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Psoriasis-like skin disease and arthritis caused by inducible epidermal deletion of Jun proteins.
Nature - 15 Sept 2005
Zenz Rainer, Eferl Robert, Kenner Lukas, Florin Lore, Hummerich Lars, Mehic Denis, Scheuch Harald, Angel Peter, Tschachler Erwin, Wagner Erwin F
Abstract excerpt
Psoriasis is a frequent, inflammatory disease of skin and joints with considerable morbidity. Here we report that in psoriatic lesions, epidermal keratinocytes have decreased expression of JunB, a gene localized in the psoriasis susceptibility region PSORS6. Likewise, inducible epidermal deletion of JunB and its functional companion c-Jun in adult mice leads (within two weeks) to a phenotype resembling the...
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