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NATURE GENETICS
卷 28, 期 2, 页码 165-168出版社
NATURE AMERICA INC
DOI: 10.1038/88889
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- NCI NIH HHS [CA09197, CA52607, CA79998] Funding Source: Medline
- NIAMS NIH HHS [AR62228] Funding Source: Medline
- NICHD NIH HHS [HD25479] Funding Source: Medline
The beta -catenin/TCF signaling pathway is essential for the maintenance of epithelial stem cells in the small intestine(1). c-Myc a downstream target of beta -catenin/TCF (ref. 2), can induce differentiation of epidermal stem cells in vitro(3). To determine the role of c-Myc in epidermal stem cells in vivo, we have targeted expression of human MYC2 to the hair follicles and the basal layer of mouse epidermis using a keratin 14 vector (K14,MYC2), Adult K14,MYC2 mice gradually lose their hair and develop spontaneous ulcerated lesions due to a severe impairment in wound healing; their keratinocytes show impaired migration in response to wounding. The expression of beta1 integrin, which is preferentially expressed in epidermal stem cells(4) is unusually low in the epidermis of K14.MYC2 mice. Label-retaining analysis to identify epidermal stem cells reveals a 75% reduction in the number of stem cells in 3-month-old K14.MYC2 mice, compared with wildtype mice. We conclude that deregulated expression of c-Myc in stem cells reduces beta1 integrin expression, which is essential to both keratinocyte migration and stem cell maintenance.
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