Shimomura Yutaka, Aoki Noriaki, Rogers Michael A, Langbein Lutz, Schweizer Jürgen, Ito Masaaki
Department of Dermatology, Niigata University School of Medicine, Asahimachi-dori, Niigata, Japan.
J Invest Dermatol. 2002 Feb;118(2):226-31. doi: 10.1046/j.0022-202x.2001.01653.x.
Hair fiber differentiation involves the expression of both hair keratin intermediate filament proteins and their associated proteins, termed keratin-associated proteins. In this study, cDNA clones encoding two novel keratin-associated proteins were isolated from human hair follicle mRNA. The predicted amino acid sequence derived from these clones revealed that these proteins represent members of the human keratin-associated protein 1 family. They show strong sequence homology to two previously described keratin-associated protein 1 family members hKAP1.1 A and hKAP1.1B. We have called these new proteins hKAP1.6 and hKAP1.7, respectively. RNA in situ hybridization studies of human anagen hair follicles using a conserved probe for these four keratin-associated protein 1 members demonstrated the expression of this group in the differentiated portions of the hair cortex.
毛发纤维分化涉及毛发角蛋白中间丝蛋白及其相关蛋白(称为角蛋白相关蛋白)的表达。在本研究中,从人毛囊mRNA中分离出编码两种新型角蛋白相关蛋白的cDNA克隆。从这些克隆推导的预测氨基酸序列表明,这些蛋白代表人角蛋白相关蛋白1家族的成员。它们与之前描述的两个角蛋白相关蛋白1家族成员hKAP1.1A和hKAP1.1B具有很强的序列同源性。我们分别将这些新蛋白命名为hKAP1.6和hKAP1.7。使用针对这四个角蛋白相关蛋白1成员的保守探针,对人生长期毛囊进行RNA原位杂交研究,结果表明该蛋白家族在毛皮质的分化部分表达。