NFATc1は,皮膚幹細胞の静止と増殖のバランスをとります
Valerie Horsley1, Antonios O Aliprantis, Lisa Polak
1Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Laboratory of Mammalian Cell Biology and Development, The Rockefeller University, New York, NY 10065, USA.
Cell
|February 5, 2008
まとめ
活性化されたT細胞c1の核因子 (NFATc1) は,CDK4.4を抑制することによって,毛皮の幹細胞の静止状態を維持する. ダウンレギュレーションにより,幹細胞の活性化と髪の成長が可能になり,重要なシグナル伝達経路を明らかにします.
科学分野:
- 幹細胞生物学 幹細胞生物学とは
- 分子シグナル伝達です.
- 皮膚科 皮膚科について
背景:
- 成人幹細胞は組織ホメオスタシスを維持し,制御された増殖と分化を通じて修復します.
- 幹細胞機能の重要な状態である幹細胞静止は,十分に理解されていません.
- ヘアフォリクル幹細胞 (HFSC) は,幹細胞の調節 in vivo を研究するためのモデルを提供します.
研究 の 目的:
- HFSCの静止状態を制御する分子メカニズムを解明する.
- HFSCにおける静止状態から拡散への移行を制御するシグナル伝達経路を特定する.
- HFSCのニッチ規制におけるNFATc1の役割を調査する.
主な方法:
- HFSCにおけるNFATc1発現を検出するための免疫ヒストケミストリー.
- 遺伝子発現とシグナル伝達経路 (BMP,カルシヌーリン) の分析.
- マウスモデルにおけるNFATc1の薬理学的抑制と遺伝的アブレーション.
主要な成果:
- NFATc1は優先的に静止状態のHFSCで発現し,その発現はBMPシグナリングによって活性化されます.
- NFATc1は,重要な細胞循環調節体であるCDK4を直接抑制し,幹細胞の静止状態を維持する.
- カルシヌーリン/NFATc1シグナル伝達の抑制は,HFSCの早期の活性化と早期の卵泡の成長につながる.
- NFATc1のダウンレギュレーションは,髪の成長サイクル中の幹細胞の活性化に伴います.
結論:
- カルシウム-NFATc1-CDK4シグナル伝達軸は,HFSCの静止状態と活性化の重要な調節器である.
- NFATc1はゲートキーパーとして働き,早すぎる幹細胞増殖を防ぐ.
- 発見は,サイクロスポリンAのようなカルシヌーリンの阻害剤で治療された患者で観察された高トリコシスの分子説明を提供します.
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