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Imbalance of Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain Complexes in the Epidermis Induces Severe Skin Inflammation

No / Accumulation of large-scale mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) deletions and chronic, subclinical inflammation are concomitant during skin aging, thus raising the question of a causal link. To approach this, we generated mice expressing a mutant mitochondrial helicase (K320E-TWINKLE) in the epidermis to accelerate the accumulation of mtDNA deletions in this skin compartment. Mice displayed low amounts of large-scale deletions and a dramatic depletion of mtDNA in the epidermis and showed macroscopic signs of severe skin inflammation. The mtDNA alterations led to an imbalanced stoichiometry of mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes, inducing a unique combination of cytokine expression, causing a severe inflammatory phenotype, with massive immune cell infiltrates already before birth. Altogether, these data unraveled a previously unknown link between an imbalanced stoichiometry of the mitochondrial respiratory chain complexes and skin inflammation and suggest that severe respiratory chain dysfunction, as observed in few cells leading to a mosaic in aged tissues, might be involved in the development of chronic subclinical inflammation. / Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (Wi 889/6-3 to RJW, SFB 829 A14 to RJW, Cologne Excellence Cluster on Cellular Stress Responses in Aging-associated Diseases–CECAD to RJW, BR2304/9-1 to BB, and SFB 829 A1, A5, and Z2 to CMN) and the Center of Molecular Medicine Cologne of the Medical Faculty (CMMC, to RJW)

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:BRADFORD/oai:bradscholars.brad.ac.uk:10454/15612
Date01 September 2017
CreatorsWeiland, D., Brachvogel, B., Hornig-Do, H.-T., Neuhaus, J.F.G., Holzer, T., Tobin, Desmond J., Niessen, C.N., Wiesner, R.J., Baris, O.R.
Source SetsBradford Scholars
LanguageEnglish
Detected LanguageEnglish
TypeArticle, No full-text in the repository

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