title: CD24 (heat stable antigen, nectadrin), a novel keratinocyte differentiation marker, is preferentially expressed in areas of the hair follicle containing the colony-forming cells.
abstract: We have isolated, by subtractive and differential hybridization from a library constructed from keratinocyte colony-forming cells (K-CFCs), a cDNA coding for the rat CD24 (nectadrin, heat stable antigen). CD24, a glycoprotein thought to be involved in cell-cell adhesion and signalling, is highly expressed in keratinocytes located in the bulge area of the rat vibrissa which contains the most K-CFCs. CD24 is also expressed in the outer epithelial sheath of human hair follicles and in glabrous epidermis. However, its expression is not restricted to K-CFCs as demonstrated by cell sorting experiments, and it is thus not a specific marker of clonogenic keratinocytes. Rather, its preferential distribution in keratinocytes located in the most innervated area of the rat vibrissal follicle, i.e., the bulge, suggests that is function could be related to the tactile role of the hair follicle.
authors.affiliation: Laboratoire de Différenciation Epithéliale, Département de Biologie, Paris, France.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Magnaldo
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Barrandon
mesh_terms: D016475:3T3 Cells; D000595:Amino Acid Sequence; D000818:Animals; D015703:Antigens, CD / Q000235:genetics / Q000276:immunology*; D001483:Base Sequence; D015415:Biomarkers; D051927:CD24 Antigen; D002454:Cell Differentiation; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D018859:Hair Follicle / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology*; D006801:Humans; D015603:Keratinocytes / Q000166:cytology / Q000276:immunology*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D051379:Mice; D008969:Molecular Sequence Data; D012333:RNA, Messenger; D051381:Rats; D011916:Rats, Inbred F344; D014738:Vibrissae / Q000276:immunology
chemical_list: D015703:Antigens, CD; D015415:Biomarkers; D051927:CD24 Antigen; C497889:CD24 protein, human; C497890:Cd24a protein, mouse; D018076:DNA, Complementary; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; D012333:RNA, Messenger