title: Relationship between urokinase plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) and the invasion of human prenatal hair follicle.
abstract: During the morphogenesis of hair follicles, the invasive migration of basal keratinocytes resembles cell's dissemination of tissue remodeling. The urokinase-type plasminogen activator receptor (uPAR) appears to be a key molecule in the metastasis. In order to elucidate the relationship between uPAR and the invasion of the human hair follicle, immunohistochemistry, RT-PCR, plasmids transfection, and western blot were used. The results showed that uPAR was expressed in the outermost epithelial cells of the hair follicle and the basal keratinocytes of epidermis, and that the expression decreased with the development of the hair follicle. The cells of the outer root sheath (ORS) and interfollicle epidermis, which overexpressed uPAR, acquired increased invasiveness; however, they showed decreased invasion with overexpression of the urokinase-type plasminogen activator amino terminal fragment (uPA ATF), which inhibited the combination of uPAR and uPA competitively, and the cell invasive migration with overexpressed uPAR was required activated extracellular signal-regulated kinases (ERK). These results implied that overexpression of uPAR promote the invasive migration of hair follicle into the dermis in uPA-dependent and independent manner during human prenatal development.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, College of Basic Medicine, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, People's Republic of China. gaoqiangguo@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Qiangguo
authors.initials: Q
authors.lastname: Gao
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Fu
authors.forename: Gang
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Huang
authors.forename: Xiaohua
authors.initials: X
authors.lastname: Lian
authors.forename: Jin
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Yu
authors.forename: Tian
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Yang
mesh_terms: D001667:Binding, Competitive; D002460:Cell Line; D002465:Cell Movement; D003001:Cloning, Molecular; D004622:Embryo, Mammalian; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D048049:Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D018507:Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental; D018859:Hair Follicle / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D015603:Keratinocytes / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D009024:Morphogenesis; D011247:Pregnancy; D017434:Protein Structure, Tertiary / Q000235:genetics; D055293:Receptors, Urokinase Plasminogen Activator / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator / Q000378:metabolism
chemical_list: C524898:PLAUR protein, human; D055293:Receptors, Urokinase Plasminogen Activator; D048049:Extracellular Signal-Regulated MAP Kinases; D014568:Urokinase-Type Plasminogen Activator