubes for 16 hrs at 217 g. Neither an enhanced release of LDH nor an alteration of cell proliferation could be detected after centrifugation. However, the attachment of loaded gingival and periodontal ligament fibroblasts to all tested ECM components significantly decreased in comparison with controls (Wilcoxon-Mann-Whitney test; HGF, p < 0.05; HPDL, p < 0.01). Tenascin expression of mechanically stressed fibroblasts significantly increased in comparison with controls (p < 0.01).
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- C Theilig
- Department of Conservative Dentistry and Periodontology, Medical University Hannover, Germany
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Seyger MM, van den Hoogen FH, van Vlijmen-Willems IM, van de Kerkhof PC, de Jong EM. Localized and systemic scleroderma show different histological responses to methotrexate therapy. J Pathol 2001; 193:511-6. [PMID: 11276011 DOI: 10.1002/1096-9896(2000)9999:9999<::aid-path779>3.0.co;2-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Although morphoea (localized scleroderma) and systemic sclerosis are distinct disease entities, the skin lesions show identical histological characteristics and both diseases respond favourably to low-dose treatment with methotrexate (MTX). The aim of this study was to find out whether MTX treatment induces different histological response patterns in these two diseases. In seven patients with morphoea and eight with systemic sclerosis, skin biopsies were taken before and after 24 weeks of treatment with low-dose MTX. In the centre and active margin of morphoea lesions, a significant reduction in tenascin staining was seen after 24 weeks of treatment, in contrast to systemic sclerosis. The numbers of mast cells decreased in the active margin of morphoea lesions, whereas in systemic sclerosis no significant change was seen after MTX therapy. Epidermal proliferation and staining of heparan sulphate proteoglycans showed no changes. Although skin lesions from both diseases respond clinically to treatment with MTX, systemic sclerosis shows no change in the immunohistochemical parameters investigated, whereas morphoea does. This difference in dynamic pattern suggests that the apparently similar lesions in localized and systemic sclerosis are not identical.
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- M M Seyger
- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Nijmegen, P.O. Box 9101, 6500 HB Nijmegen, The Netherlands.
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Kahn HJ, Fekete E, From L. Tenascin differentiates dermatofibroma from dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans: comparison with CD34 and factor XIIIa. Hum Pathol 2001; 32:50-6. [PMID: 11172295 DOI: 10.1053/hupa.2001.21137] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/11/2022]
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Differentiation of dermatofibroma (DF) from dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans (DFSP) can be difficult. CD34 and Factor XIIIa have been used to differentiate DF from DFSP. However, there is overlap and lack of specificity of their expression. Tenascin is an extracellular matrix glycoprotein that is involved in embryogenesis, carcinogenesis, and wound healing. The aim of the study was to assess the role of tenascin in DF and DFSP and compare the results with those obtained with CD34 and Factor XIIIa. Immunohistochemical staining was performed on 20 cases each of DFSP and DF, using antibodies to tenascin, CD34 and Factor XIIIa, and the streptavidin biotin technique. Positivity for all 3 antibodies was assessed within the tumors. Tenascin expression was also assessed at the dermal-epidermal junction. Strong tenascin positivity was noted at the dermal-epidermal junction overlying the lesion in 20 of 20 cases of DF (100%) and was negative over the lesion in 20 of 20 cases DFSP (100%). Tenascin was noted within the lesion of 80% of both DF and DFSP (16/20 cases). CD34 was strongly expressed in 16 of 20 (80%) DFSP and 5 of 20 (25%) DF, whereas Factor XIIIa was strongly expressed in 19 of 20 (95%) DF and 3 of 15 (15%) DFSP. Although CD34 was expressed in 80% DFSP and Factor XIIIa in 95% of DF, there was overlap in their expression in the 2 types of tumors. The increased expression of tenascin at the dermal-epidermal junction overlying the lesion in DF but not in DFSP, differentiated these 2 tumors. In contrast, tenascin expression within the lesion did not differentiate DF from DFSP.
