Li Yanpeng, Li Zhilei, Nandakumar Kutty Selva, Holmdahl Rikard
Division of Medical Inflammation Research, Department of Medical Biochemistry and Biophysics, Karolinska Institute, 17177 Stockholm, Sweden.
SMU-KI United Medical Inflammation Center, School of Pharmaceutical Sciences, Southern Medical University, Guangzhou 510515, China.
Antioxidants (Basel). 2023 Jun 27;12(7):1348. doi: 10.3390/antiox12071348.
Recently, a major single nucleotide variant on the NCF1 gene, leading to an amino acid replacement from arginine to histidine at position 90 (NCF1), associated with low production of reactive oxygen species (ROS), was found to be causative for several autoimmune diseases. Psoriasis in the skin (PsO) and psoriatic arthritis (PsA) were induced with mannan by intraperitoneal injection or epicutaneous application, evaluated by visual and histology scoring. Immunostaining was used to identify macrophages, NCF1, and keratinocytes. The population of immune cells was quantified by flow cytometry, gene expression was analyzed by RT-qPCR, and the JAK/STAT signaling pathway was investigated by immunohistochemical staining and western blot. We found that the low ROS responder NCF1 variant promotes PsO and PsA (the MIP model). The NCF1-expressing mice had hyperactivated macrophages, expanded keratinocytes, and dramatically increased numbers of γδT17 cells with upregulated IL-17A, IL-23, and TNF-α. In addition, the JAK1/STAT3 signaling pathway was also upregulated in cells in the psoriatic skin tissues of mice. To summarize, a defined SNP (, also named NCF1) was found to activate the IL-23/IL-17 axis and JAK-STAT signaling pathways, leading to hyperactivation of macrophages and keratinocytes and causing mouse psoriasis and psoriatic arthritis.
最近,人们发现,NCF1基因上的一个主要单核苷酸变异会导致第90位氨基酸由精氨酸替换为组氨酸(NCF1),该变异与活性氧(ROS)产生量低有关,是多种自身免疫性疾病的病因。通过腹腔注射或经皮应用甘露聚糖诱导皮肤银屑病(PsO)和银屑病关节炎(PsA),通过视觉和组织学评分进行评估。采用免疫染色法鉴定巨噬细胞、NCF1和角质形成细胞。通过流式细胞术对免疫细胞群体进行定量分析,通过RT-qPCR分析基因表达,并通过免疫组织化学染色和蛋白质印迹法研究JAK/STAT信号通路。我们发现,低ROS反应性NCF1变异会促进PsO和PsA(MIP模型)。表达NCF1的小鼠巨噬细胞过度活化,角质形成细胞增多,γδT17细胞数量显著增加,IL-17A、IL-23和TNF-α上调。此外,JAK1/STAT3信号通路在小鼠银屑病皮肤组织的细胞中也上调。总之,发现一个特定的单核苷酸多态性(也称为NCF1)可激活IL-23/IL-17轴和JAK-STAT信号通路,导致巨噬细胞和角质形成细胞过度活化,从而引起小鼠银屑病和银屑病关节炎。