title: Photoactivation of ROS Production In Situ Transiently Activates Cell Proliferation in Mouse Skin and in the Hair Follicle Stem Cell Niche Promoting Hair Growth and Wound Healing.
abstract: The role of reactive oxygen species (ROS) in the regulation of hair follicle (HF) cycle and skin homeostasis is poorly characterized. ROS have been traditionally linked to human disease and aging, but recent findings suggest that they can also have beneficial physiological functions in vivo in mammals. To test this hypothesis, we transiently switched on in situ ROS production in mouse skin. This process activated cell proliferation in the tissue and, interestingly, in the bulge region of the HF, a major reservoir of epidermal stem cells, promoting hair growth, as well as stimulating tissue repair after severe burn injury. We further show that these effects were associated with a transient Src kinase phosphorylation at Tyr416 and with a strong transcriptional activation of the prolactin family 2 subfamily c of growth factors. Our results point to potentially relevant modes of skin homeostasis regulation and demonstrate that a local and transient ROS production can regulate stem cell and tissue function in the whole organism.
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols", Departamento de Bioquímica, CSIC-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Elisa
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Carrasco
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols", Departamento de Bioquímica, CSIC-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: María I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Calvo
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols", Departamento de Bioquímica, CSIC-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Alfonso
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Blázquez-Castro
authors.affiliation: Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Daniela
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Vecchio
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Zamarrón
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols", Departamento de Bioquímica, CSIC-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Irma Joyce Dias
authors.initials: IJD
authors.lastname: de Almeida
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Juan C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Stockert
authors.affiliation: Wellman Center for Photomedicine, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Department of Dermatology, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA; Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
authors.forename: Michael R
authors.initials: MR
authors.lastname: Hamblin
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.
authors.forename: Ángeles
authors.initials: Á
authors.lastname: Juarranz
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Investigaciones Biomédicas "Alberto Sols", Departamento de Bioquímica, CSIC-Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain; Departamento de Biología, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. Electronic address: jespada@iib.uam.es.
authors.forename: Jesús
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Espada
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002056:Burns / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology*; D049109:Cell Proliferation / Q000502:physiology*; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D004195:Disease Models, Animal; D004847:Epithelial Cells / Q000378:metabolism; D005260:Female; D006197:Hair / Q000254:growth & development; D018859:Hair Follicle / Q000378:metabolism; D006801:Humans; D007150:Immunohistochemistry; D015603:Keratinocytes / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D008810:Mice, Inbred C57BL; D010789:Phototherapy; D011897:Random Allocation; D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species / Q000378:metabolism*; D055153:Stem Cell Niche / Q000502:physiology*; D014945:Wound Healing / Q000502:physiology*
chemical_list: D017382:Reactive Oxygen Species