Two distinct signaling pathways in hair cycle induction: Stat3-dependent and -independent pathways

AUTOR(ES)

Sano, Shigetoshi

FONTE

The National Academy of Sciences

RESUMO

The hair follicle is an epidermal derivative that undergoes cycles of growth, involution, and rest. The hair cycle has well-orchestrated kinetics regulated by interactions between mesenchymal and epithelial cells, although the intracellular signals remain unclear. We previously established keratinocyte-specific Stat3-disrupted mice, by which we demonstrated that signal transducer and activator of transcription 3 (Stat3) is required for wound healing and anagen progression in the hair cycle. Growth factor-dependent migration of Stat3-disrupted keratinocytes was severely impaired, suggesting that not only wound healing but also telogen-to-anagen progression required organized keratinocyte migration in response to mesenchymal stimuli. In the present study, to examine whether Stat3 activation in keratinocytes is a prerequisite for hair cycle progression, we applied methods for experimental anagen induction to Stat3-disrupted mice. It was demonstrated that anagen was successfully induced in Stat3-disrupted as well as wild-type mice by chemical or mechanical stimulation, i.e., by topical application of phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate (PMA) or by hair plucking, respectively. This result indicated that anagen in these methods occurred in the absence of Stat3. Furthermore, PMA stimulated the migration of Stat3-disrupted keratinocytes in vitro, supporting a hypothesis that the protein kinase C (PKC) and Stat3 pathways occur independently in the postnatal anagen induction. Both Stat3-dependent and -independent migration of keratinocytes was inhibited by a phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor, wortmannin. Therefore, we infer that entry into anagen is mediated by at least two distinct signaling pathways: Stat3-dependent pathway for spontaneous hair cycling and Stat3-independent (probably PKC-dependent) pathway for exogenously induced hair cycling, whereas both pathways require PI3K activation.

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