Elaine Fuchs

Publication List Details

Period

1998 - 2007

Number

75

Co-Authors

Elaine Fuchs-Stem Cells and Their Lineages in Skin (2007)

Fuchs, Elaine

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Elaine Fuchs-Stem Cells and Their Lineages in Skin (2007)

Fuchs, Elaine

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Molecular Dissection of Mesenchymal–Epithelial Interactions in the Hair Follicle (2005)

Michael Rendl, Lisa Lewis, Elaine Fuchs

Determining the molecular signature of the cells that orchestrate hair follicle growth generates new insights that will aid in understanding the normal biology and disease states of this tissue.

Molecular Dissection of Mesenchymal–Epithelial Interactions in the Hair Follicle (2005)

Michael Rendl, Lisa Lewis, Elaine Fuchs

De novo hair follicle formation in embryonic skin and new hair growth in adult skin are initiated when specialized mesenchymal dermal papilla (DP) cells send cues to multipotent epithelial stem...

A Signaling Pathway Involving TGF-β2 and Snail in Hair Follicle Morphogenesis (2005)

Colin Jamora, Pedro Lee, Pawel Kocieniewski, Mohamad Azhar, Ryoichi Hosokawa, Yang Chai, ...

The study of hair follicle morphogenesis provides insights into how cells within a sheet can be triggered to proliferate, remodel, and form buds - a recurring theme in development.

A Signaling Pathway Involving TGF-β2 and Snail in Hair Follicle Morphogenesis (2005)

Colin Jamora, Pedro Lee, Pawel Kocieniewski, Mohamad Azhar, Ryoichi Hosokawa, Yang Chai, ...

In a common theme of organogenesis, certain cells within a multipotent epithelial sheet exchange signals with their neighbors and develop into a bud structure. Using hair bud morphogenesis as a...

Role of E-Cadherin Homophilic Contacts in the Inhibition of Cell Growth of Primary Breast Cells (1998)

Perez-Morano, Mirna, Fuchs, Elaine

Cadherins the primary regulators of the overall state of epithelial cell contact and facilitate an appropriate cytoskeletal organization and the establishment of many other kinds of cell interactions...

Role of E-Cadherin Homophilic Contacts in the Inhibition of Cell Growth of Primary Breast Cells (1998)

Perez-Moreno, Mirna, Fuchs, Elaine

At present, it remains obscure whether E-cadherin directly transfers growth inhibitory signals to the cells, or if other types of molecular cell interactions indirectly influenced by the...

The magical touch: Genome targeting in epidermal stem cells induced by tamoxifen application to mouse skin

Vasioukhin, Valeri, Degenstein, Linda, Wise, Bart, Fuchs, Elaine

Gene knockout technology has provided a powerful tool for functional analyses of genes expressed preferentially in a particular tissue. Given marked similarities between human and mouse skin, such...

Transgenic studies with a keratin promoter-driven growth hormone transgene: Prospects for gene therapy

Wang, Xiaoming, Zinkel, Sandra, Polonsky, Kenneth, Fuchs, Elaine

Keratinocytes are potentially appealing vehicles for the delivery of secreted gene products because they can be transferred to human skin by the relatively simple procedure of grafting. Adult human...

A dysfunctional desmin mutation in a patient with severe generalized myopathy

Muñoz-Mármol, Ana M., Strasser, Geraldine, Isamat, Marcos, Coulombe, Pierre A., Yang, Yanmin, Roca, Xavier, ...

Mice lacking desmin produce muscle fibers with Z disks and normal sarcomeric organization. However, the muscles are mechanically fragile and degenerate upon repeated contractions. We report here a...

Identification and dissection of an enhancer controlling epithelial gene expression in skin

Sinha, Satrajit, Fuchs, Elaine

Keratins 14 and 5 are the structural hallmarks of the basal keratinocytes of the epidermis and outer root sheath (ORS) of the hair follicle. Their genes are controlled in a tissue-specific manner and...

