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BIOCHEMICAL AND BIOPHYSICAL RESEARCH COMMUNICATIONS
卷 526, 期 4, 页码 1092-1099出版社
ACADEMIC PRESS INC ELSEVIER SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2020.04.006
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Rheumatoid arthritis; CARD6; Inflammation and apoptosis; TNFR1/TRAF2; Bone erosion
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is one of the most common autoimmune diseases, characterized by chronic inflammation and bone destruction. However, the pathogenesis that contributes to RA is still unclear. Caspase recruitment domain protein 6 (CARD6) is a typical member of CARD domain-containing proteins, and shows regulatory effects on nuclear factor-kappa B (NF-kappa B) activation to meditate inflammation. In the present study, the role of CARD6 in the progression of inflammatory bone erosion in RA was investigated using the in vitro and in vivo experiments. In vitro results indicated that CARD expression was markedly down-regulated in the activated macrophages induced by lipopolysaccharide (LPS), accompanied with time-dependently increased expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines. Notably, overexpressing CARD6 in macrophages by adenoviral (Ad) vector significantly abolished the expression levels of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines. We found that CARD6 over-expression-suppressed inflammatory response was associated with the blockage of tumor necrosis factor receptor-1/tumor necrosis factor receptor-associated factor-2 (TNFR1/TRAF2) signaling, inhibiting NF-kappa B pathway subsequently. In addition, LPS-induced apoptosis in macrophages was also blunted due to AdCARD6 infection. CARD6-alleviated inflammatory response and apoptotic cell death were further confirmed in THF-alpha-stimulated macrophages. Then, the in vivo studies showed that promoting CARD6 expression using adeno-associated virus (AAV) effectively attenuated the severity of arthritis, improved histopathological damage, and hindered the bone erosion in collagen-induced arthritis (CIA) mice. Moreover, proinflammatory factors in the joint samples were also markedly decreased in CIA mice with CARD6 overexpression, which was related to the down-regulation of TNFR1/TRAF2/NF-kappa B signaling pathway. Meanwhile, apoptosis in joint of CIA mice was also ameliorated by AAV-CARD6, as evidenced by the obviously reduced expression of cleaved Caspase-3. These results clearly suggested that CARD6 might have anti-inflammatory and anti-apoptotic effects during RA progression, and thus could be defined as a novel therapeutic target for RA treatment in future. (C) 2020 Published by Elsevier Inc.
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