Role Of The Dioxin Receptors (Aryl Hydrocarbon Receptors (AhR)) In The Induction of The Expression of The Matrix Metalloproteinase (MMP) – 1 Enzyme By Tobacco Smoke Extracts (For Professionals)
Two types of aging:
- intrinsic aging
- extrinsic aging: ultraviolet and tobacco smoking
odds ratios for wrinkles in patients with risk factors versus no risk factor individuals
- sun exposure: 2.65
- smoking: 35 PA: 5.8
- age more than 80 years old: 7.5
Daniells score
4UPA=1 year’s wrinkles formation
Part 1
- The presenter did a study in Japanese and German women
- Japanese develop pigment spots and german develop wrinkles
Methodology:
- 53 German women and 18 Japanese women living in the region of Düsseldorf, Germany aged 30 to70 years of age
- 48 Japanese women living in the region of Nagoya, Japan aged 30 to 70
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- -questionnaire: smoking, sunbed, living next to a road
- -skin ageing score
- -blood tests
Results:
- Japanese women have more pigment earlier and German women have more wrinkles at an earlier age
- Smoking increases spots back of hands in German women and wrinkles appear on the upper lip in Japanese women
Part 2
- Molecular changes (in fibroblasts)
Methodology:
- stimulation of cells with tobacco extracts and 30J/cm2 UVA
- collagen
- MMP and TIMPS (protéases inhibitors)
Results
- increase MMP
- collagen synthesis decreased
- tropoelastin
- proteoglycan accumulation
- reduced proteinases inhibitors)
Part 3
- Tobacco has 3800 constituents and include polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAH)
- AhR (Aryl hydrocarbon receptor):
- located in the cytosol
- lipophilic
- links to UVB and xenobiotics (also known as dioxin receptor)
- once linked to particles, translocated to the nucleus where it induces its effect (expression of CYp1A1…)
Study
Methodology:
- done on HaCaT, keratinocytes and fibroblasts with PCR expression (Polymerase Chain Reaction).
Results show that Hexane soluble extracts (Lipophilic) (and to PBS (Phosphate Buffer Saline) water soluble soluble):
- increases MMP1:
- reduces proteoglycans
- reduces procollagen (I and III)
- induces CYP1a1 (Cytochrome P1a1) and CyP1B1 expression (PCR)
- AHR is proven to be the obliged pathway because this response is abolished in AhR knockout mice
- Smoke extracts also induce 7-ethoxyresorufin-o-deethylaser activity (which is also abolished in AhR knockouts)
- Flavanoids 3-methoxy-4-nitroflavone and naphtoflavone blocks the induction of CYP1B1 and MMP-1.
Conclusion: the AhR pathway may be pathogenetically involved in extrinsic skin aging.
Contributors:
Dr Christophe HSU – dermatologist. Geneva, Switzerland
Morita A, Aging and Photoaging – 22nd World Congress of Dermatology (WCD) – Seoul, South Korea