EVIDENCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY OF KERATINOCYTE MATURATION IN PSORIASIS FROM AN ANTIGEN FOUND IN PSORIATIC BUT NOT NORMAL EPIDERMIS
EVIDENCE FOR AN ALTERNATIVE PATHWAY OF KERATINOCYTE MATURATION IN PSORIASIS FROM AN ANTIGEN FOUND IN PSORIATIC BUT NOT NORMAL EPIDERMIS
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DOI:
10.1111/1523-1747.ep12340429
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发表时间:
1984-01-01
影响因子:
6.5
通讯作者:
STREFLING, AM
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作者:
MANSBRIDGE, JN;KNAPP, AM;STREFLING, AM
A murine monoclonal antibody called .psi.-3, which immunolabels maturing keratinocytes in psoriatic skin but not in normal epidermis, was isolated. The staining is cytoplasmic and is not extractable with 1% Triton X-100, which suggests that the .psi.-3 antigen is a structural component of the keratinocyte. Neither basal cells nor invading inflammatory cells are stained in psoriatic skin, and the antigen appears to be associated specifically with maturing and not proliferating keratinocytes. Keratinocytes cultured in vitro from skin from nonpsoriatic individuals display the antigen in a granular pattern in differentiated cells. The antigen is also expressed after tape-stripping of normal skin, and represents an inducible product of normal keratinocytes. The antigen is destroyed by proteinase K, and appears to be a protein. On discontinuous sodium dodecyl sulfate-gel electrophoresis, the antigen has a MW of 135,000. The .psi.-3 antigen is interpreted as a new keratinocyte product expressed in psoriasis, culture, wound healing, and certain other pathologic skin conditions. The synthesis of such a new antigen would not be expected if keratinocyte maturation in psoriasis is a truncated version of the normal system, and it supports the hypothesis that psoriatic keratinocytes are following an alternative pathway. Results using experimental injury suggest that the psoriatic pathway is normally expressed during wound healing.