Dermal Cell News Volume 7.22 | Jun 21 2021

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    Vol. 7.22 – 21 June, 2021
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    Single-Cell RNA-Seq Reveals Fibroblast Heterogeneity and Increased Mesenchymal Fibroblasts in Human Fibrotic Skin Diseases

    Reserachers explored fibroblast heterogeneity in keloid, a paradigm of fibrotic skin diseases, by using single-cell RNA-seq.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Glucocorticoid-Mediated Induction of Caveolin-1 Disrupts Cytoskeletal Organization, Inhibits Cell Migration and Re-Epithelialization of Non-Healing Wounds

    Scientists demonstrated that both diabetic foot ulcers and venous leg ulcers exhibited global deregulation of cytoskeletal organization in genomic comparison to normal skin and acute wounds.
    [Communications Biology]

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    Plantaricin NC8 αβ Prevents Staphylococcus aureus-Mediated Cytotoxicity and Inflammatory Responses of Human Keratinocytes

    Investigators characterized the antimicrobial effects of PLNC8 αβ on cell signaling pathways and inflammatory responses of human keratinocytes infected with S. aureus.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Hair Growth Promotion by δ-Opioid Receptor Activation

    Topical application of UFP-512 increased the hair length in hair organ cultures and promoted the proliferation and the migration of outer root sheath cells.
    [Biomolecules & Therapeutics]

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    Pharmacoepigenomics Circuits Induced by a Novel Retinoid-Polyamine Conjugate in Human Immortalized Keratinocytes

    Scientists treated HaCaT cells which resembled human epidermis with IC50 concentration of all-trans-Retinoic Acid-spermine conjugate and analyzed their miRNA expression profile.
    [Pharmacogenomics Journal]

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    BRN2 Is a Non-Canonical Melanoma Tumor-Suppressor

    In a BrafV600E PtenF/+ context, researchers showed that BRN2 haplo-insufficiency promoted melanoma initiation and metastasis.
    [Nature Communications]

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    Inherited Duplications of PPP2R3B Predispose to Nevi and Melanoma via a C21orf91-Driven Proliferative Phenotype

    Investigators identified a previously unreported genetic susceptibility to melanoma and melanocytic nevi, familial duplications of gene PPP2R3B.
    [Genetics in Medicine]

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    E3 Ubiquitin Ligase HECTD2 Mediates Melanoma Progression and Immune Evasion

    Identified through screening for cancer-specific endogenous retroviral transcripts, scientists showed that the little-studied E3 ubiquitin ligase HECTD2 exerted dominant control of tumor progression in melanoma.
    [Oncogene]

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    SIRT2 Promotes Murine Melanoma Progression through Natural Killer Cell Inhibition

    Mechanistically, systemic overexpression of SIRT2 reduced the number of tumor-infiltrating natural killer (NK) cells and suppressed NK cell function and proliferation within the tumor microenvironment.
    [Scientific Reports]

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    Cellular Human Tissue-Engineered Skin Substitutes Investigated for Deep and Difficult to Heal Injuries

    Scientists summarize the use of different human cell populations for preclinical and clinical tissue-engineered skin substitutes under research, remarking their strengths and limitations and discuss the future perspectives, which could be useful for wound healing purposes.
    [NPJ Regenerative Medicine]

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    The Utility of Dermal Fibroblasts in Treatment of Skin Disorders: A Paradigm of Recessive Dystrophic Epidermolysis Bullosa

    The authors review literature about ongoing and completed clinical trials that applied fibroblasts and bioengineered fibroblasts as therapeutic agents for various skin disorders.
    [Dermatologic Therapy]

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    INDUSTRY AND POLICY NEWS

    Mallinckrodt Announces US FDA Approval of StrataGraft®

    Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals received FDA approval for its engineered skin product, StrataGraft®, a treatment for serious thermal burns.
    [Mallinckrodt Pharmaceuticals, Inc.]

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