Glucocorticoids (GCs) regulate skin homeostasis and combat cutaneous inflammatory diseases; however, adverse effects of chronic GC treatments limit their therapeutic use. GCs bind and activate the GC receptor and the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), transcription factors that recognize identical hormone responsive elements. Whether epidermal MR mediates beneficial or deleterious GC effects is of great interest for improving GC-based skin therapies. MR epidermal knockout mice exhibited increased keratinocyte proliferation and differentiation and showed resistance to GC-induced epidermal thinning. However, crucially, loss of epidermal MR rendered mice more sensitive to inflammatory stimuli and skin damage. MR epidermal knockout mice showed increased susceptibility to phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate-induced inflammation with higher cytokine induction. Likewise, cultured MR epidermal knockout keratinocytes had increased phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate-induced NF-κB activation, highlighting an anti-inflammatory function for MR. GC-induced transcription was reduced in MR epidermal knockout keratinocytes, at least partially due to decreased recruitment of GC receptor to hormone responsive element-containing sequences. Our results support a role for epidermal MR in adult skin homeostasis and demonstrate nonredundant roles for MR and GC receptor in mediating GC actions.
Glucocorticoids (GCs) regulate skin homeostasis and combat cutaneous inflammatory diseases, however, adverse effects of chronic GC treatments limit their therapeutic use.GCs bind and activate the GC receptor (GR) and the mineralocorticoid receptor (MR), transcription factors that recognize identical hormone responsive elements (HREs).Whether epidermal MR mediates beneficial or deleterious GC effects is of great interest for improving GC-based skin therapies. MR epidermal knock-out (MR EKO ) mice exhibited increased keratinocyte proliferation and differentiation and showed resistance to GC-induced epidermal thinning. However, crucially, loss of epidermal MR rendered mice more sensitive to inflammatory stimuli and skin damage. MR EKO mice showed increased susceptibility to PMA-induced inflammation with higher cytokine induction.Likewise, cultured MR EKO keratinocytes had increased PMA-induced NF-B activation, highlighting an anti-inflammatory function for MR. GC-induced transcription was reduced in MR EKO keratinocytes, at least partially due to decreased recruitment of GR to HRE-containing sequences. Our results support a role for epidermal MR in adult skin homeostasis and demonstrate non-redundant roles for MR and GR in mediating GC actions.3
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