Novel, postnatal manifestation of an epidermal barrier defect in a mouse model of isolated sulfite oxidase deficiency
biorxiv(2024)
摘要
Sulfite oxidase deficiency is a rare inborn error in metabolism leading to early childhood death due to rapidly progressing neurodegeneration. A new mouse model of sulfite oxidase deficiency carrying a homozygous deletion in the Suox gene resembles the human pathology in terms of neonatal death and elevation of sulfite and thiosulfate in plasma and urine, respectively. Homozygous Suox -/- mice are initially born healthy, display growth retardation starting at postnatal day 4 and die in average at day 9.6. Here we report that Suox -/- mice develop dry and scaly skin early postnatally, showing that sulfite oxidase is essential to maintain a functional skin barrier after birth. At postnatal day 5 Suox -/- mice develop altered epidermal morphology and dysregulated early and late keratinocyte differentiation accompanied by increased stress response. We propose a sulfite-induced cleavage of disulfide bonds in key epidermal proteins essential for a functional barrier.
### Competing Interest Statement
The authors have declared no competing interest.
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