A research team from South Korea led by Chang-Woo Lee from Sungkyunkwan University School of Medicine in Suwon and Heounjeong Go from the University of Ulsan College of Medicine in Seoul have discovered that Pellino1, a protein known to modulate immune responses to pathogens, is also found in abundance in the skin lesions of people with psoriasis. Here, PELI1 is linked to psoriasis.