Journal: Wound repair and regeneration : official publication of the Wound Healing Society [and] the European Tissue Repair Society
Article Title: Porcine-derived collagen peptides promote re-epithelialisation through activation of integrin signalling.
doi: 10.1111/wrr.13177
Figure Lengend Snippet: FIGURE 2 Knockdown of integrin β1 significantly impairs porcine-derived collagen peptide-induced activation of ERK and FAK and wound closure of keratinocytes. (A) Representative western blot for integrin α2 (130 kDa), integrin β1 (130 kDa), p-FAK (110 kDa), FAK (110 kDa), p-Akt (60 kDa), Akt (60 kDa), p-ERK (42–44 kDa), ERK (42–44 kDa), and GAPDH (37 kDa) expression in wounded keratinocytes at 24, 48, and 72 h post-wounding in the presence or absence of 1 mg/mL porcine-derived collagen peptides (PCP) following treatment with either SiCtrl or ITGB1 siRNA. Densitometric expression of (B) integrin β1, (C) integrin α2, (D) p-ERK/ERK, (E) p-FAK/FAK expression relative to GAPDH expression in wounded keratinocytes at 24, 48, and 72 h post-wounding in the presence or absence of 1 mg/mL PCP following treatment with either SiCtrl or ITGB1 siRNA (Mean ± SD, N = 3 independent experiments using 3 different biological samples, Two-way ANOVA with Tukey's multiple comparisons test, *p ≤0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤0.001, ****p ≤0.0001). (F) Schematic diagram illustrating potential downstream pathway activation following PCP binding to the integrin α2β1 receptor in order to promote keratinocyte wound closure. (G) Primary keratinocytes were seeded onto either uncoated wells or wells pre-coated with 1 mg/mL PCP before being treated with ITGB1 siRNA or siCtrl, scratch wound induction and monitoring of wound closure over 72 h (Mean ± SD, N = 3 independent experiments using three different biological samples, One-way ANOVA with Tukey's multiple comparisons test, *p<0.05, **p ≤0.01, ***p ≤0.001, ****p ≤0.0001).
Article Snippet: Primary human keratinocytes and dermal fibroblasts were isolated from surplus human skin following informed consent (REC reference 19/NE/004_Lovat) and maintained as previously described.12 Primary keratinocytes were cultured in either EpiLife media (ThermoFisher Scientific, Waltham, MA, USA) supplemented with 1% human keratinocyte growth factor supplement (HKGS) (ThermoFisher Scientific, USA) and 1% penicillin–streptomycin-amphotericin (PSA) (Lonza, Verviers, Belgium), or Keratinocyte Growth Medium 2 (Promocell, Heidelberg, Germany) supplemented with SupplementMix (Promocell, Germany) and 1% PSA (Lonza, Belgium).
Techniques: Knockdown, Derivative Assay, Activation Assay, Western Blot, Expressing, Binding Assay