Structural and molecular hair abnormalities in trichothiodystrophy
| Autor: | Christine Liang, Katrin R Strehle, Vera H. Price, Emory Menefee, Sebastian Schlücker, John J. DiGiovanna, Kenneth H. Kraemer, Andrea Morris, Kyoko Imoto, Ira W. Levin, Stephen Wincovitch, Deborah Tamura |
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| Rok vydání: | 2006 |
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Male Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Adolescent Trichothiodystrophy Dermatology Spectrum Analysis Raman Biochemistry law.invention Melanin Confocal microscopy law Microscopy otorhinolaryngologic diseases medicine Humans Inverse correlation Child Molecular Biology Brittle hair integumentary system biology Trichorrhexis nodosa Cell Biology medicine.disease biology.organism_classification Child Preschool Microscopy Electron Scanning Female sense organs Hair Diseases Cabello Sulfur Hair |
| Zdroj: | The Journal of investigative dermatology. 126(10) |
| ISSN: | 0022-202X |
| Popis: | We examined hair from 15 patients with trichothiodystrophy (TTD), a rare inherited disorder with brittle, cystine-deficient hair. They had a wide variety of phenotypes, from brittle hair only to severe intellectual impairment and developmental delay. Polarizing light microscopic examination showed alternating light and dark (tiger tail) bands under polarizing microscopy. Confocal microscopy captured structural features of breaks in intact TTD hairs. The autofluorescent appearance was regular and smooth in normal donors and markedly irregular in sections of TTD hairs possibly reflecting abnormalities in melanin distribution. Scanning electron microscopy revealed numerous surface irregularities. All TTD hair samples had reduced sulfur content. We observed an inverse correlation (R(val)=0.9) between sulfur content and percent of hairs with shaft abnormalities (trichoschisis, trichorrhexis nodosa, or ribbon/twist). There was no association between clinical disease severity and percent of abnormal hairs. Raman spectra of hairs from TTD patients and normal donors revealed a larger contribution of energetically less favored disulfide conformers in TTD hairs. Our data indicate that the brittleness of the TTD hair is dependent upon abnormalities at several levels of organization. These changes make TTD hairs excessively prone to breakage and weathering. |
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