Project description:Study the effect of novel octapeptide isolated from Lingzhi mushroom on skin melanocyte cell (Mus Musculus) by gel-free based proteomics
Project description:Comparison of gene expression profiles from Mus musculus skin of two age groups. The RNA-seq data comprise 2 groups at ages: 2 and 9 months. Jena Centre for Systems Biology of Ageing - JenAge (www.jenage.de)
Project description:Comparison of temporal small RNA gene expression from Mus musculus skin. The RNA-seq data comprise 5 groups at ages: 2, 9, 15, 24 and 30 months. Jena Centre for Systems Biology of Ageing - JenAge (www.jenage.de)
Project description:In this study, we analysed early embryonic skin development (mus musculus; C57BL/6J) at the transcriptional level. Major questions concerned the cell type composition of early embryonic skin, and the emergence of transcriptional heterogeneity among epithelial and stromal precursor cells. Cells were isolated from embryonic dorsal skin and randomly sequenced (scRNA-Seq using 10X Genomics v2) without any cell sorting. Data from three embryonic time points (E12.5, E13.5, and E14.5) was integrated and compared to obtain a better understanding of the dynamics of early skin development.
Project description:Quantitative label free proteomics on an n=1 experiment of isolated tritosomes (lysosomes) from mus musculus, WT and a knock out of the LIMP2 protein.
Project description:Mammalian skin wounds heal by forming fibrotic scars. We report that reindeer antler velvet exhibits regenerative wound healing, whereas identical injury to back skin forms scar. This regenerative capacity was retained following ectopic transplantation of velvet to scar-forming sites. Single-cell mRNA/ATAC-Sequencing revealed that while uninjured velvet fibroblasts resembled human fetal fibroblasts, back skin fibroblasts were enriched in pro-inflammatory features resembling adult human fibroblasts. Injury elicited site-specific immune polarization; back skin fibroblasts amplified the immune response, whereas velvet fibroblasts adopted an immunosuppressive state leading to restrained myeloid maturation and hastened immune resolution ultimately enabling myofibroblast reversion to a regeneration-competent state. Finally, regeneration was blunted following application of back skin associated immunostimulatory signals or inhibition of pro-regenerative factors secreted exclusive to velvet fibroblasts. This study highlights a unique model to interrogate mechanisms underlying divergent healing outcomes and nominates both decoupling of stromal-immune crosstalk and reinforcement of pro-regenerative fibroblast programs to mitigate scar.
Project description:Environmental factors that enhance regeneration are largely unknown. We hypothesized that skin bacteria modulate regeneration. Here, we assessed low, medium, and high levels of bacterial burden in Wound Induced Hair follicle Neogenesis (WIHN), a rare adult organogenesis model. WIHN levels and stem cell markers indeed correlated with bacterial counts, being lowest in germ free (GF), intermediate in conventional specific pathogen free (SPF), and highest even in mice infected with pathogenic Staphylococcus aureus. We identified IL-1β and keratinocyte-dependent IL-1R-MyD88 signaling as necessary and sufficient for bacteria to promote regeneration. Finally, in a small clinical trial, we found that a topical broad-spectrum antibiotic slowed skin wound healing. These results counter conventional notions that infection inhibits regeneration and the need for full sterility of small wounds.