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- Title
A Kaleidoscope of Keratin Gene Expression and the Mosaic of Its Regulatory Mechanisms.
- Authors
Kalabusheva, Ekaterina P.; Shtompel, Anastasia S.; Rippa, Alexandra L.; Ulianov, Sergey V.; Razin, Sergey V.; Vorotelyak, Ekaterina A.
- Abstract
Keratins are a family of intermediate filament-forming proteins highly specific to epithelial cells. A combination of expressed keratin genes is a defining property of the epithelium belonging to a certain type, organ/tissue, cell differentiation potential, and at normal or pathological conditions. In a variety of processes such as differentiation and maturation, as well as during acute or chronic injury and malignant transformation, keratin expression undergoes switching: an initial keratin profile changes accordingly to changed cell functions and location within a tissue as well as other parameters of cellular phenotype and physiology. Tight control of keratin expression implies the presence of complex regulatory landscapes within the keratin gene loci. Here, we highlight patterns of keratin expression in different biological conditions and summarize disparate data on mechanisms controlling keratin expression at the level of genomic regulatory elements, transcription factors (TFs), and chromatin spatial structure.
- Subjects
KERATIN; GENE expression; KERATINOCYTE differentiation; KALEIDOSCOPES; TRANSCRIPTION factors; CELL differentiation
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2023, Vol 24, Issue 6, p5603
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms24065603