Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

Scavenger receptor-A is a biomarker and effector of rheumatoid arthritis: A large-scale multicenter study

  • Fanlei Hu,
  • Xiang Jiang,
  • Chunqing Guo,
  • Yingni Li,
  • Shixian Chen,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Yan Du,
  • Ping Wang,
  • Xi Zheng,
  • Xiangyu Fang,
  • Xin Li,
  • Jing Song,
  • Yang Xie,
  • Fei Huang,
  • Jimeng Xue,
  • Mingxin Bai,
  • Yuan Jia,
  • Xu Liu,
  • Limin Ren,
  • Xiaoying Zhang,
  • Jianping Guo,
  • Hudan Pan,
  • Yin Su,
  • Huanfa Yi,
  • Hua Ye,
  • Daming Zuo,
  • Juan Li,
  • Huaxiang Wu,
  • Yongfu Wang,
  • Ru Li,
  • Liang Liu,
  • Xiang-Yang Wang,
  • Zhanguo Li

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15700-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Scavenger receptor-A (SR-A) is mostly expressed by myeloid cells and has been attributed a variety of biological functions. Here the authors assess SR-A as a biomarker for diagnosis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) using large-scale training and validation cohorts and show that modulating SR-A levels can alter progression of collagen-induced arthritis in mice.