Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, 389 Xincun Road, Shanghai 200065, PR China; Clinical Research Center, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, 389 Xincun Road, Shanghai 200065, PR China.
Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital, School of Medicine, Tongji University, 389 Xincun Road, Shanghai 200065, PR China.
Int J Biol Macromol. 2024 Oct;278(Pt 1):134600. doi: 10.1016/j.ijbiomac.2024.134600. Epub 2024 Aug 8.
Extracellular vesicles secreted by bone marrow mesenchymal stem cells (BM-MSCs) exert therapeutic effects in osteoarthritis (OA). As an important N6-Methyladenosine (m6A) demethylase, it is reported that fat mass and obesity-associated protein (FTO) involves in regulating OA progression. Here, we generated MSCs-derived FTO-overexpressing EVs (FTO-EVs) to investigate whether FTO-EVs could be used for the potential treatment of OA. Our experiments verify that FTO-EVs suppressed cellular senescence, aging, apoptosis, and enhanced cell autophagy in LPS-treated chondrocytes in vitro and monosodium iodoacetate (MIA)-treated mice tissues in vivo. Also, ROS scavenger NAC reversed LPS-induced detrimental effects in chondrocytes. Mechanical experiments illustrated that FTO-EVs induced m6A-demethylation in autophagy-associated genes (Atg5 and Atg7) and pro-apoptosis gene (BNIP3), subsequently inducing the upregulation of Atg5/Atg7 and downregulation of BNIP3 in a YTHDF2-dependent manner, and the effects of FTO-EVs on the expressions of Atg5/Atg7 and BNIP3 were all reversed by upregulating m6A methyltransferase METTL3. Furthermore, FTO-EVs-induced suppressing effects on LPS-treated chondrocytes senescence and aging were abolished by Atg5/Atg7 knockdown and BNIP3 overexpression. In conclusion, this study evidenced that BM-MSCs-derived FTO-EVs suppressed cellular senescence and apoptosis, and triggered protective autophagy to suppress OA development through demethylating m6A modifications, and the engineering FTO-EVs could be potentially used to treat OA in clinic.
骨髓间充质干细胞(BM-MSCs)分泌的细胞外囊泡在骨关节炎(OA)中发挥治疗作用。作为一种重要的 N6-甲基腺苷(m6A)去甲基化酶,据报道肥胖相关蛋白(FTO)参与调节 OA 的进展。在这里,我们生成了 MSC 来源的 FTO 过表达的 EVs(FTO-EVs),以研究 FTO-EVs 是否可用于 OA 的潜在治疗。我们的实验验证了 FTO-EVs 抑制了 LPS 处理的软骨细胞和体内单碘乙酸盐(MIA)处理的小鼠组织中的细胞衰老、老化、凋亡,并增强了细胞自噬。此外,ROS 清除剂 NAC 逆转了 LPS 诱导的软骨细胞的有害作用。力学实验表明,FTO-EVs 诱导自噬相关基因(Atg5 和 Atg7)和促凋亡基因(BNIP3)的 m6A 去甲基化,随后以 YTHDF2 依赖的方式诱导 Atg5/Atg7 的上调和 BNIP3 的下调,FTO-EVs 对 Atg5/Atg7 和 BNIP3 的表达的影响都可以通过上调 m6A 甲基转移酶 METTL3 来逆转。此外,FTO-EVs 诱导的 LPS 处理的软骨细胞衰老和老化的抑制作用被 Atg5/Atg7 敲低和 BNIP3 过表达所消除。总之,这项研究证明了 BM-MSCs 来源的 FTO-EVs 通过去甲基化 m6A 修饰抑制细胞衰老和凋亡,并触发保护性自噬来抑制 OA 的发展,工程化的 FTO-EVs 可能在临床上用于治疗 OA。
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