Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Targeting the transcription factor HES1 by L-menthol restores protein phosphatase 6 in keratinocytes in models of psoriasis

  • Zhikai Wang,
  • Yang Sun,
  • Fangzhou Lou,
  • Jing Bai,
  • Hong Zhou,
  • Xiaojie Cai,
  • Libo Sun,
  • Qianqian Yin,
  • Sibei Tang,
  • Yue Wu,
  • Li Fan,
  • Zhenyao Xu,
  • Hong Wang,
  • Xiaoyu Hu,
  • Honglin Wang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-35565-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Psoriasis is an inflammatory disease which has proven difficult to cure. Prof. Honglin Wang’s team describes L-menthol for treating models of psoriasis and uncovers the dysfunctional HES1- IGBP1-PP6 axis in psoriasis pathology by using L-menthol as a probe.