Defining the Regulatory Factors Required for Epidermal Gene Expression

Sinha, Satrajit, Degenstein, Linda, Copenhaver, Cedith, Fuchs, Elaine

Keratins K5 and K14 are the hallmarks of mitotically active keratinocytes of stratified epithelia. They are transcribed at a high level and in a tissue-specific manner, enabling us to use the K14...

The LEF1/β-catenin complex activates movo1, a mouse homolog of Drosophila ovo required for epidermal appendage differentiation

Li, Baoan, Mackay, Douglas R., Dai, Qian, Li, Tony W. H., Nair, Mahalakshmi, Fallahi, Magid, ...

Drosophila ovo/svb (dovo) is required for epidermal cuticle/denticle differentiation and is genetically downstream of the wg signaling pathway. Similarly, a mouse homolog of dovo, movo1, is required...

Dissection of a Complex Enhancer Element: Maintenance of Keratinocyte Specificity but Loss of Differentiation Specificity

Kaufman, Charles K., Sinha, Satrajit, Bolotin, Diana, Fan, Jie, Fuchs, Elaine

In this report, we explored the mechanisms underlying keratinocyte-specific and differentiation-specific gene expression in the skin. We have identified five keratinocyte-specific, open chromatin...

Protection of the intestinal mucosa by intraepithelial γδ T cells

Chen, Yaping, Chou, Kevin, Fuchs, Elaine, Havran, Wendy L., Boismenu, Richard

γδ intraepithelial T lymphocytes (IEL) represent a major T cell population within the intestine of unclear functional relevance. The role of intestinal γδ IEL was evaluated in the dextran sodium...

Targeted Disruption of the Murine zyxin Gene

Hoffman, Laura M., Nix, David A., Benson, Beverly, Boot-Hanford, Ray, Gustafsson, Erika, Jamora, Colin, ...

Zyxin is an evolutionarily conserved protein that is concentrated at sites of cell adhesion, where it associates with members of the Enabled (Ena)/vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP) family...

GATA-3: an unexpected regulator of cell lineage determination in skin

Kaufman, Charles K., Zhou, Ping, Amalia Pasolli, H., Rendl, Michael, Bolotin, Diana, Lim, Kim-Chew, ...

Multipotent skin stem cells give rise to epidermis and its appendages, including the hair follicle. The Lef-1/Tcf family of Wnt-regulated transcription factors plays a major role in specification of...

Differential regulation of midbrain dopaminergic neuron development by Wnt-1, Wnt-3a, and Wnt-5a

Castelo-Branco, Gonçalo, Wagner, Joseph, Rodriguez, Francisco J., Kele, Julianna, Sousa, Kyle, Rawal, Nina, ...

The Wnts are a family of glycoproteins that regulate cell proliferation, fate decisions, and differentiation. In our study, we examined the contribution of Wnts to the development of ventral midbrain...

Stem cells of the skin epithelium

Alonso, Laura, Fuchs, Elaine

Tissue stem cells form the cellular base for organ homeostasis and repair. Stem cells have the unusual ability to renew themselves over the lifetime of the organ while producing daughter cells that...

The ovo gene required for cuticle formation and oogenesis in flies is involved in hair formation and spermatogenesis in mice

Dai, Xing, Schonbaum, Christopher, Degenstein, Linda, Bai, Wenyu, Mahowald, Anthony, Fuchs, Elaine

The Drosophila svb/ovo gene gives rise to differentially expressed transcripts encoding a zinc finger protein. svb/ovo has two distinct genetic functions: shavenbaby (svb) is required for proper...

Conditional targeting of E-cadherin in skin: Insights into hyperproliferative and degenerative responses

Tinkle, Christopher L., Lechler, Terry, Pasolli, H. Amalia, Fuchs, Elaine

Loss of E-cadherin has been associated with human cancers, and yet in the early mouse embryo and the lactating mammary gland, the E-cadherin null state results in tissue dysfunction and cell death....

A Signaling Pathway Involving TGF-β2 and Snail in Hair Follicle Morphogenesis

Jamora, Colin, Lee, Pedro, Kocieniewski, Pawel, Azhar, Mohamad, Hosokawa, Ryoichi, Chai, Yang, ...