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- H J Kahn
- Department of Pathology, Sunnybrook & Women's College Health Science Center, Women's College Campus, Toronto, Canada
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Häkkinen L, Hildebrand HC, Berndt A, Kosmehl H, Larjava H. Immunolocalization of tenascin-C, alpha9 integrin subunit, and alphavbeta6 integrin during wound healing in human oral mucosa. J Histochem Cytochem 2000; 48:985-98. [PMID: 10858276 DOI: 10.1177/002215540004800712] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023] Open
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Tenascin-C (TN-C) and its isoforms are multidomain extracellular matrix (ECM) proteins that are believed to be involved in the regulation of stromal-epithelial interactions. Some of the interactions between TN-C and cells are mediated by integrins. In this study we analyzed the expression of TN-C and its large molecular weight splice isoform (TN-C(L)) and the putative TN-C-binding alpha9 and alphavbeta6 integrins during human wound repair. In 3-day-old oral mucosal wounds, immunoreactivity for alpha9 integrin localized abundantly at the migrating basal wound epithelial cells. TN-C and TN-C(L) were localized in the matrix between and underneath alpha9-expressing epithelial cells. In parallel with gradual downregulation of alpha9 integrin immunoreactivity in 7-day and older wounds, the expression of alphavbeta6 integrin was temporarily induced. Integrin alphavbeta6 co-localized in the same area as TN-C and TN-C(L) immunoreactivity at the cell-cell contacts of the basal and suprabasal cell layers of the wound epithelium. During granulation tissue formation and reorganization from 7 to 28 days after wounding, TN-C and TN-C(L) were abundantly localized in the granulation tissue. The findings show that TN-C(L) is expressed under the migrating epithelial front and in the granulation tissue during matrix deposition in wound repair. Preferential localization of alpha9 integrin in migrating epithelial cells and of alphavbeta6 integrin in epithelium after wound closure suggests different functions for these integrins in wound repair.
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- L Häkkinen
- University of British Columbia, Faculty of Dentistry, Department of Oral Biological and Medical Sciences, Vancouver, BC, Canada.
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Leivo T, Kiistala U, Vesterinen M, Owaribe K, Burgeson RE, Virtanen I, Oikarinen A. Re-epithelialization rate and protein expression in the suction-induced wound model: comparison between intact blisters, open wounds and calcipotriol-pretreated open wounds. Br J Dermatol 2000; 142:991-1002. [PMID: 10809861 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.2000.03484.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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We have investigated re-epithelialization following induction of suction blisters in humans in intact blisters, open wounds, i.e. blister roofs removed immediately after blister induction, and calcipotriol-pretreated open wounds. Intact blisters simulate blister healing in bullous disease, while open wounds simulate re-epithelialization during wound healing. Re-epithelialization was clearly faster in open wounds than in intact blisters, and was not affected by calcipotriol pretreatment. Bullous pemphigoid antigen 2 (BP180), bullous pemphigoid antigen 1 (BP230), plectin/hemidesmosomal 1 protein (HD1), laminin 5, laminin alpha5, laminin beta1, type VII collagen, tenascin-C, beta4, alphavbeta5, alpha5 and alpha9 integrins were studied in intact blisters and open wounds by immunohistochemistry. Hemidesmosomal plaque proteins BP230 and plectin/HD1, which connect the keratin cytoskeleton to the hemidesmosome, appeared earlier at the leading edge in intact blisters than in open wounds. Band-like immunostaining in the basement membrane for laminin 5, alpha5 and beta1 chains was continuous in blister bases, but partially discontinuous in open wound bases. The other antigens studied showed similar expression in intact blisters and open wounds. BP180, BP230, plectin/HD1, beta4 integrin, laminin 5 and tenascin-C expression were further studied in calcipotriol-pretreated open wounds. Calcipotriol did not affect the expression of these antigens. The immunohistochemical results suggest that the keratin cytoskeleton is linked to the basal plasma membrane of migrating basal cells via BP230 and plectin/HD1 earlier in the more slowly re-epithelializing blisters than in open wounds. An intact laminin sheath may inhibit keratinocyte migration in intact blisters.
