Journal: Skin Health and Disease
Article Title: Anti‐inflammatory control of human skin keratinocytes by targeting nuclear transport checkpoint
doi: 10.1002/ski2.356
Figure Lengend Snippet: NTCI treatment inhibits expression of TSLP and other proinflammatory genes encoding proteins that mediate skin inflammation in cultured human KCs. (a) NTCI suppresses genes encoding the inflammatory mediators in cultured human primary KCs stimulated with TNF‐α/IL‐17A. The gene expression was determined using real‐time quantitative reverse transcription PCR (qRT PCR). The relative expression levels were established with Livak’s methods (2 −∆∆Ct ) with αTubulin gene as the reference and a Mock Control group as the calibrator. The data is presented as a mean + S.E.M. ( n = 4). The statistical significance of the difference between the transcript levels in the cells Stimulated untreated and cells Stimulated treated with the NTCI, cSN50.1 peptide was determined using an ordinary one‐way ANOVA with an uncorrected Fisher’s LSD test for a multiple comparison, ** p < 0.005, *** p < 0.0005. (b) NTCI suppresses production of cognate proteins, TSLP, GM‐CSF (CSF2) and IL‐8 (CXCL8) in cultured human primary KCs stimulated with TNF‐α/IL‐17A. Supernatant samples were collected from the medium of cultured KCs at the indicated timepoints after TNF‐α/IL‐17A stimulation. The proteins concentration was determined in the culture medium using ELISA (TSLP) and CBA (GM‐CSF and IL‐8) assays. The data is presented as mean ± S.E.M. ( n = 4). The statistical significance of the difference between the cytokine/chemokine levels in the media from stimulated cells and stimulated cells treated with the NTCI, cSN50.1 peptide, was determined by a repeated measure two‐way ANOVA using an uncorrected Fisher’s LSD test for multiple comparison, *** p < 0.0005, **** p < 0.0001. CSF2, Granulocyte‐Macrophage Colony‐Stimulating Factor; CXCL8, chemokine IL‐8; KCs, keratinocytes; NTCI, Nuclear Transport Checkpoint Inhibitor; TNF‐α, Tumor Necrosis Factor alpha; TSLP, Thymic Stromal Lymphopoietin.
Article Snippet: Human Primary Epidermal KCs (ATCC; PCS‐200‐011) used in this study were purchased from American‐Type Culture Collection.
Techniques: Expressing, Cell Culture, Gene Expression, Reverse Transcription, Quantitative RT-PCR, Control, Comparison, Concentration Assay, Enzyme-linked Immunosorbent Assay