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The distribution of lipocortin I, a steroid-induced inhibitory protein of phospholipase A2, was examined in normal and psoriatic human skin. Using immunoblotting analysis with specific antibody against human lipocortin I purified from human placenta, lipocortin I was detected as a 37 kDa protein in cultured epidermal cells, whole skin and epidermis. In the dermis and stratum corneum, lipocortin I was only weakly detectable by Western blotting. In contrast to normal skin, much less lipocortin I was detected by Western blotting analysis in psoriatic skin. Using immunoperoxidase immunohistochemical analysis, lipocortin I was demonstrated in the cytoplasm of keratinocytes in the upper and middle layers of the epidermis and in some infiltrating cells in the dermis in normal skin. In involved psoriatic skin, by contrast, lipocortin I was almost undetectable in the epidermis, although it was demonstrated in some infiltrating cells in the dermis. No immunostaining of lipocortin I was observed in the stratum corneum of normal or psoriatic skin. These results, together with the finding that phospholipase A2 activity is higher in psoriatic epidermis than in normal epidermis, suggest that lipocortin I plays an important role in the regulation of differentiation and proliferation of epidermal keratinocytes.
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Ikai, K., Shimizu, K., Ando, Y. et al. Immunohistochemical localization of lipocortins in normal and psoriatic human skin. Arch Dermatol Res 285, 296–299 (1993). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00371600
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