Critical roles of irradiance in the regulation of UVB-induced inflammasome activation and skin inflammation in human skin keratinocytes.

J Photochem Photobiol B

Department of Medicine, MacKay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan; Department of Dermatology, MacKay Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan; MacKay Junior College of Medicine, Nursing, and Management; Institute of Biomedical Sciences, Mackay Medical College, New Taipei City, Taiwan. Electronic address:

Published: January 2022

UVB dosage is generally regarded as the most critical factor that determines the severity of UVB-induced skin erythema. However, recent studies have demonstrated that different UV irradiances induce varying biological responses in mouse skin even at constant UV doses. UVB-induced inflammasome activation is particularly observed in human skin keratinocytes, which are classified as immunocompetent cells, but not in mouse skin keratinocytes, which do not express sufficient inflammasome complex components. In human skin UVB-induced sunburn reactions, NLRP1 inflammasome activation critically mediates the inflammatory responses. Here, we employed primary human skin keratinocytes to explore the impact of different irradiances of a constant UVB dosage on inflammasome activation and related inflammatory responses. Our findings indicated that low-irradiance UVB induced relatively stronger NLRP1 inflammasome activation, which manifested as more active IL-1β, IL-18 release, and enhanced procaspase-1 cleavage compared to high-irradiance UVB at the same dose. Irradiance did not influence cell lysis or the expression of inflammasome complex proteins including NLRP1, proIL-1β, proIL-18, procaspase-1, and ASC. The UVB-induced TNF-α and cyclooxygenase-2 expression was also relatively higher in keratinocytes exposed to low-irradiance UVB. Low-irradiance UVB also increased reactive oxygen species production. UVB-triggered signaling analysis revealed that low-irradiance UVB resulted in more prominent p38 and JNK activation. Therefore, our findings indicated that, in addition to the role of total dosage, irradiance crucially modulates UVB-elicited inflammation in human skin keratinocytes, thus providing novel insights into human skin photobiology.

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http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jphotobiol.2021.112373DOI Listing

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