[Fillagrin - Multifunctional Protein].

Abstract

Effective physical, chemical, biochemical and immune function of the skin requires a corresponding structure of the epidermis. Filaggrin, one of epidermal proteins, is essential for the formation of corneocytes and intracellular metabolites, which in turn contribute to maintaining the stratum corneum humidity and acidic pH of the skin surface. However, a number of profilaggrin gene mutations have been described, as well as different inflammatory conditions and different external factors that all resulted in filaggrin deficiency. Filaggrin deficiency is recorded in different skin diseases and discoveries related to metabolic processing of filaggrin point to new goals in therapeutic strategies. In this preview, the main properties of the formation and metabolism of filaggrin are described, as well as clinical implications of filaggrin deficiency in the etiopathogenesis of some skin diseases.