title: Nuclear receptor function in skin health and disease: therapeutic opportunities in the orphan and adopted receptor classes.
abstract: The skin forms a vital barrier between an organism's external environment, providing protection from pathogens and numerous physical and chemical threats. Moreover, the intact barrier is essential to prevent water and electrolyte loss without which terrestrial life could not be maintained. Accordingly, acute disruption of the skin through physical or chemical trauma needs to be repaired timely and efficiently as sustained skin pathologies ranging from mild irritations and inflammation through to malignancy impact considerably on morbidity and mortality. The Nuclear Hormone Receptor Family of transcriptional regulators has proven to be highly valuable targets for addressing a range of pathologies, including metabolic syndrome and cancer. Indeed members of the classic endocrine sub-group, such as the glucocorticoid, retinoid, and Vitamin D receptors, represent mainstay treatment strategies for numerous inflammatory skin disorders, though side effects from prolonged use are common. Emerging evidence has now highlighted important functional roles for nuclear receptors belonging to the adopted and orphan subgroups in skin physiology and patho-physiology. This review will focus on these subgroups and explore the current evidence that suggests these nuclear receptor hold great promise as future stand-alone or complementary drug targets in treating common skin diseases and maintaining skin homeostasis.
authors.affiliation: School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia.
authors.forename: Kelvin
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Yin
authors.affiliation: Dermatology Research Centre, School of Medicine, University of Queensland, Brisbane, QLD, 4072, Australia. a260.smith@qut.edu.au.|School of Biomedical Science, Institute of Health and Biomedical Innovation at the Translational Research Institute, Queensland University of Technology, Woolloongabba, QLD, 4102, Australia. a260.smith@qut.edu.au.
authors.forename: Aaron G
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Smith
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D006262:Health; D006801:Humans; D058990:Molecular Targeted Therapy; D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear / Q000378:metabolism*; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: D018160:Receptors, Cytoplasmic and Nuclear
keywords: LXR; NR4A; Nuclear receptor; Orphan receptors; PPAR; Wound healing