Foxc1 Ablated Mice Are Anhidrotic and Recapitulate Features of Human Miliaria Sweat Retention Disorder

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• 作者：Chang-Yi Cui¹ ; ^{cuic@mail.nih.gov} ; Ryuga Ishii¹ ; Dean P. Campbell¹ ; Marc Michel¹ ; Yulan Piao¹ ; Tsutomu Kume² ; David Schlessinger¹
• 关键词：ChIP ; chromatin immunoprecipitation ; qRT-PCR ; quantitative real-time reverse transcriptase-PCR ; WT ; wild type
• 刊名：Journal of Investigative Dermatology
• 出版年：2017
• 出版时间：January 2017
• 年：2017
• 卷：137
• 期：1
• 页码：38-45
• 全文大小：1822 K
• 卷排序：137

文摘

Sweat glands are critical for thermoregulation. The single tubular structure of sweat glands has a lower secretory portion and an upper reabsorptive duct leading to the secretory pore in the skin. Genes that determine sweat gland structure and function are largely unidentified. Here we report that a Fox family transcription factor, Foxc1, is obligate for appreciable sweat duct activity in mice. When Foxc1 was specifically ablated in skin, sweat glands appeared mature, but the mice were severely hypohidrotic. Morphologic analysis revealed that sweat ducts were blocked by hyperkeratotic or parakeratotic plugs. Consequently, lumens in ducts and secretory portions were dilated, and blisters and papules formed on the skin surface in the knockout mice. The phenotype was strikingly similar to the human sweat retention disorder miliaria. We further show that Foxc1 deficiency ectopically induces the expression of keratinocyte terminal differentiation markers in the duct luminal cells, which most likely contribute to keratotic plug formation. Among those differentiation markers, we show that Sprr2a transcription is directly repressed by overexpressed Foxc1 in keratinocytes. In summary, Foxc1 regulates sweat duct luminal cell differentiation, and mutant mice mimic miliaria and provide a possible animal model for its study.