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JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY
Volume 134, Issue 11, Pages 2747-2756Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2014.221
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- Traditional Korean Medicine R&D Project, the Ministry of Health & Welfare, Republic of Korea [HI13C0615]
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Propionibacterium acne and sebaceous glands are considered to have an important role in the development of acne. Although information regarding the activation of innate immunity by P. acnes in the sebaceous gland is limited, different P. acnes phylotypes and a higher prevalence of follicular P. acnes macrocolonies/biofilms in sebaceous follicles of skin biopsies from acne compared with control skin and occasionally single P. acnes clusters in single sebaceous glands have been detected. In this study, we investigated whether P. acnes activates the inflammasome in human sebaceous glands in vivo and in vitro. We found that expression was upregulated in sebaceous glands of acne lesions. After stimulation of human sebocytes with P. acnes, the activation of caspase-1 and secretion of IL-1 beta were enhanced significantly. Moreover, knocking down the expression of NLRP3 abolished P. acnes-induced IL-1 beta production in sebocytes. The activation of the NLRP3 inflammasome by P. acnes was dependent on protease activity and reactive oxygen species generation. Finally, we found that NALP3-deficient mice display an impaired inflammatory response to P. acnes. These results suggest that human sebocytes are important immunocompetent cells that induce the NLRP3 inflammasome, and that P. acnes-induced IL-1 beta activation in sebaceous glands may have a role in combating skin infections and in acne pathogenesis.
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