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JOURNAL OF PHARMACOLOGY AND EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS
Volume 319, Issue 3, Pages 1162-1171Publisher
AMER SOC PHARMACOLOGY EXPERIMENTAL THERAPEUTICS
DOI: 10.1124/jpet.106.111724
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- NIAMS NIH HHS [AR45603, P30 AR41943, AR47357] Funding Source: Medline
- NIEHS NIH HHS [P30 ES00267] Funding Source: Medline
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Human epidermal keratinocytes express subsets of cytochromes P450 (P450) (CYP gene products) that are strongly up-regulated, not regulated, or down-regulated by differentiation-specific factors. We investigated how drug exposure affects epidermal expression of CYP1-4 genes, which encode many drug-metabolizing P450s. Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) assays measured CYP1-4 mRNA levels in epidermal keratinocytes differentiated in vitro in the presence of drug or vehicle for 6 days. We confirmed the spinous phenotype at day 6 by changes in cellular morphology and upregulation of cytokeratin 10 and transglutaminase (TGM) 1 mRNA in the differentiating keratinocytes. Effects of drug exposure depended on the influence of differentiation-specific factors in controlling epidermal CYP1-4 expression. CYP2C18, 2C19, 2C9, 2W1, 3A4, and 4B1 are up-regulated by cellular differentiation; mRNA levels for these CYP genes were inhibited in differentiating keratinocytes exposed to retinoic acid and aryl hydrocarbon receptor (AhR) ligands. These same drugs effected <= 2-fold change or even augmented mRNA levels for CYP genes that are not regulated by differentiation (CYP2S1, 2J2, 1B1, 1A1, 1A2, 2E1, and 2D6) and for CYP2U1, which is expressed at highest levels in undifferentiated keratinocytes. The clinically relevant drugs miconazole, dexamethasone, rifampicin, and dapsone had little effect on CYP1-4 mRNA levels under assay conditions. The AhR ligand 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzop-dioxin also up-regulated keratinocyte TGM1 mRNA in a concentration- and time-dependent manner. This effect was blocked by the AhR antagonist resveratrol. These findings implicate AhR-dependent up-regulation of TGM1 mRNA in differentiating keratinocytes as one mechanism contributing toward chloracne in humans exposed to toxic levels of dioxin.
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