The cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) generator choleratoxin is known to promote the growth of sebaceous epithelial cells (sebocytes) in monolayer culture in classical serum-containing media. Now that sebocytes can be grown in serum-free medium, we have examined whether choleratoxin or other cAMP generators are required for differentiation of rat preputial sebocytes in response to specific ligand activators of peroxisome proliferator–activated receptors (PPARs). Unexpectedly, choleratoxin reduced sebocyte proliferation. However, sebocyte differentiation in response to specific PPARα and PPARγ agonists required a cAMP generator such as choleratoxin, and this response was suppressed by a protein kinase A inhibitor. In contrast, the stable prostacyclin analog, carbaprostacyclin (cPGI2), a PPARα,δ agonist that also generates cAMP, stimulated differentiation independently of choleratoxin. Furthermore, unlike the selective PPARα and PPARγ agonists, cPGI2 stimulated both sebocyte DNA synthesis and proliferation. These data are compatible with the evidence that prostacyclin has the additional effect of generating cAMP. In addition, we addressed the possibility that choleratoxin may act as a surrogate for β-adrenergic catecholamines in generating cAMP. In contrast with choleratoxin, both α- and β-adrenergic catecholamines stimulated sebocyte growth and interfered with the choleratoxin effect on differentiation. These data suggest ligand-dependent, complex interactions between cAMP and the other signal transduction pathways involved in sebocyte growth and development.
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1 January 2002
SEBACEOUS EPITHELIAL CELL DIFFERENTIATION REQUIRES CYCLIC ADENOSINE MONOPHOSPHATE GENERATION
ROBERT L. ROSENFIELD,
PATTY PEI-YUN WU,
NANCY CILETTI
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In Vitro Cellular & Developmental Biology - Animal
Vol. 38 • No. 1
January 2002
Vol. 38 • No. 1
January 2002
catecholamines
choleratoxin
peroxisome proliferator–activated receptors
Prostacyclin
sebocytes