Discrimination of epithelium-like and fibroblast-like phenotypes derived from ethanol-treated immortalised human gingival keratinocytes in epithelial equivalents

Cell and Tissue Research
Eva MüssigPascal Tomakidi

Abstract

Ethanol treatment of immortalised human gingival keratinocytes (IHGK) yields in an epithelium-like (EPI) and fibroblast-like (FIB) phenotype. With respect to the stratified gingival epithelium, putative structural and molecular differences assigning cells to these phenotypes have not, to date, been analysed in a three-dimensional tissue/epithelial context. Therefore, we generated epithelial equivalents (EEs) in organotypic co-cultures of IHGK, EPI and FIB cells for 1 and 2 weeks and conducted protein and gene expression studies on the EEs for epithelial biomarkers including keratin K14, integrin subunits alpha6 and beta1, E-cadherin, and mesenchymal vimentin. As in the EEs of IHGK and EPI, indirect immunofluorescence revealed continuous expression of beta1 integrin in EEs of FIB cells. However, FIB cells exhibited a significant down-regulation in K14 and integrin alpha6 protein and a loss of E-cadherin at week 2, whereas vimentin was increased. FIB EEs were devoid of transcripts for E-cadherin at both time points, although transcription of the other genes remained constant in all phenotypes. Thus, the FIB phenotype exhibited a poor epithelial structure coinciding with disturbances in the expression of epithelial biomarkers and ...Continue Reading

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