Identification of bone morphogenetic protein (BMP)-7 as a key instructive factor for human epidermal Langerhans cell differentiation and proliferation
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ABSTRACT: Langerhans dendritic cells represent abundantly occuring and evolutionary highly conserved DCs specifically located in the stratified epithelial tissues. LCs are unique among DC family members in that they express epithelial-type adhesion molecules, allowing them to form a tight three-dimensional network in basal and suprabasal epidermal keratinocyte layers and developmentally dependent on the cytokine TGF-M-NM-21. In the present study, we identified BMP-7 as another key factor inducing LC differnetiation. Here we have performed comparative analysis of highly purified CD207+/CD1a+ in vitro generated Langerhans cells in the presence of BMP-7 and TGF-M-NM-21. We have identified that both BMP-7-LCs and TGF-M-NM-21-LCs are closely related to each other. CD34+ hematopoietic stem cells were isolated from freshly obtained cord blood and cultured in the presence of GM-CSF, SCF, Flt3L, TNFa and either TGF-M-NM-21 or BMP-7 for 7 days to get immature LCs. RNA was isolated from these in vitro genetared LCs.
ORGANISM(S): Homo sapiens
SUBMITTER: Karin Wagner
PROVIDER: E-GEOD-49085 | biostudies-arrayexpress |
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-arrayexpress
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