Human Molecular Genetics Advance Access originally published online on January 6, 2006
Human Molecular Genetics 2006 15(4):531-542; doi:10.1093/hmg/ddi470
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Skin lesion development in a mouse model of incontinentia pigmenti is triggered by NEMO deficiency in epidermal keratinocytes and requires TNF signaling
1European Molecular Biology Laboratory, Mouse Biology Unit, via Ramarini 32, 00016 Monterotondo-Scalo (Rome), Italy, 2Department of Dermatology, Center for Molecular Medicine, University of Cologne (CMMC), Joseph-Stelzmann-Strasse 9, 50924 Cologne, Germany, 3CBR Institute for Biomedical Research, Harvard Medical School, 200 Longwood Avenue, Boston, MA 02115, USA, 4Abteilung für Molekulare und Zelluläre Sportmedizin, Deutsche Sporthochschule Köln, IG I, Carl-Diem-Weg 6, D-50933 Köln, Germany and 5Institut de Génétique et de Biologie Moléculaire et Cellulaire (IGBMC), CNRS, INSERM, ULP, and Institut Clinique de la Souris (ICS), BP 10142-67404, ILLKIRCH, C.U. de Strasbourg, France
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Received October 13, 2005; Revised December 7, 2005; Accepted December 31, 2005
NF-
B essential modulator (NEMO), the regulatory subunit of the I
B kinase, is essential for NF-
B activation. Mutations disrupting the X-linked NEMO gene cause incontinentia pigmenti (IP), a human genetic disease characterized by male embryonic lethality and by a complex pathology affecting primarily the skin in heterozygous females. The cellular and molecular mechanisms leading to skin lesion pathogenesis in IP patients remain elusive. Here we used epidermis-specific deletion of NEMO in mice to investigate the mechanisms causing the skin pathology in IP. NEMO deletion completely inhibited NF-
B activation and sensitized keratinocytes to tumor necrosis factor (TNF)-induced death but did not affect epidermal development. Keratinocyte-restricted NEMO deletion, either constitutive or induced in adult skin, caused inflammatory skin lesions, identifying the NEMO-deficient keratinocyte as the initiating cell type that triggers the skin pathology in IP. Furthermore, genetic ablation of tumor necrosis factor receptor 1 (TNFRI) rescued the skin phenotype demonstrating that TNF signaling is essential for skin lesion pathogenesis in IP. These results identify the NEMO-deficient keratinocyte as a potent initiator of skin inflammation and provide novel insights into the mechanism leading to the pathogenesis of IP.
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