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Akira Yamauchi
Department Kawasaki Medical School Kawasaki Medical School, Department of Biochemistry, Position Professor |
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| Article types | 原著 |
| Language | English |
| Peer review | Peer reviewed |
| Title | Human skin melanocyte migration towards stromal cell-derived factor-1a demonstrated by optical real-time cell mobility assay: Modulation of their chemotactic ability by a-melanocyte stimulating hormone |
| Journal | Formal name：Experimental Dermatology Abbreviation：EXD ISSN code：1600-0625 |
| Volume, Issue, Page | 22(10),pp.664-667 |
| Author and coauthor | Akira Yamauchi, Christophe Hadjur, Tadahito Takahashi, Itaru Suzuki, Kunitaka Hirose, Yann F. Mahe. |
| Authorship | Lead author,Corresponding author |
| Publication date | 2013/10 |
| Summary | To identify potential regulators of normal human melanocyte behaviour, we have developed an in vitro human melanocyte migration assay, using the optically accessible, real-time cell motility assay device TAXIScan. Coating of the glass surface with an extracellular matrix that served as scaffolding molecule was essential to demonstrate efficient melanocyte migration. Among several chemokines tested, stromal cell-derived factor (SDF)-1α/CXCL12 was the most effective driver of human normal skin melanocytes. Incubation of melanocytes with α-melanocyte-stimulating hormone (MSH) before the assay specifically enhanced CXCR4 expression and consequently chemotaxis towards SDF-1α/CXCL12. These results suggest that α-MSH acts on melanocytes to produce melanin as well as stimulates the cells to migrate to the site where they work through CXCR4 up-regulation, which is a new dynamic mode of action of α-MSH on melanocyte physiology. |
| DOI | DOI: 10.1111/exd.12232 |