A Role for Chromosomal Protein HMGN1 in Corneal Maturation

Overview

Journal Differentiation

Publisher Elsevier

Specialties Cell Biology
Reproductive Medicine

Date 2006 Feb 10

PMID 16466397

Citations 21

Authors

Yehudit Birger

Janine Davis

Takashi Furusawa

Eyal Rand

Joram Piatigorsky

Michael Bustin

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Abstract

Corneal differentiation and maturation are associated with major changes in the expression levels of numerous genes, including those coding for the chromatin-binding high-mobility group (HMG) proteins. Here we report that HMGN1, a nucleosome-binding protein that alters the structure and activity of chromatin, affects the development of the corneal epithelium in mice. The corneal epithelium of Hmgn1(-/-) mice is thin, has a reduced number of cells, is poorly stratified, is depleted of suprabasal wing cells, and its most superficial cell layer blisters. In mature Hmgn1(-/-)mice, the basal cells retain the ovoid shape of immature cells, and rest directly on the basal membrane which is disorganized. Gene expression was modified in Hmgn1(-/-) corneas: glutathione-S-transferase (GST)alpha 4 and GST omega 1, epithelial layer-specific markers, were selectively reduced while E-cadherin and alpha-, beta-, and gamma-catenin, components of adherens junctions, were increased. Immunofluorescence analysis reveals a complete co-localization of HMGN1 and p 63 in small clusters of basal corneal epithelial cells of wild-type mice, and an absence of p 63 expressing cells in the central region of the Hmgn1(-/-) cornea. We suggest that interaction of HMGN1 with chromatin modulates the fidelity of gene expression and affects corneal development and maturation.

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