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© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.

Abstract

Keratins are a family of intermediate filament-forming proteins highly specific to epithelial cells. A combination of expressed keratin genes is a defining property of the epithelium belonging to a certain type, organ/tissue, cell differentiation potential, and at normal or pathological conditions. In a variety of processes such as differentiation and maturation, as well as during acute or chronic injury and malignant transformation, keratin expression undergoes switching: an initial keratin profile changes accordingly to changed cell functions and location within a tissue as well as other parameters of cellular phenotype and physiology. Tight control of keratin expression implies the presence of complex regulatory landscapes within the keratin gene loci. Here, we highlight patterns of keratin expression in different biological conditions and summarize disparate data on mechanisms controlling keratin expression at the level of genomic regulatory elements, transcription factors (TFs), and chromatin spatial structure.

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Title
A Kaleidoscope of Keratin Gene Expression and the Mosaic of Its Regulatory Mechanisms
Author
Kalabusheva, Ekaterina P 1 ; Shtompel, Anastasia S 2 ; Rippa, Alexandra L 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Ulianov, Sergey V 2 ; Razin, Sergey V 2   VIAFID ORCID Logo  ; Vorotelyak, Ekaterina A 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

 Cell Biology Laboratory, Koltzov Institute of Developmental Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334 Moscow, Russia 
 Department of Molecular Biology, Faculty of Biology, M.V. Lomonosov Moscow State University, 119234 Moscow, Russia; Laboratory of Structural-Functional Organization of Chromosomes, Institute of Gene Biology, Russian Academy of Sciences, 119334 Moscow, Russia 
First page
5603
Publication year
2023
Publication date
2023
Publisher
MDPI AG
ISSN
16616596
e-ISSN
14220067
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
ProQuest document ID
2791654862
Copyright
© 2023 by the authors. Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.