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- T Leivo
- Department of Anatomy, Institute of Biomedicine, PO Box 9, FIN-00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
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Pääkkö P, Kaarteenaho-Wiik R, Pöllänen R, Soini Y. Tenascin mRNA expression at the foci of recent injury in usual interstitial pneumonia. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2000; 161:967-72. [PMID: 10712350 DOI: 10.1164/ajrccm.161.3.9809115] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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To elucidate which cells are synthesizing tenascin in usual interstitial pneumonia (UIP) we have analyzed thoracoscopic or open lung biopsies from 30 patients with UIP by mRNA in situ hybridization, using (35)S-labeled tenascin RNA probes. The phenotype of the cells expressing tenascin mRNA was confirmed by immunohistochemical stainings of serial sections with antibodies against alpha-smooth muscle actin and human cytokeratin. The results demonstrate that tenascin is expressed at the foci of recent lesions consisting of intralumenal or incorporating loose fibrotic buds. The cells expressing tenascin mRNA were located in and underneath the newly formed epithelium. Immunohistochemical stainings showed that the cells in the newly formed epithelium were strongly cytokeratin positive, and thus evidently regenerating type 2 pneumocytes, while the cells underneath the newly formed epithelium were alpha-smooth muscle actin positive and apparently myofibroblasts. Tenascin mRNA expression was clearly stronger and more frequent in myofibroblasts than in type 2 pneumocytes, however. Weak tenascin mRNA expression was also found in metaplastic bronchiolar-type epithelium and alveolar macrophages. Our results are thus in good agreement with the previous studies showing that tenascin is actively synthesized at the early fibrotic lesions in UIP. Furthermore, results demonstrate that the interaction between the epithelium and the underlying connective tissue plays a significant role in tenascin synthesis and that myofibroblasts are mainly responsible for its synthesis in fibroblastic foci of UIP.
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- P Pääkkö
- Department of Pathology, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland.
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Grässel S, Unsöld C, Schäcke H, Bruckner-Tuderman L, Bruckner P. Collagen XVI is expressed by human dermal fibroblasts and keratinocytes and is associated with the microfibrillar apparatus in the upper papillary dermis. Matrix Biol 1999; 18:309-17. [PMID: 10429949 DOI: 10.1016/s0945-053x(99)00019-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Indirect immunofluorescence staining of normal skin with affinity-purified antibodies revealed a conspicuous presence of collagen XVI at the dermo-epidermal interface where it occurs in close vicinity to collagen VII. In addition, the protein co-localizes with fibrillin 1 at the cutaneous basement membrane zone and the adjacent papillary dermis, but not in deeper layers of the dermis. Both fibronectin and collagen XVI are distributed throughout smooth muscles of hair follicles but do not co-localize. These data suggest, therefore, that collagen XVI contributes to the structural integrity of the dermo-epidermal junction zone by interacting with components of the anchoring complexes and the microfibrillar apparatus. A strong immunofluorescence signal associated with the extracellular matrix of individual cells was observed for keratinocytes or fibroblasts in monolayer cultures. Therefore, both cell types are likely sources of the protein also in situ. The rate of expression of collagen XVI mRNA in keratinocytes is about half of that in normal human skin fibroblasts. In both cell types, TGF-beta2 treatment results in an up-regulation of the collagen XVI-mRNA by approximately 50%. In keratinocytes, synthesis of collagen XVI protein and deposition to the cell layer and the extracellular matrix is stimulated fivefold and twofold, respectively. Since TGF-beta2 also upregulates the biosynthesis of other matrix macromolecules in the subepidermal zone the factor is likely to contribute to the stabilization of matrix zones near basement membranes in healing wounds.
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- S Grässel
- Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität, Institut für Physiologische Chemie und Pathobiochemie, Münster, Germany.
