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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE
Volume 28, Issue 2, Pages 171-179Publisher
SPANDIDOS PUBL LTD
DOI: 10.3892/ijmm.2011.685
Keywords
human GATA binding protein 3; allergic disease; skin inflammation; transgenic mice
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- Korea Food and Drug Administration [09151KFDA655]
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GATA binding protein 3 (GATA3) is a key molecule regulating the balance in the ratio of type 1 helper T (Th1) cells to type 2 helper T (Th2) cells, which is thought to be indicative of the pathogenesis of allergic diseases such as asthma and atopic dermatitis. The aim of this study was to investigate the role of GATA3 in allergic skin inflammation. Transgenic (Tg) mice overexpressing human GATA 3 (hGATA3) were produced by the microinjection of pCMV/hGATA3 constructs into fertilized mouse eggs. The hGATA3 gene was successfully expressed at the protein level in the lymph node and thymus of CMV/hGATA3 transfected cells and Tg mice. CMV/hGATA3 Tg mice showed a significant increase in the allergic skin inflammation response such as ear thickness, draining auricular lymph node (aLN) weight, epidermal thickness, inflammatory cell number and Th2 immunoglobulin (Ig) concentration compared to wild-type (WT) mice after phthalic anhydride (PA) treatment. Furthermore, the secretion of Th2 type cytokines was increased by PA treatment in CMV/hGATA3 Tg mice, while the secretion of Th1 type cytokine was suppressed under the same conditions. However, the increased levels of Th2 type cytokines in CMV/hGATA3 Tg mice were almost recovered by the down-regulation of GATA3 expression with D-pinitol treatment. Therefore, these findings suggest that GATA3 could be considered as a potential target regulating the mechanism responsible for the differences in allergic skin inflammation.
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