Liat Samuelov, Qiaoli Li, Ron Bochner, Nicole A Najor, Lauren Albrecht, Natalia Malchin, Tomer Goldsmith, Meital Grafi-Cohen, Dan Vodo, Gilad Fainberg, Benjamin Meilik, Ilan Goldberg, Emily Warshauer, Tova Rogers, Sarah Edie, Akemi Ishida-Yamamoto, Lisa Burzenski, Noam Erez, Steve A Murray, Alan D Irvine, Lenny Shultz, Kathleen J Green, Jouni Uitto, Eli Sprecher, Ofer Sarig
SVEP1 is a recently identified multidomain cell adhesion protein, homologous to the mouse polydom protein, which has been shown to mediate cell-cell adhesion in an integrin-dependent manner in osteogenic cells. In this study, we characterized SVEP1 function in the epidermis. SVEP1 was found by qRT-PCR to be ubiquitously expressed in human tissues, including the skin. Confocal microscopy revealed that SVEP1 is normally mostly expressed in the cytoplasm of basal and suprabasal epidermal cells. Downregulation of SVEP1 expression in primary keratinocytes resulted in decreased expression of major epidermal differentiation markers...
May 2017: Experimental Dermatology