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Effects of Tenascin C on the Integrity of Extracellular Matrix and Skin Aging

Version 1 : Received: 27 October 2020 / Approved: 28 October 2020 / Online: 28 October 2020 (08:49:54 CET)

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Choi, Y.E.; Song, M.J.; Hara, M.; Imanaka-Yoshida, K.; Lee, D.H.; Chung, J.H.; Lee, S.-T. Effects of Tenascin C on the Integrity of Extracellular Matrix and Skin Aging. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 8693. Choi, Y.E.; Song, M.J.; Hara, M.; Imanaka-Yoshida, K.; Lee, D.H.; Chung, J.H.; Lee, S.-T. Effects of Tenascin C on the Integrity of Extracellular Matrix and Skin Aging. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2020, 21, 8693.

Abstract

Tenascin C (TNC) is an element of the extracellular matrix (ECM) of various tissues, including the skin, and is involved in modulating ECM integrity and cell physiology. Although skin aging is apparently associated with changes in the ECM, little is known about the role of TNC in skin aging. Here we found that Tnc mRNA level was significantly reduced in the skin tissues of aged mice compared with young mice, consistent with reduced TNC protein expression in aged human skin. TNC-large (TNC-L; 330-kDa) and -small (TNC-S; 240-kDa) polypeptides were observed in conditional media from primary dermal fibroblasts. Both recombinant TNC polypeptides, corresponding to TNC-L and TNC-S, increased the expression of type I collagen and reduced the expression of matrix metalloproteinase-1 in fibroblasts. Treatment of fibroblasts with a recombinant TNC polypeptide, corresponding to TNC-L, induced phosphorylation of SMAD2 and SMAD3. TNC increased the level of TGF-β1 mRNA and upregulated the expression of type I collagen by activating the TGF-β signaling pathway. In addition, TNC also promoted the expression of type I collagen in fibroblasts embedded in a three-dimensional collagen matrix. Our findings suggest that TNC contributes to the integrity of ECM in young skin and to prevention of skin aging.

Keywords

aging; collagen; extracellular matrix; fibroblast; skin; tenascin C; TGF-β

Subject

Biology and Life Sciences, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology

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