C-Reactive Protein Promotes the Activation of Fibroblast-Like Synoviocytes From Patients With Rheumatoid Arthritis

Copyright © 2020 Fang, Lv, Wang, Qin, He, Wang, Zhou, Liu, Zhong, Zheng, Lan and Wang..

Objective: To evaluate the biological effect and mechanisms of C-reactive protein (CRP) on the activation of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs) from patients with rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Study design: To understand if CRP is involved in RA, expression of CRP and its receptors CD32/64 was examined in synovial tissues from RA patients and normal controls. In vitro, the potential role and mechanisms of CRP in FLS proliferation and invasion, expression of pro-inflammatory cytokines, and activation of signaling pathways were investigated in both RA - FLS and a normal human fibroblast-like synoviocyte line (HFLS). Results: Compared to normal controls, synovial tissues from 21 RA patients exhibited highly activated CRP signaling, particularly by FLSs as identified by 65% of CRP-expressing cells being CRP+vimentin+ and CD32/64+vimentin+ cells. In vitro, FLSs from RA patients, but not HFLS, showed highly reactive to CRP by largely increasing proliferative and invasive activities and expressing pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, including CCL2, CXCL8, IL-6, and MMP2/9. All these changes were blocked largely by a neutralizing antibody to CD32 and, to a less extent by the anti-CD64 antibody, revealing CD32 as a primary mechanism of CRP signaling during synovial inflammation. Further studies revealed that CRP also induced synovial inflammation differentially via CD32/CD64- NF-κB or p38 pathways as blockade of CRP-CD32-NF-κB signaling inhibited CXCL8, CCL2, IL-6, whereas CRP induced RA-FLS invasiveness through CD32-p38 and MMP9 expression via the CD64-p38-dependent mechanism. Conclusions: CRP signaling is highly activated in synovial FLSs from patients with RA. CRP can induce synovial inflammation via mechanisms associated with activation of CD32/64-p38 and NF-κB signaling.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11

Enthalten in:

Frontiers in immunology - 11(2020) vom: 15., Seite 958

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Fang, Zhengyu [VerfasserIn]
Lv, Jiyang [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Jing [VerfasserIn]
Qin, Qingxia [VerfasserIn]
He, Juan [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Meiying [VerfasserIn]
Zhou, Gengmin [VerfasserIn]
Liu, Guoyu [VerfasserIn]
Zhong, Fubo [VerfasserIn]
Zheng, Yadan [VerfasserIn]
Lan, Hui-Yao [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Qingwen [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

9007-41-4
C-Reactive Protein
CD32
CD64
CRP
CRP protein, human
Cytokines
EC 2.7.11.24
FLS
Journal Article
NF-κB
NF-kappa B
P38
P38 Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases
RA
Receptors, IgG
Receptors, Immunologic
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 29.03.2021

Date Revised 14.05.2021

published: Electronic-eCollection

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.3389/fimmu.2020.00958

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM310883296