ISSN: 1449-1907International Journal of Medical Sciences
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Int J Med Sci 2020; 17(5):626-631. doi:10.7150/ijms.36484 This issue Cite
Research Paper
Gentisic Acid Stimulates Keratinocyte Proliferation through ERK1/2 Phosphorylation
1. Graduate School of Biotechnology, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
2. College of Life Science, Kyung Hee University, Yongin-si, Gyeonggi-do, Republic of Korea
Abstract
Keratinocyte proliferation is important for skin wound healing. The wound healing process includes blood clotting around the wound, removal of dead cells and pathogens through inflammation, and then re-epithelialization through proliferation and maturation. Proliferation assay was performed on acid natural compounds to identify candidates for natural-derived components of skin injury treatment. We found that gentisic acid promoted high cell proliferation activity compared with other compounds. Gentisic acid improved HaCaT cell proliferation by over 20% in MTT assay. Gentisic acid also had higher healing activity in an in vitro wound healing assay than allantoin as a positive control. Furthermore, we have identified how the treatment of gentisic acid can increase proliferation in the cell. Western blot analysis of proteins in the mitogen-activated protein (MAP) kinase signaling pathway showed that ERK1/2 phosphorylation was increased by gentisic acid treatment. Thus, our study indicates that gentisic acid promotes the proliferation of keratinocyte by phosphorylation of ERK1/2.
Keywords: HaCaT cell, MAP kinase pathway, wound healing, re-epithelialization
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