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First published online 12 May 2009
doi: 10.1242/jcs.040956

Journal of Cell Science 122, 1778-1787 (2009)
Published by The Company of Biologists 2009
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{alpha}3β1 integrin in epidermis promotes wound angiogenesis and keratinocyte-to-endothelial-cell crosstalk through the induction of MRP3

Kara Mitchell1,*, Charles Szekeres2,*,{ddagger}, Vincenzo Milano1, Kimberly B. Svenson1, Marit Nilsen-Hamilton3, Jordan A. Kreidberg2,§ and C. Michael DiPersio1,§,¶

1 Center for Cell Biology and Cancer Research, Albany Medical College, Albany, NY 12208, USA
2 Department of Medicine, Children's Hospital, and Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02115, USA
3 Department of Biochemistry, Biophysics and Molecular Biology, Iowa State University, Ames, IA 50011, USA

Author for correspondence (e-mail: dipersm{at}mail.amc.edu)

Accepted 16 February 2009

During cutaneous wound healing, epidermal keratinocytes play essential roles in the secretion of factors that promote angiogenesis. However, specific cues in the wound microenvironment that trigger the production of pro-angiogenic factors by keratinocytes, and the cellular receptors that mediate this response, remain unclear. In this study, we exploited a model of conditional integrin knockout to demonstrate impaired wound angiogenesis in mice that lack {alpha}3β1 integrin in epidermis. In addition, we used genetic and shRNA approaches to determine that {alpha}3β1-integrin deficiency in keratinocytes leads to reduced mRNA and protein expression of the pro-angiogenic factor mitogen-regulated protein 3 (MRP3; also known as PRL2C4), and to demonstrate that this regulation provides a mechanism of keratinocyte-to-endothelial-cell crosstalk that promotes endothelial-cell migration. Finally, we showed that the impaired wound angiogenesis in epidermis-specific {alpha}3-integrin-knockout mice is correlated with reduced expression of MRP3 in wounded epidermis. These findings identify a novel role for {alpha}3β1 integrin in promoting wound angiogenesis through a mechanism of crosstalk from epidermal to endothelial cells, and they implicate MRP3 in this integrin-dependent crosstalk. Such a mechanism represents a novel paradigm for integrin-mediated regulation of wound angiogenesis that extends beyond traditional roles for integrins in cell adhesion and migration.

Key words: Integrin, MRP3 (Prl2c4), Proliferin, Keratinocyte, Wound healing


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