Therapeutic effect of cyclin‐dependent kinase 4/6 inhibitor on dermal fibrosis in murine models of systemic sclerosis

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Author(s):  
Akio Yamamoto ◽  
Tetsuya Saito ◽  
Tadashi Hosoya ◽  
Kimito Kawahata ◽  
Yoshihide Asano ◽  
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2017 ◽  
Vol 137 (8) ◽  
pp. 1671-1681 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katsunari Makino ◽  
Tomoko Makino ◽  
Lukasz Stawski ◽  
Julio C. Mantero ◽  
Robert Lafyatis ◽  
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2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (497) ◽  
pp. eaaw0790 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Yusup Shin ◽  
James Daniel Beckett ◽  
Rustam Bagirzadeh ◽  
Tyler J. Creamer ◽  
Ami A. Shah ◽  
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In systemic sclerosis (SSc), previously healthy adults develop an inflammatory prodrome with subsequent progressive fibrosis of the skin and viscera. SSc has a weak signature for genetic contribution, and there are few pathogenic insights or targeted treatments for this condition. Here, chromatin accessibility and transcriptome profiling coupled with targeted epigenetic editing revealed constitutive activation of a previously unannotated transforming growth factor–β2 (TGFB2) enhancer maintained through epigenetic memory in SSc. The resulting autocrine TGFβ2 signaling enforced a profibrotic synthetic state in ex vivo fibroblasts from patients with SSc. Inhibition of NF-κB or BRD4 achieved sustained inhibition of TGFB2 enhancer activity, mitigated profibrotic gene expression, and reversed dermal fibrosis in patient skin explants. These findings suggest a potential epigenetic mechanism of fibrosis in SSc and inform a regulatory mechanism of TGFB2, a major profibrotic cytokine.


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Vol 54 (6) ◽  
pp. 1982-1986 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard A. Nash ◽  
Peter A. McSweeney ◽  
J. Lee Nelson ◽  
Mark Wener ◽  
George E. Georges ◽  
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Vol 67 (1) ◽  
pp. 243-253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Markella Ponticos ◽  
Ioannis Papaioannou ◽  
Shiwen Xu ◽  
Alan M. Holmes ◽  
Korsa Khan ◽  
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2013 ◽  
Vol 80 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28 ◽  
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Jérôme Avouac ◽  
Muriel Elhai ◽  
Yannick Allanore

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2013 ◽  
Vol 52 (5) ◽  
pp. 790-799 ◽  
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S. Noda ◽  
Y. Asano ◽  
T. Takahashi ◽  
K. Akamata ◽  
N. Aozasa ◽  
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Cells ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 10 (10) ◽  
pp. 2727
Author(s):  
Pauline Rozier ◽  
Marie Maumus ◽  
Alexandre Thibault Jacques Maria ◽  
Karine Toupet ◽  
Christian Jorgensen ◽  
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Background: Systemic sclerosis (SSc) is a severe autoimmune disease for which mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs)-based therapy was reported to reduce SSc-related symptoms in pre-clinical studies. Recently, extracellular vesicles released by MSCs (MSC-EVs) were shown to mediate most of their therapeutic effect. Here, we aimed at improving their efficacy by increasing the MSC-EV dose or by IFNγ-priming of MSCs. Methods: small size (ssEVs) and large size EVs (lsEVs) were recovered from murine MSCs that were pre-activated using 1 or 20 ng/mL of IFNγ. In the HOCl-induced model of SSc, mice were treated with EVs at day 21 and sacrificed at day 42. Lung and skin samples were collected for histological and molecular analyses. Results: increasing the dose of MSC-EVs did not add benefit to the dose previously reported to be efficient in SSc. By contrast, IFNγ pre-activation improved MSC-EVs-based treatment, essentially in the lungs. Low doses of IFNγ decreased the expression of fibrotic markers, while high doses improved remodeling and anti-inflammatory markers. IFNγ pre-activation upregulated iNos, IL1ra and Il6 in MSCs and ssEVs and the PGE2 protein in lsEVs. Conclusion: IFNγ-pre-activation improved the therapeutic effect of MSC-EVs preferentially in the lungs of SSc mice by modulating anti-inflammatory and anti-fibrotic markers.


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