In a common theme of organogenesis, certain cells within a multipotent epithelial sheet exchange signals with their neighbors and develop into a bud structure. Using hair bud morphogenesis as a...

Defining the impact of β-catenin/Tcf transactivation on epithelial stem cells

Lowry, William E., Blanpain, Cedric, Nowak, Jonathan A., Guasch, Geraldine, Lewis, Lisa, Fuchs, Elaine

Wnt signaling has been implicated in stem cell (SC) biology, but little is known about how stabilized β-catenin functions within native SC niches. We address this by defining the impact of...

Molecular Dissection of Mesenchymal–Epithelial Interactions in the Hair Follicle

Rendl, Michael, Lewis, Lisa, Fuchs, Elaine

De novo hair follicle formation in embryonic skin and new hair growth in adult skin are initiated when specialized mesenchymal dermal papilla (DP) cells send cues to multipotent epithelial stem...

Sgk3 links growth factor signaling to maintenance of progenitor cells in the hair follicle

Alonso, Laura, Okada, Hitoshi, Pasolli, Hilda Amalia, Wakeham, Andrew, You-Ten, Annick Itie, Mak, Tak W., ...

Tyrosine kinase growth factor receptor signaling influences proliferation, survival, and apoptosis. Hair follicles undergo cycles of proliferation and apoptotic regression, offering an excellent...

Asymmetric cell divisions promote stratification and differentiation of mammalian skin

Lechler, Terry, Fuchs, Elaine

The epidermis is a stratified squamous epithelium forming the barrier that excludes harmful microbes and retains body fluids. To perform these functions, proliferative basal cells in the innermost...

Tcf3 and Lef1 regulate lineage differentiation of multipotent stem cells in skin

Merrill, Bradley J., Gat, Uri, DasGupta, Ramanuj, Fuchs, Elaine

In skin, multipotent stem cells generate the keratinocytes of the epidermis, sebaceous gland, and hair follicles. In this paper, we show that Tcf3 and Lef1 control these differentiation lineages. In...

Links between α-catenin, NF-κB, and squamous cell carcinoma in skin

Kobielak, Agnieszka, Fuchs, Elaine

Cancers display a diverse set of cellular defects, which are thought to be elicited by multiple genetic mutations. In this study, we show that when a single adherens junction protein, α-catenin, is...

Protein Tyrosine Kinase 6 Negatively Regulates Growth and Promotes Enterocyte Differentiation in the Small Intestine

Haegebarth, Andrea, Bie, Wenjun, Yang, Ruyan, Crawford, Susan E., Vasioukhin, Valeri, Fuchs, Elaine, ...

Protein tyrosine kinase 6 (PTK6) (also called Brk or Sik) is an intracellular tyrosine kinase that is expressed in breast cancer and normal epithelial linings. In adult mice, PTK6 expression is high...

The magical touch: Genome targeting in epidermal stem cells induced by tamoxifen application to mouse skin

Vasioukhin, Valeri, Degenstein, Linda, Wise, Bart, Fuchs, Elaine

Gene knockout technology has provided a powerful tool for functional analyses of genes expressed preferentially in a particular tissue. Given marked similarities between human and mouse skin, such...

Transgenic studies with a keratin promoter-driven growth hormone transgene: Prospects for gene therapy

Wang, Xiaoming, Zinkel, Sandra, Polonsky, Kenneth, Fuchs, Elaine

Keratinocytes are potentially appealing vehicles for the delivery of secreted gene products because they can be transferred to human skin by the relatively simple procedure of grafting. Adult human...

A dysfunctional desmin mutation in a patient with severe generalized myopathy

Muñoz-Mármol, Ana M., Strasser, Geraldine, Isamat, Marcos, Coulombe, Pierre A., Yang, Yanmin, Roca, Xavier, ...

Mice lacking desmin produce muscle fibers with Z disks and normal sarcomeric organization. However, the muscles are mechanically fragile and degenerate upon repeated contractions. We report here a...

