Microarray analysis of gene expression in Rabgef1-knockout and control mouse skin

ABSTRACT: RABGEF1, a guanine nucleotide exchange factor for Rab5 GTPase, can negatively regulate mast cell activation in vitro. In addition, RabGEF1-deficient mice develop morbidity and severe skin inflammation associated with marked increases in skin mast cell numbers (Tam et al., Nat Immunol, 5(8):844-52, 2004). These findings suggest that over-reactive skin mast cells may contribute to the observed skin pathology in vivo. In order to identify the cell type(s) which contribute to skin inflammation when RabGEF1 is absent, we attempted to delete Rabgef1 gene specifically in three major skin cell types, namely mast cells, myeloid cells and keratinocytes; thus, Rabgef1 floxed (fl/fl) mice were crossed with mice expressing the Cre-recombinase under the influence of the promoter of Mcpt5, LysZ or K14,

ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus

SUBMITTER: Dimitri Pirottin 

PROVIDER: E-MTAB-5000 | biostudies-arrayexpress |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress