Nature Communications (Jun 2021)

Lasp1 regulates adherens junction dynamics and fibroblast transformation in destructive arthritis

  • Denise Beckmann,
  • Anja Römer-Hillmann,
  • Annika Krause,
  • Uwe Hansen,
  • Corinna Wehmeyer,
  • Johanna Intemann,
  • David J. J. de Gorter,
  • Berno Dankbar,
  • Jan Hillen,
  • Marianne Heitzmann,
  • Isabell Begemann,
  • Milos Galic,
  • Toni Weinhage,
  • Dirk Foell,
  • Rizi Ai,
  • Joachim Kremerskothen,
  • Hans P. Kiener,
  • Sylvia Müller,
  • Thomas Kamradt,
  • Christopher Schröder,
  • Elsa Leitão,
  • Bernhard Horsthemke,
  • Philip Rosenstiel,
  • Karl Nordström,
  • Gilles Gasparoni,
  • Nina Gasparoni,
  • Jörn Walter,
  • Na Li,
  • Xinyi Yang,
  • Ho-Ryun Chung,
  • Hermann Pavenstädt,
  • Nico Lindemann,
  • Hans J. Schnittler,
  • Wei Wang,
  • Gary S. Firestein,
  • Thomas Pap,
  • Adelheid Korb-Pap

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23706-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Fibroblast-like synoviocytes are important mediators of joint pathology in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). Here the authors show that Lasp1 is epigenetically regulated and highly expressed by these cells in RA and its deletion can limit joint pathology in a mouse model of inflammatory arthritis.