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Filsell W, Rudman S, Jenkins G, Green MR. Coordinate upregulation of tenascin C expression with degree of photodamage in human skin. Br J Dermatol 1999; 140:592-9. [PMID: 10233307 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2133.1999.02756.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Tenascin C is a large extracellular matrix glycoprotein involved in morphogenesis and wound healing. The distribution and expression levels of tenascin were examined in photodamaged skin to investigate the hypothesis that photoaged skin displays characteristics of wound repair. In situ hybridization and semiquantitative immunohistochemistry were performed on paired skin biopsies from patients with varying levels of photodamage, using monoclonal antibodies and cRNA probes for tenascin and its large isoform. In sun-protected skin, tenascin protein was distributed adjacent to the dermoepidermal junction, usually sparsely and discontinuously; tenascin mRNA was detected in dermal fibroblasts and some keratinocytes. In photodamaged skin, tenascin protein was increased in proportion to the clinical level of photodamage (analysis of variance: P < 0.0001, n = 29). With increased photodamage, tenascin protein expression became continuous along the dermoepidermal junction, extending deeper into and sometimes throughout the papillary dermis; tenascin mRNA was detected throughout the epidermis. Large tenascin isoform protein and mRNA distribution mirrored that of pantenascin, suggesting that it may be the predominant species in photodamaged skin. There was no correlation between tenascin expression levels and age or sex, and no seasonal variation was noted. The results indicate that photodamaged skin demonstrates tenascin increases consistent with an early wound healing response. However, tenascin increases in photodamage appear to be permanent and may therefore interfere with effective repair of ultraviolet-induced damage. In conclusion, this study has shown that dermal tenascin expression increases in proportion to the degree of photodamage. In normal skin, the temporal and spatial patterns of tenascin expression during morphogenesis and tissue remodelling are crucial to their correct progression. In photoageing, the 'normal' control of tenascin expression seems to be abrogated.
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- W Filsell
- Biosciences Group, Unilever Research, Colworth House, Sharnbrook, Bedford MK44 1LQ, U.K.
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Andriessen MP, Niessen FB, Van de Kerkhof PC, Schalkwijk J. Hypertrophic scarring is associated with epidermal abnormalities: an immunohistochemical study. J Pathol 1998; 186:192-200. [PMID: 9924436 DOI: 10.1002/(sici)1096-9896(1998100)186:2<192::aid-path163>3.0.co;2-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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The role of epidermal keratinocytes in the early phases of normal unimpaired wound healing has been studied extensively. However, little is known about the cell biological processes in the epidermis and the basal membrane zone during the later phases of dermal matrix formation and remodelling of the scar tissue. This study investigated epidermal growth and differentiation and maturation of the basal membrane zone. Biopsies were taken from (clinically) hypertrophic and non-hypertrophic scars at 3 and 12 months after a breast-reduction operation. Tissues were analysed using immunohistochemical techniques. The data showed that epidermal abnormalities with respect to differentiation persist up to 3 months, as witnessed by the expression of cytokeratin 16. Remarkably, hypertrophic scars that remained hypertrophic throughout the period of analysis (up to 12 months) showed significantly more cytokeratin 16 expression at 3 months, when compared either with normal scars or with hypertrophic scars that became normal after 12 months. Staining for Ki-67 antigen, a marker for cell proliferation, revealed an increase in basal keratinocyte proliferation rate in 3-month-old hypertrophic scars compared with non-hypertrophic scars. After 12 months, this difference had disappeared completely and the number of cycling basal cells had returned to normal values. Three-month-old hypertrophic scars showed more acanthosis than non-hypertrophic scars of the same age, irrespective of whether they remained hypertrophic or became normal scars. After 12 months, this difference was no longer present. Staining for various heparan sulphate proteoglycan epitopes revealed that restoration of the basal membrane was incomplete at 3 months, but was complete at 12 months with respect to this component. No differences in the expression of several components of the basal membrane zone (heparan sulphate proteoglycan, laminin, tenascin) were noted between hypertrophic and non-hypertrophic scars. These data show that in the early phase of hypertrophic scarring, epidermal abnormalities are found compared with normal wound healing. In addition, early (3 months) epidermal abnormalities are associated with the clinical outcome at 12 months. These findings raise the possibility that the epidermal compartment is involved in the pathogenic process.
