2024-03-29T13:41:43Zhttp://repisalud.isciii.es/oai/requestoai:repisalud.isciii.es:20.500.12105/102632023-10-05T08:50:18Zcom_20.500.12105_2174com_20.500.12105_2051com_20.500.12105_2173col_20.500.12105_2175
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Wurm, Stefanie
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Zhang, Jisheng
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Guinea-Viniegra, Juan
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García, Fernando
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Muñoz, Javier
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Bakiri, Latifa
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Ezhkova, Elena
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Wagner, Erwin F
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Munoz, Javier
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Wagner, Erwin F.
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2015-01-15
Altered epidermal differentiation characterizes numerous skin diseases affecting >25% of the human population. Here we identified Fra-2/AP-1 as a key regulator of terminal epidermal differentiation. Epithelial-restricted, ectopic expression of Fra-2 induced expression of epidermal differentiation genes located within the epidermal differentiation complex (EDC). Moreover, in a papilloma-prone background, a reduced tumor burden was observed due to precocious keratinocyte differentiation by Fra-2 expression. Importantly, loss of Fra-2 in suprabasal keratinocytes is sufficient to cause skin barrier defects due to reduced expression of differentiation genes. Mechanistically, Fra-2 binds and transcriptionally regulates EDC gene promoters, which are co-occupied by the transcriptional repressor Ezh2. Fra-2 remains transcriptionally inactive in nondifferentiated keratinocytes, where it was found monomethylated and dimethylated on Lys104 and interacted with Ezh2. Upon keratinocyte differentiation, Fra-2 is C-terminally phosphorylated on Ser320 and Thr322 by ERK1/2, leading to transcriptional activation. Thus, the induction of epidermal differentiation by Fra-2 is controlled by a dual mechanism involving Ezh2-dependent methylation and activation by ERK1/2-dependent phosphorylation.
Genes Dev . 2015;29(2):144-56
0890-9369
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12105/10263
25547114
10.1101/gad.249748.114
1549-5477
Genes & development
Terminal epidermal differentiation is regulated by the interaction of Fra-2/AP-1 with Ezh2 and ERK1/2.