International Journal of Molecular Sciences Article Differential and Overlapping Effects of 20,23(OH)2D3 and 1,25(OH)2D3 on Gene Expression in Human Epidermal Keratinocytes: Identification of AhR as an Alternative Receptor for 20,23(OH)2D3 Andrzej T. Slominski 1,2,3,* , Tae-Kang Kim 1 , Zorica Janjetovic 1, Anna A. Brozyna˙ 4,5, Michal A. Zmijewski˙ 6 , Hui Xu 1 , Thomas R. Sutter 7, Robert C. Tuckey 8, Anton M. Jetten 9 and David K. Crossman 10 1 Department of Dermatology, University of Alabama at Birmingham, Birmingham, AL 35294, USA;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +1-205-934-5245; Fax: +1-205-996-0302 Received: 30 August 2018; Accepted: 3 October 2018; Published: 8 October 2018 Abstract: A novel pathway of vitamin D activation by CYP11A has previously been elucidated.