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Deciphering “Immaturity-Stemness” in Human Epidermal Stem Cells at the Levels of Protein-Coding and Non-Coding Genomes: A Prospective Computational Approach

Tatiana Vinasco-Sandoval
Gilles Lemaître
Pascal Soularue
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Michèle Martin
Nicolas Fortunel
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The epidermis hosts populations of epithelial stem cells endowed with well-documented renewal and regenerative functions. This tissue thus constitutes a model for exploring the molecular characteristics of stem cells, which remain to date partially characterized at the molecular level in human skin. Our group has investigated the regulatory functions of the KLF4/TGFB1 and the MAD4/MAX/MYC signaling pathways in the control of the immaturity-stemness versus differentiation fate of keratinocyte stem and precursor cells from human interfollicular epidermis. We described that down-modulation of either KLF4 or MXD4/MAD4 using RNA interference tools promoted an augmented stemness cellular status; an effect which was associated with significant transcriptional changes, as assessed by RNA-sequencing. Here, we have implemented a computational approach aimed at integrating the level of the coding genome, comprising the transcripts encoding conventional proteins, and the non-coding genome, with a focus on long non-coding RNAs (lncRNAs). In addition, datasets of micro-RNAs (miRNAs) with validated functions were interrogated in view of identifying miRNAs that could make the link between protein-coding and non-coding transcripts. Putative regulons comprising both coding and long non-coding transcripts were built, which are expected to contain original pro-stemness candidate effectors available for functional validation approaches. In summary, interpretation of our basic functional data together with in silico biomodeling gave rise to a prospective picture of the complex constellation of transcripts regulating the keratinocyte stemness status.

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hal-04517658 , version 1 (22-03-2024)

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Tatiana Vinasco-Sandoval, Gilles Lemaître, Pascal Soularue, Michèle Martin, Nicolas Fortunel. Deciphering “Immaturity-Stemness” in Human Epidermal Stem Cells at the Levels of Protein-Coding and Non-Coding Genomes: A Prospective Computational Approach. International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2024, 25 (6), pp.3353. ⟨10.3390/ijms25063353⟩. ⟨hal-04517658⟩
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