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- M P Andriessen
- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Latijnhouwers MA, Pfundt R, de Jongh GJ, Schalkwijk J. Tenascin-C expression in human epidermal keratinocytes is regulated by inflammatory cytokines and a stress response pathway. Matrix Biol 1998; 17:305-16. [PMID: 9749946 DOI: 10.1016/s0945-053x(98)90083-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/08/2023]
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Recently we showed that human epidermal keratinocytes express the extracellular matrix protein tenascin-C (TN-C) during wound healing, but not in normal adult skin. To gain further insight into the regulation of epidermal TN-C expression, we tested the effect of various stimuli on TN-C expression by cultured keratinocytes. Our results indicate that IL-4 is a very strong inducer of TN-C protein and mRNA expression in normal keratinocytes. Furthermore, TNFalpha and IFNgamma moderately increased TN-C expression. No other cytokines and growth factors that we tested, including various factors that stimulate TN-C expression in mesenchymal cells, significantly affected TN-C secretion by cultured keratinocytes. The regulation of TN-C expression in keratinocytes is distinct from that of fibronectin, since IL-4 and IFNgamma did not affect fibronectin expression in our experiments, and TNFalpha only slightly increased fibronectin levels. To investigate the role of cellular stress response pathways that can be activated by TNFalpha in the regulation of TN-C expression, we tested the effect of different inhibitors and an activator of these intracellular signalling cascades. The results show that the p38 MAP-kinase pathway is not involved in TNFalpha-induced TN-C expression in cultured keratinocytes. Activation of the JNK/SAPK-1 pathway by the addition of sphingomyelinase resulted in a dose-dependent increase of TN-C expression. TN-C expression by squamous carcinoma cell lines was differentially affected by the cytokines that stimulated TN-C expression in normal keratinocytes: TNFalpha again increased TN-C secretion, but IL-4 and IFNgamma had little effect. We conclude that there are distinct regulation mechanisms for TN-C expression in normal keratinocytes, tumor-derived keratinocytes and mesenchymal cells. The observation that TN-C is abundant in inflamed skin is a strong indication that inflammatory cytokines such as IL-4, TNFalpha and IFNgamma could also be involved in the regulation of epidermal TN-C expression in vivo.
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- M A Latijnhouwers
- Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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Breitkreutz D, Schoop VM, Mirancea N, Baur M, Stark HJ, Fusenig NE. Epidermal differentiation and basement membrane formation by HaCaT cells in surface transplants. Eur J Cell Biol 1998; 75:273-86. [PMID: 9587059 DOI: 10.1016/s0171-9335(98)80123-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 110] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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The immortal human keratinocyte line HaCaT has been employed in many studies as paradigm for epidermal keratinocytes. In order to demonstrate its potential to form stable epidermal structures in response to connective tissue, this was challenged in surface transplants on nude mice, where normal keratinocytes rebuild a typical epidermis within two weeks. During the initial regeneration phase (day 1-4) multilayered but poorly organized epithelia formed with proliferating cells in all layers in analogy to normal keratinocytes. Similarly, with tissue consolidation (around day 7) proliferation was reduced and restricted to cells in basal position marked by keratin K14 and beta1-integrin immunostaining. The strong suprabasal reaction for K1 and K10, the appearance of the late markers K2e, filaggrin and loricrin as well as the polarized distribution of alpha2beta1 and alpha3beta1 indicated advancing tissue normalization (day 14). Keratinization further improved at around three weeks switching from the initial parakeratotic to the regular orthokeratotic type which was prominent at six weeks. Accordingly, most ultrastructural features typical for epidermis or normal keratinocyte grafts were detectable including a complete basement membrane (BM) with regular attachment structures. Matrix- and BM-components appeared sequentially with marked linear deposition of laminin-5 (day 4) followed by accumulation of collagen-IV and 'classical' BM-laminin between one and two weeks. With the general codistribution of integrin alpha6beta4 and BM-molecules (day 14) collagen-VII lining of BM became prominent, while epithelium and host connective tissue were still separated by the collagen matrix. In accordance with the delayed orthokeratinization, wound-matrix molecules (fibronectin, tenascin) persisted longer than in normal keratinocyte transplants. Finally, grafts of long-term passaged (no. 310) cells demonstrated a remarkable stability in the expression of epidermal markers. Thus, the immortalized HaCaT cells reveal a generally high competence to realize an epidermal phenotype in a natural environment and appear therefore qualified for in vitro studies on structural and regulatory aspects of keratinocyte physiology and pathology.
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- D Breitkreutz
- Division of Carcinogenesis and Differentiation, German Cancer Research Center, Heidelberg
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