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Type: Journal article
Title: Overexpression of Flii during murine embryonic development increases symmetrical division of epidermal progenitor cells
Author: Yang, G.N.
Ahangar, P.
Strudwick, X.L.
Kopecki, Z.
Cowin, A.J.
Citation: International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2021; 22(15):8235-1-8235-20
Publisher: MDPI AG
Issue Date: 2021
ISSN: 1422-0067
1422-0067
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Gink N. Yang, Parinaz Ahangar, Xanthe L. Strudwick , Zlatko Kopecki and Allison J. Cowin
Abstract: Epidermal progenitor cells divide symmetrically and asymmetrically to form stratified epidermis and hair follicles during late embryonic development. Flightless I (Flii), an actin remodelling protein, is implicated in Wnt/β-cat and integrin signalling pathways that govern cell division. This study investigated the effect of altering Flii on the divisional orientation of epidermal progenitor cells (EpSCs) in the basal layer during late murine embryonic development and early adolescence. The effect of altering Flii expression on asymmetric vs. symmetric division was assessed in vitro in adult human primary keratinocytes and in vivo at late embryonic development stages (E16, E17 and E19) as well as adolescence (P21 day-old) in mice with altered Flii expression (Flii knockdown: Flii(+/-), wild type: WT, transgenic Flii overexpressing: Flii(Tg/Tg)) using Western blot and immunohistochemistry. Flii(+/-) embryonic skin showed increased asymmetrical cell division of EpSCs with an increase in epidermal stratification and elevated talin, activated-Itgb1 and Par3 expression. Flii(Tg/Tg) led to increased symmetrical cell division of EpSCs with increased cell proliferation rate, an elevated epidermal SOX9, Flap1 and β-cat expression, a thinner epidermis, but increased hair follicle number and depth. Flii promotes symmetric division of epidermal progenitor cells during murine embryonic development.
Keywords: Cell division; skin; progenitor cells; epidermis; embryonic
Rights: © 2021 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https:// creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ 4.0/).
DOI: 10.3390/ijms22158235
Grant ID: http://purl.org/au-research/grants/nhmrc/1102617
Published version: http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/ijms22158235
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