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Inhibition of skin development by targeted expression of a dominant-negative retinoic acid receptor

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ALTHOUGH pharmacological doses of retinoic acid (RA) have a wide variety of actions in vivo1, experimental difficulties have prevented a definitive assignment of its physiological functions. We recently made a dominant-negative retinoic acid receptor (RAR>) by a single amino-acid substitution2 which creates a dominant-negative thyroid hormone receptor3. The mutated RAR efficiently inhibited the endogenous activities of RARs (a, β, y)2. Thus, targeted expression of the mutated receptor should reveal RA functions during organogenesis by blocking RA signalling in the tissues concerned. To address this possibility, we expressed the dominant-negative RAR in the epidermis, a potential target organ of RA4. We report here that the resultant transgenic mice exhibited dramatic suppression of epidermal maturation, demonstrating the requirement of RA in normal skin development.

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  1. Department of Pharmacology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, 606-01, Japan

    Mitinori Saitou, Shuh Narumiya & Akira Kakizuka

  2. Department of Dermatology, Kyoto University Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto, 606-01, Japan

    Toshihiro Tanaka

  3. Fukui Institute for Safety Research, Ono Pharmaceutical, Fukui, 913, Japan

    Satoshi Sugai & Koji Shimouchi

  4. Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Department of Molecular Genetics & Cell Biology, The University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, 60637, USA

    Elaine Fuchs

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Saitou, M., Sugai, S., Tanaka, T. et al. Inhibition of skin development by targeted expression of a dominant-negative retinoic acid receptor. Nature 374, 159–162 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1038/374159a0

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