Identification and dissection of an enhancer controlling epithelial gene expression in skin

Sinha, Satrajit, Fuchs, Elaine

Keratins 14 and 5 are the structural hallmarks of the basal keratinocytes of the epidermis and outer root sheath (ORS) of the hair follicle. Their genes are controlled in a tissue-specific manner and...

Defining the Regulatory Factors Required for Epidermal Gene Expression

Sinha, Satrajit, Degenstein, Linda, Copenhaver, Cedith, Fuchs, Elaine

Keratins K5 and K14 are the hallmarks of mitotically active keratinocytes of stratified epithelia. They are transcribed at a high level and in a tissue-specific manner, enabling us to use the K14...

The LEF1/β-catenin complex activates movo1, a mouse homolog of Drosophila ovo required for epidermal appendage differentiation

Li, Baoan, Mackay, Douglas R., Dai, Qian, Li, Tony W. H., Nair, Mahalakshmi, Fallahi, Magid, ...

Drosophila ovo/svb (dovo) is required for epidermal cuticle/denticle differentiation and is genetically downstream of the wg signaling pathway. Similarly, a mouse homolog of dovo, movo1, is required...

Dissection of a Complex Enhancer Element: Maintenance of Keratinocyte Specificity but Loss of Differentiation Specificity

Kaufman, Charles K., Sinha, Satrajit, Bolotin, Diana, Fan, Jie, Fuchs, Elaine

In this report, we explored the mechanisms underlying keratinocyte-specific and differentiation-specific gene expression in the skin. We have identified five keratinocyte-specific, open chromatin...

Protection of the intestinal mucosa by intraepithelial γδ T cells

Chen, Yaping, Chou, Kevin, Fuchs, Elaine, Havran, Wendy L., Boismenu, Richard

γδ intraepithelial T lymphocytes (IEL) represent a major T cell population within the intestine of unclear functional relevance. The role of intestinal γδ IEL was evaluated in the dextran sodium...

Targeted Disruption of the Murine zyxin Gene

Hoffman, Laura M., Nix, David A., Benson, Beverly, Boot-Hanford, Ray, Gustafsson, Erika, Jamora, Colin, ...

Zyxin is an evolutionarily conserved protein that is concentrated at sites of cell adhesion, where it associates with members of the Enabled (Ena)/vasodilator-stimulated phosphoprotein (VASP) family...

GATA-3: an unexpected regulator of cell lineage determination in skin

Kaufman, Charles K., Zhou, Ping, Amalia Pasolli, H., Rendl, Michael, Bolotin, Diana, Lim, Kim-Chew, ...

Multipotent skin stem cells give rise to epidermis and its appendages, including the hair follicle. The Lef-1/Tcf family of Wnt-regulated transcription factors plays a major role in specification of...

Differential regulation of midbrain dopaminergic neuron development by Wnt-1, Wnt-3a, and Wnt-5a

Castelo-Branco, Gonçalo, Wagner, Joseph, Rodriguez, Francisco J., Kele, Julianna, Sousa, Kyle, Rawal, Nina, ...

The Wnts are a family of glycoproteins that regulate cell proliferation, fate decisions, and differentiation. In our study, we examined the contribution of Wnts to the development of ventral midbrain...

Stem cells of the skin epithelium

Alonso, Laura, Fuchs, Elaine

Tissue stem cells form the cellular base for organ homeostasis and repair. Stem cells have the unusual ability to renew themselves over the lifetime of the organ while producing daughter cells that...

Tcf3 and Lef1 regulate lineage differentiation of multipotent stem cells in skin

Merrill, Bradley J., Gat, Uri, DasGupta, Ramanuj, Fuchs, Elaine

In skin, multipotent stem cells generate the keratinocytes of the epidermis, sebaceous gland, and hair follicles. In this paper, we show that Tcf3 and Lef1 control these differentiation lineages. In...

The ovo gene required for cuticle formation and oogenesis in flies is involved in hair formation and spermatogenesis in mice

Dai, Xing, Schonbaum, Christopher, Degenstein, Linda, Bai, Wenyu, Mahowald, Anthony, Fuchs, Elaine

The Drosophila svb/ovo gene gives rise to differentially expressed transcripts encoding a zinc finger protein. svb/ovo has two distinct genetic functions: shavenbaby (svb) is required for proper...

Conditional targeting of E-cadherin in skin: Insights into hyperproliferative and degenerative responses

Tinkle, Christopher L., Lechler, Terry, Pasolli, H. Amalia, Fuchs, Elaine

Loss of E-cadherin has been associated with human cancers, and yet in the early mouse embryo and the lactating mammary gland, the E-cadherin null state results in tissue dysfunction and cell death....

A Signaling Pathway Involving TGF-β2 and Snail in Hair Follicle Morphogenesis

Jamora, Colin, Lee, Pedro, Kocieniewski, Pawel, Azhar, Mohamad, Hosokawa, Ryoichi, Chai, Yang, ...

In a common theme of organogenesis, certain cells within a multipotent epithelial sheet exchange signals with their neighbors and develop into a bud structure. Using hair bud morphogenesis as a...

Defining the impact of β-catenin/Tcf transactivation on epithelial stem cells

Lowry, William E., Blanpain, Cedric, Nowak, Jonathan A., Guasch, Geraldine, Lewis, Lisa, Fuchs, Elaine

Wnt signaling has been implicated in stem cell (SC) biology, but little is known about how stabilized β-catenin functions within native SC niches. We address this by defining the impact of...

Loss of Kindlin-1, a Human Homolog of the Caenorhabditis elegans Actin–Extracellular-Matrix Linker Protein UNC-112, Causes Kindler Syndrome

Siegel, Dawn H., Ashton, Gabrielle H. S., Penagos, Homero G., Lee, James V., Feiler, Heidi S., Wilhelmsen, Kirk C., ...

Kindler syndrome is an autosomal recessive disorder characterized by neonatal blistering, sun sensitivity, atrophy, abnormal pigmentation, and fragility of the skin. Linkage and homozygosity analysis...

Molecular Dissection of Mesenchymal–Epithelial Interactions in the Hair Follicle

Rendl, Michael, Lewis, Lisa, Fuchs, Elaine

De novo hair follicle formation in embryonic skin and new hair growth in adult skin are initiated when specialized mesenchymal dermal papilla (DP) cells send cues to multipotent epithelial stem...

Links between α-catenin, NF-κB, and squamous cell carcinoma in skin

Kobielak, Agnieszka, Fuchs, Elaine

Cancers display a diverse set of cellular defects, which are thought to be elicited by multiple genetic mutations. In this study, we show that when a single adherens junction protein, α-catenin, is...

Protein Tyrosine Kinase 6 Negatively Regulates Growth and Promotes Enterocyte Differentiation in the Small Intestine

Haegebarth, Andrea, Bie, Wenjun, Yang, Ruyan, Crawford, Susan E., Vasioukhin, Valeri, Fuchs, Elaine, ...

Protein tyrosine kinase 6 (PTK6) (also called Brk or Sik) is an intracellular tyrosine kinase that is expressed in breast cancer and normal epithelial linings. In adult mice, PTK6 expression is high...

Basal Cells Are a Multipotent Progenitor Capable of Renewing the Bronchial Epithelium

Hong, Kyung U., Reynolds, Susan D., Watkins, Simon, Fuchs, Elaine, Stripp, Barry R.

Commitment of the pulmonary epithelium to bronchial and bronchiolar airway lineages occurs during the transition from pseudoglandular to cannalicular phases of lung development, suggesting that...

Canonical notch signaling functions as a commitment switch in the epidermal lineage

Blanpain, Cédric, Lowry, William E., Pasolli, H. Amalia, Fuchs, Elaine

Mammalian epidermis consists of a basal layer of proliferative progenitors that gives rise to multiple differentiating layers to provide a waterproof envelope covering the skin surface. To accomplish...

Mice cloned from skin cells

Li, Jinsong, Greco, Valentina, Guasch, Géraldine, Fuchs, Elaine, Mombaerts, Peter

Adult stem cells represent unique populations of undifferentiated cells with self-renewal capacity. In many tissues, stem cells divide less often than their progeny. It has been widely speculated,...

AP-2α: a regulator of EGF receptor signaling and proliferation in skin epidermis

Wang, Xuan, Bolotin, Diana, Chu, David H., Polak, Lisa, Williams, Trevor, Fuchs, Elaine

AP-2 transcription factors have been implicated in epidermal biology, but their functional significance has remained elusive. Using conditional knockout technology, we show that AP-2α is essential...

Desmoplakin: an unexpected regulator of microtubule organization in the epidermis

Lechler, Terry, Fuchs, Elaine

Despite their importance in cell shape and polarity generation, the organization of microtubules in differentiated cells and tissues remains relatively unexplored in mammals. We generated transgenic...

Focal adhesion kinase modulates tension signaling to control actin and focal adhesion dynamics

Schober, Markus, Raghavan, Srikala, Nikolova, Maria, Polak, Lisa, Pasolli, H. Amalia, Beggs, Hilary E., ...

In response to αβ1 integrin signaling, transducers such as focal adhesion kinase (FAK) become activated, relaying to specific machineries and triggering distinct cellular responses. By...

Loss of a quiescent niche but not follicle stem cells in the absence of bone morphogenetic protein signaling

Kobielak, Krzysztof, Stokes, Nicole, De La Cruz, June, Polak, Lisa, Fuchs, Elaine

During the hair cycle, follicle stem cells (SCs) residing in a specialized niche called the “bulge” undergo bouts of quiescence and activation to cyclically regenerate new hairs. Developmental...

Sgk3 links growth factor signaling to maintenance of progenitor cells in the hair follicle

Alonso, Laura, Okada, Hitoshi, Pasolli, Hilda Amalia, Wakeham, Andrew, You-Ten, Annick Itie, Mak, Tak W., ...

Tyrosine kinase growth factor receptor signaling influences proliferation, survival, and apoptosis. Hair follicles undergo cycles of proliferation and apoptotic regression, offering an excellent...

Coordinating cytoskeletal tracks to polarize cellular movements

Kodama, Atsuko, Lechler, Terry, Fuchs, Elaine

For many years after the discovery of actin filaments and microtubules, it was widely assumed that their polymerization, organization, and functions were largely distinct. However, in recent years it...

Progressive Kidney Degeneration in Mice Lacking Tensin

Lo, Su Hao, Yu, Qian-Chun, Degenstein, Linda, Chen, Lan Bo, Fuchs, Elaine

Tensin is a focal adhesion phosphoprotein that binds to F-actin and contains a functional Src homology 2 domain. To explore the biological functions of tensin, we cloned the mouse tensin gene,...

Functional Differences between Keratins of Stratified and Simple Epithelia

Hutton, Elizabeth, Paladini, Rudolph D., Yu, Qian-Chun, Yen, Mei, Coulombe, Pierre A., Fuchs, Elaine

Dividing populations of stratified and simple epithelial tissues express keratins 5 and 14, and keratins 8 and 18, respectively. It has been suggested that these keratins form a mechanical framework...

Defining the Interactions Between Intermediate Filaments and Desmosomes

Smith, Elizabeth A., Fuchs, Elaine

Desmoplakin (DP), plakoglobin (PG), and plakophilin 1 (PP1) are desmosomal components lacking a transmembrane domain, thus making them candidate linker proteins for connecting intermediate filaments...

An Unexpected Localization of Basonuclin in the Centrosome, Mitochondria, and Acrosome of Developing Spermatids

Yang, Zhao-hui, Gallicano, G. Ian, Yu, Qian-Chun, Fuchs, Elaine

Basonuclin is a zinc finger protein that was thought to be restricted to keratinocytes of stratified squamous epithelia. In epidermis, basonuclin is associated with the nuclei of mitotically active...

A developmental conundrum: a stabilized form of β-catenin lacking the transcriptional activation domain triggers features of hair cell fate in epidermal cells and epidermal cell fate in hair follicle cells

DasGupta, Ramanuj, Rhee, Horace, Fuchs, Elaine

Wnt signaling orchestrates morphogenetic processes in which changes in gene expression are associated with dramatic changes in cell organization within developing tissue/organss. Upon signaling,...