Chinese Journal of Dermatology ›› 2011, Vol. 44 ›› Issue (2): 130-133.

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Screening of genes associated with skin photoaging by microarray analysis

  

  • Received:2010-08-23 Revised:2010-11-11 Online:2011-02-15 Published:2011-02-10

Abstract:

Objective To detect differentially expressed genes between human normal skin and photoaging skin, and to investigate the molecular and biological mechanisms of human skin photoaging at transcriptional level. Methods Full-thickness skin specimens were obtained during full-face rhytidectomy from sun-exposed (anterior ear skin) and sun-protected (retroauricular skin) sites of 6 patients with facial photoaging from 2007 to 2008. Genomic microarray analysis was conducted to identify differentially expressed genes between the two groups of specimens followed by gene-cluster analysis. Results The normalization of microarray data showed that the number of differentially expressed genes was 2163 between skin samples from sun-exposed and sun-protected sites in one patient, significantly higher than that in the other 5 patients (less than 200); therefore, the data from the patient with 2163 differentially expressed genes were excluded from further analysis. Totally, 172 differentially expressed genes were identified with Beadarray chip, including 99 up-regulated genes and 73 down-regulated genes. Based on Genebank research, 118 functionally classified genes were found, which were associated with a series of biological processes, including cell adhesion, receptor regulation, signal transduction, metabolism, and so on. Conclusions There are a lot of differentially expressed genes between human photoaging skin and normal skin. Rhytidectomy may be associated with the differential expression of skin photoaging-related genes.

Key words: Matrix Metalloproteinases