Section 7: Gene-expression

(Ro)accutane, 13-cis-retinoic acid, is a derivate of vitamin A, which although being though of as a vitamin, has very little in common with other vitamins except for vitamin D. In practise vitamin A is a hormone, and is therefore classified as a steroid and inserts its effects through a major influence of gene-expression. Section classifying (Ro)accutane induced transcription by transcription factors and enzymes.