TY - JOUR
T1 - Extracellular and Non-Chaperone Function of Heat Shock Protein−90α Is Required for Skin Wound Healing
AU - Bhatia, Ayesha
AU - O'Brien, Kathryn
AU - Guo, Jiacong
AU - Lincoln, Vadim
AU - Kajiwara, Chiaki
AU - Chen, Mei
AU - Woodley, David T.
AU - Udono, Heiichiro
AU - Li, Wei
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank the University of Southern California Pathology Core for assistance of histological analyses and the Proteomics Core (Ebrahim Zandi) for mass spectrometry analysis. This study is supported by National Institutes of Health grants GM066193 and GM067100 (to WL), AR46538 (to DTW), AR33625 (MC and DTW), and Veterans Affairs Merit Award (to DTW).
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© 2017 The Authors
PY - 2018/2
Y1 - 2018/2
N2 - Despite years of effort and investment, there are few topical or systemic medications for skin wounds. Identifying natural drivers of wound healing could facilitate the development of new and effective treatments. When skin is injured, there is a massive increase of heat shock protein (Hsp) 90α inside the wound bed. The precise role for these Hsp90α proteins, however, was unclear. The availability of a unique mouse model that lacked the intracellular ATPase-driven chaperoning, but spared the extracellular fragment-5−supported pro-motility function of Hsp90α allowed us to test specifically the role of the non-chaperone function of Hsp90α in normal wound closure. We found that the chaperone-defective Hsp90α-Δ mutant mice showed similar wound closure rate as the wild-type Hsp90α mice. We generated recombinant proteins from the mouse cDNAs encoding the Hsp90α-Δ and wild-type Hsp90α. Topical application of Hsp90α-Δ mutant protein promoted wound closure as effectively as the full-length wild-type Hsp90α protein. More importantly, selective inhibition of the extracellular Hsp90α-Δ protein function by a monoclonal antibody targeting the fragment-5 region disrupted normal wound closure in both wild-type Hsp90α and Hsp90α-Δ mice. Thus, this study provides direct support for non-chaperone, extracellular Hsp90α as a potential driver for normal wound closure.
AB - Despite years of effort and investment, there are few topical or systemic medications for skin wounds. Identifying natural drivers of wound healing could facilitate the development of new and effective treatments. When skin is injured, there is a massive increase of heat shock protein (Hsp) 90α inside the wound bed. The precise role for these Hsp90α proteins, however, was unclear. The availability of a unique mouse model that lacked the intracellular ATPase-driven chaperoning, but spared the extracellular fragment-5−supported pro-motility function of Hsp90α allowed us to test specifically the role of the non-chaperone function of Hsp90α in normal wound closure. We found that the chaperone-defective Hsp90α-Δ mutant mice showed similar wound closure rate as the wild-type Hsp90α mice. We generated recombinant proteins from the mouse cDNAs encoding the Hsp90α-Δ and wild-type Hsp90α. Topical application of Hsp90α-Δ mutant protein promoted wound closure as effectively as the full-length wild-type Hsp90α protein. More importantly, selective inhibition of the extracellular Hsp90α-Δ protein function by a monoclonal antibody targeting the fragment-5 region disrupted normal wound closure in both wild-type Hsp90α and Hsp90α-Δ mice. Thus, this study provides direct support for non-chaperone, extracellular Hsp90α as a potential driver for normal wound closure.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jid.2017.08.043
DO - 10.1016/j.jid.2017.08.043
M3 - Article
C2 - 28942361
AN - SCOPUS:85041680722
VL - 138
SP - 423
EP - 433
JO - Journal of Investigative Dermatology
JF - Journal of Investigative Dermatology
SN - 0022-202X
IS - 2
ER -