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EXPERIMENTAL DERMATOLOGY
Volume 32, Issue 7, Pages 1143-1155Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/exd.14823
Keywords
epidermis; organoids; organotypic culture; skin equivalent
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This study presents a method for generating human epidermis organotypic cultures (HEOCs) from primary keratinocytes and an immortalized keratinocyte cell line (KerTr). The HEOCs were characterized and shown to express markers associated with proliferation and differentiation. The ability to generate HEOCs reproducibly on a large scale makes them a valuable model for drug screening and studying epidermal pathologies.
The translatability of research is highly dependent on models that recapitulate human tissues and organs. Here, we describe a procedure for the generation of human epidermis organotypic cultures (HEOCs) from primary keratinocytes isolated from foreskin and adult skin as well as from an immortalized keratinocyte cell line (KerTr). We tested several media conditions to develop a defined HEOC growing and expansion media. We characterized the HEOCs and show that in optimal culture conditions they express the proliferation marker Ki67, the basement membrane protein collagen 17 (col17) and the epidermal differentiation markers keratin 15 (K15), keratin 14 (K14), keratin 5 (K5), keratin 10 (K10), keratin 1 (K1), transglutaminase 1 (TGM1), transglutaminase 3 (TGM3) and filaggrin (FLG). Thus, they recapitulate the human epidermis and are stratified from the basal layer to the stratum corneum. These HEOC can be generated reproducibly on a large scale, making it an invaluable model for screening therapeutic compounds and also for the study of pathologies affecting the epidermis.
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