Gene silencing in a human organotypic skin model.

Abstract:

:Here we present a simple and highly reproducible method which allows the study of the effects of a single gene knockdown in an organotypic skin model. Human keratinocytes (KC) were transfected with backbone-modified short interfering RNAs (siRNAs) specific for vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) and matriptase-1. Twenty-four hours later the transfected cells were seeded onto fibroblast collagen suspensions and allowed to build up a multilayered epidermis by culture at the air/medium interface for 7 days. Protein expression of both targeted genes remained down-regulated by more than 80% up to 8 days after transfection. As expected, VEGF knockdown by siRNA did not alter epidermis formation in our organotypic skin model. By contrast ablation of matriptase-1 led to aberrant KC differentiation and impaired filaggrin processing and resulted in an epidermal phenotype closely resembling that of matriptase-1 deficient mouse skin. Our results suggest that siRNA-mediated gene silencing is highly efficient in an organotypic skin model and readily allows the assessment of the roles of individual genes during terminal KC differentiation.

authors

Mildner M,Ballaun C,Stichenwirth M,Bauer R,Gmeiner R,Buchberger M,Mlitz V,Tschachler E

doi

10.1016/j.bbrc.2006.07.035

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2006-09-15 00:00:00

pages

76-82

issue

1

eissn

0006-291X

issn

1090-2104

pii

S0006-291X(06)01526-9

journal_volume

348

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