The Rheumatism Research Center, Catholic Research Institute of Medical Science, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, South Korea.
Department of Immunology, Blavatnik Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, USA.
J Transl Med. 2019 Mar 15;17(1):84. doi: 10.1186/s12967-019-1809-3.
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is a chronic and systemic inflammatory disease characterized by upregulation of inflammatory cell death and osteoclastogenesis. Necrostatin (NST)-1s is a chemical inhibitor of receptor-interacting serine/threonine-protein kinase (RIPK)1, which plays a role in necroptosis.
We investigated whether NST-1s decreases inflammatory cell death and inflammatory responses in a mouse model of collagen-induced arthritis (CIA).
NST-1s decreased the progression of CIA and the synovial expression of proinflammatory cytokines. Moreover, NST-1s treatment decreased the expression of necroptosis mediators such as RIPK1, RIPK3, and mixed lineage kinase domain-like (MLKL). In addition, NST-1s decreased osteoclastogenesis in vitro and in vivo. NST-1s downregulated T helper (Th)1 and Th17 cell expression, but promoted Th2 and regulatory T (Treg) cell expression in CIA mice.
These results suggest that NST-1s attenuates CIA progression via the inhibition of osteoclastogenesis and might be a potential therapeutic agent for RA therapy.
类风湿性关节炎(RA)是一种慢性全身性炎症性疾病,其特征是炎症细胞死亡和破骨细胞生成的上调。Necrostatin-1s(NST-1s)是受体相互作用丝氨酸/苏氨酸蛋白激酶(RIPK)1 的化学抑制剂,在细胞程序性坏死中发挥作用。
我们研究了 NST-1s 是否可以减少胶原诱导性关节炎(CIA)小鼠模型中的炎症细胞死亡和炎症反应。
NST-1s 可降低 CIA 的进展和滑膜中促炎细胞因子的表达。此外,NST-1s 治疗可降低程序性坏死介质如 RIPK1、RIPK3 和混合谱系激酶结构域样(MLKL)的表达。此外,NST-1s 可减少体外和体内的破骨细胞生成。NST-1s 下调 CIA 小鼠中的辅助性 T(Th)1 和 Th17 细胞表达,但促进 Th2 和调节性 T(Treg)细胞表达。
这些结果表明,NST-1s 通过抑制破骨细胞生成来减轻 CIA 的进展,可能是 RA 治疗的潜在治疗剂。