Drug Repurposing Reveals mTOR Inhibition as a Promising Strategy for Epidermolysis Bullosa Simplex.

Ragot H, Hovnanian A.

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J Invest Dermatol

2021 Dec 16

Pmid / DOI:

34924185

Abstract

Drug repurposing has the potential to discover new treatments for diseases with high unmet medical needs. Lee et al. (2021) combined transcriptomics and computational analysis of drug-target databases to identify novel therapies for epidermolysis bullosa simplex. Differential gene expression analysis of blister epidermis identified the phosphoinositide 3-kinase/protein kinase B/mTOR signaling pathway as central. A pilot study using a topical mTOR inhibitor showed marked improvement.

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