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JOURNAL OF INVESTIGATIVE DERMATOLOGY
卷 133, 期 6, 页码 1591-1600出版社
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1038/jid.2013.18
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- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [DFG Pa 345/13-1]
- Minerva fellowship (Max-Planck-Society)
P-cadherin serves as a major topobiological cue in mammalian epithelium. In human hair follicles (HFs), it is prominently expressed in the inner hair matrix that harbors the HF pigmentary unit. However, the role of P-cadherin in normal human pigmentation remains unknown. As patients with mutations in the gene that encodes P-cadherin show hypotrichosis and fair hair, we explored the hypothesis that P-cadherin may control HF pigmentation. When P-cadherin was silenced in melanogenically active organ-cultured human scalp HFs, this significantly reduced HF melanogenesis and tyrosinase activity as well as gene and/or protein expression of gp100, stem cell factor, c-Kit, and microphthalmia-associated transcription factor (MITF), both in situ and in isolated human HF melanocytes. Instead, epidermal pigmentation was unaffected by P-cadherin knockdown in organ-cultured human skin. In hair matrix keratinocytes, P-cadherin silencing reduced plasma membrane beta-catenin, whereas glycogen synthase kinase 3 beta (GSK3 beta) and phospho-beta-catenin expression were significantly upregulated. This suggests that P-cadherin-GSK3 beta/Wnt signaling is required for maintaining the expression of MITF to sustain intrafollicular melanogenesis. Thus, P-cadherin-mediated signaling is a melanocyte subtype-specific topobiological regulator of normal human pigmentation, possibly via GSK3 beta-mediated canonical Wnt signaling.
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