Publication Date:
2011-11-15
Description:
Murine epidermal stem cells undergo alternate cycles of dormancy and activation, fuelling tissue renewal. However, only a subset of stem cells becomes active during each round of morphogenesis, indicating that stem cells coexist in heterogeneous responsive states. Using a circadian-clock reporter-mouse model, here we show that the dormant hair-follicle stem cell niche contains coexisting populations of cells at opposite phases of the clock, which are differentially predisposed to respond to homeostatic cues. The core clock protein Bmal1 modulates the expression of stem cell regulatory genes in an oscillatory manner, to create populations that are either predisposed, or less prone, to activation. Disrupting this clock equilibrium, through deletion of Bmal1 (also known as Arntl) or Per1/2, resulted in a progressive accumulation or depletion of dormant stem cells, respectively. Stem cell arrhythmia also led to premature epidermal ageing, and a reduction in the development of squamous tumours. Our results indicate that the circadian clock fine-tunes the temporal behaviour of epidermal stem cells, and that its perturbation affects homeostasis and the predisposition to tumorigenesis.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Janich, Peggy -- Pascual, Gloria -- Merlos-Suarez, Anna -- Batlle, Eduard -- Ripperger, Jurgen -- Albrecht, Urs -- Cheng, Hai-Ying M -- Obrietan, Karl -- Di Croce, Luciano -- Benitah, Salvador Aznar -- England -- Nature. 2011 Nov 9;480(7376):209-14. doi: 10.1038/nature10649.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Center for Genomic Regulation and UPF, 08003 Barcelona, Spain.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22080954" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
ARNTL Transcription Factors/deficiency/genetics/metabolism
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Animals
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Carcinoma, Squamous Cell/genetics/pathology
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Cell Adhesion/genetics
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Cell Aging
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Cell Cycle/genetics
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Cells, Cultured
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Circadian Clocks/genetics/*physiology
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Circadian Rhythm/genetics/*physiology
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Cues
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Female
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Gene Expression Regulation/genetics
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Hair Follicle/*cytology
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Homeostasis/genetics/physiology
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Male
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Mice
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Mice, Knockout
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Skin Neoplasms/genetics/pathology
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Stem Cell Niche
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Stem Cells/*cytology/metabolism
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Transforming Growth Factor beta/genetics
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Wnt Signaling Pathway/genetics
Print ISSN:
0028-0836
Electronic ISSN:
1476-4687
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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