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Genome-wide analysis of keratinocyte gene expression during their course of differentiation in presence or absence of JNK1,2-deficient or wildtype immortalized mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs)

ABSTRACT: Analysis of keratinocyte differentiation in presence or absence of fibroblast-derived JNK-dependent soluble factors in vitro. The hypothesis tested in the present study was that JNK-dependent fibroblast-derived soluble factors promote an efficient keratinocyte differentiation. Results provide important information about reduced expression of a subset of differentiation associated genes in keratinocytes in the absence of JNK-dependent fibroblast-derived soluble factors.

ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens

PROVIDER: GSE48613 | GEO | 2013/11/26

SECONDARY ACCESSION(S): PRJNA210824

REPOSITORIES: GEO

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Project description:Epidermis, a continuously self-renewing and differentiating organ, produces a protective stratum corneum that shields us from external chemical, physical and microbial threats. Epidermal differentiation is a multi-step process regulated by influences, some unknown, others insufficiently explored. Detachment of keratinocytes from the basement membrane is one such pro-differentiation stimulus. Here, we define the transcriptional changes during differentiation, especially those caused by detachment from the substratum. Using comprehensive transcriptional profiling, we revisited the effects of detachment as a differentiation signal to keratinocytes. We identified the genes regulated by detachment, the corresponding ontological categories and, using metaanalysis, compared the genes and categories to those regulated by other pro-differentiating stimuli. We identified 762 genes overexpressed in suspended keratinocyte, including known and novel differentiation markers, and 1427 in attached cells, including basal layer markers. Detachment induced epidermis development, cornification and desmosomal genes, but also innate immunity, proliferation inhibitors, transcription regulators and MAPKs; conversely the attached cells overexpressed cell cycle, anchoring, motility, splicing and mitochondrial genes, and both positive and negative regulators of apoptosis. Metaanalysis identified which detachment-regulated categories overlap with those induced by suprabasal location in vivo, by reaching confluency in vitro, and by inhibition of JUN kinases. Attached and in vivo basal cells shared overexpression of mitochondrial components. Interestingly, melanosome trafficking components were also overexpressed in the attached and in vivo basal keratinocytes. Reaching confluency did not affect adhesion and ECM proteins. Lipid metabolism and steroid metabolism were induced by confluency and by JNK inhibition, respectively. These results suggest that specific pro-differentiation signals induce specific features of the keratinization process, which are in vivo orchestrated into harmonious epidermal homeostasis. Human epidermal keratinocytes are grown in standard growth medium either attached in tissue culture plates, or suspended, in the same medium, in bacteriological plates. After 48 hrs, attached and suspended cultures were harvested and their transcriptomes compared.

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Genome-wide analysis of keratinocyte gene expression during their course of differentiation in presence or absence of JNK1,2-deficient or wildtype immortalized mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs)

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