Keratin 6A promotes skin inflamma…on in keratinocytes.
🔬 Peer-reviewed
Keratin 6A promotes skin inflammation through JAK1-STAT3 activation in keratinocytes.
Mengting Chen, Yaling Wang, Mei Wang, San Xu, Zixin Tan, Yisheng Cai + 4 more
Journal of biomedical science · 2025
Findings
Keratin 6A (KRT6A) actually makes skin inflammation worse, not better. When researchers reduced KRT6A in mice with rosacea-like and psoriasis-like conditions, inflammation improved—but when they increased it, inflammation got worse. The protein appears to trigger inflammatory signals in skin cells, which could explain why it's elevated in people with these inflammatory skin diseases.
Design
Review
Evidence
Moderate
Journal
Journal of biomedical science
Ingredients studied