Abstract
Human epidermal stem cells express higher levels of β1 integrins than their more differentiated daughters, transit amplifying cells. In a search for additional stem and transit cell markers we used proteomics and differential cDNA hybridisation to compare keratinocytes fractionated on the basis of β1 integrin expression. There were remarkably few differences between the two populations and none of the RNAs differed in abundance by more than 2-fold. Nevertheless, proteomics revealed upregulated expression of epidermal fatty acid binding protein (PA-FABP, also known as E-FABP), Annexin II and two keratin related proteins in the transit population. An unknown high molecular mass protein was upregulated in the stem cell population. The upregulation of PA-FABP was confirmed by Northern blotting and conventional and whole mount labelling of human epidermis. We conclude that PA-FABP is a novel marker of epidermal transit amplifying cells.
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