Targeting NRF2 to Promote Epithelial Repair

Overview

Journal Biochem Soc Trans

Specialty Biochemistry

Date 2023 Feb 10

PMID 36762597

Authors

Paul Hiebert

Sabine Werner

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Abstract

The transcription factor NRF2 is well known as a master regulator of the cellular stress response. As such, activation of NRF2 has gained widespread attention for its potential to prevent tissue injury, but also as a possible therapeutic approach to promote repair processes. While NRF2 activation affects most or even all cell types, its effect on epithelial cells during repair processes has been particularly well studied. In response to tissue injury, these cells proliferate, migrate and/or spread to effectively repair the damage. In this review, we discuss how NRF2 governs repair of epithelial tissues, and we highlight the increasing number of NRF2 targets with diverse roles in regulating epithelial repair.

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