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ArticleActa dermato-venereologica2026

Comprehensive Transcriptomic Profiling of Nonatopic Prurigo Nodularis in Korean Patients Reveals Il-22-driven Epidermal Stress and Neuro-immuno-fibrotic Remodelling.

Hei Sung Kim, Yoon-Seob Kim, Gil Yosipovitch

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Hei Sung Kim *Department of Dermatology, Incheon St. Mary's Hospital, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea. hazelkimhoho@catholic.ac.kr.ORCID 0000-0003-0576-0474
Yoon-Seob Kim *Department of Dermatology, Bucheon St. Mary's Hospital, Bucheon, South Korea.
Gil YosipovitchDr Philip Frost Department of Dermatology and Cutaneous Surgery, Miller School of Medicine, University of Miami, Miami, Florida, United States. gyosipovitch@med.miami.edu.

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Abstract

Prurigo nodularis (PN) is a chronic pruritic dermatosis with incompletely defined pathogenesis, and molecular data from East Asian populations are limited. We characterized the transcriptomic signatures of non-atopic PN in Korean patients to identify pathways linked to chronic itch and lesion persistence. RNA sequencing was performed on lesional and non-lesional skin from 17 PN patients and normal skin from 11 controls, followed by differential expression, functional enrichment, and correlation analyses. Lesional PN skin showed distinct transcriptional signatures with upregulation of Th22/IL-22-related genes and IL-22-inducible epidermal stress markers (S100A7/A8/A9, SERPINB4, HRNR), along with keratinization genes (KRT6C, KRT16, KRT17). Itch severity correlated strongly (Spearman's ρ>0.7) with IL-22-inducible stress genes, IL4R, profibrotic mediators (WNT5A), JAK-STAT regulators (JAK3, SOCS1/3), neuromodulatory/epidermal-neural genes (TRPV3), and senescence markers (CDKN1A, CXCL8, PLAUR). Non-lesional skin showed intermediate expression patterns, consistent with subclinical inflammation. Despite the modest sample size and single-ethnicity design, these findings indicate that non-atopic PN in Korean patients is characterized by IL-22-driven epidermal stress, fibroblast remodelling, neuroimmune signalling, and senescence programsprogrammes, highlighting therapeutic targets including IL-31RA, IL-4Rα/JAK1, antifibrotic and senescence-directed pathways.

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EpidermisGene Expression ProfilingInterleukinsPrurigoTranscriptomeAdultCase-Control StudiesFemaleFibrosisHumansInterleukin-22MaleMiddle AgedPhenotypePruritusRepublic of KoreaInterleukin-22Interleukins

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