PATHOGENESIS OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS: THE ROLE OF SYNOVIOCYTES
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PARTIAL TRANSFORMATION OF RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS SYNOVIAL TISSUES OR CELLS
Rheumatoid synovium is characterized by excessive growth and invasion into adjacent tissues, including bone and cartilage.42 In many ways, it behaves and appears like a locally invasive tumor in the joints. In fact, RA synovial tissues or cells exhibit many features of transformation in vivo and in vitro (Table 1). It is unclear, however, whether these cells are permanently changed in association with genetic alterations or are passively responding to the local environment.26
SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION AND TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS IN RHEUMATOID ARTHRITIS
Regulation of cell activation and differentiation is tightly associated with transcription factors that bind DNA and regulate gene transcription. RA reveals marked synovial tissue hyperplasia associated with inflammation, and there is increasing evidence that a number of transcription factor families are involved in these processes.28 Activator protein-1 (AP-1), mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), and nuclear factor κB (NF-κB) are thought to be especially important and have been
MATRIX-MODIFYING ENZYMES: MATRIX METALLOPROTEINASES, AGGRECANASE, AND CYSTEINE PROTEASES
RA is a destructive inflammatory disease in which joint deformity and disability result from extracellular matrix degradation. MMPs, ADAMTS (a disintegration and metalloproteinase with thrombospondin motifs), family members and cysteine proteases are considered to be the primary proteolytic enzymes responsible for degradation of extracellular matrix such as collagen and proteoglycan, for remodeling of connective tissues, and for resulting joint destruction.
SUMMARY
Considering the characteristics of RA synovial tissues such as marked proliferation and invasion to adjacent tissues, comparisons with transformed or neoplastic tissue are natural. RA synovial tissues or cells are not truly malignant, but they have many features of transformation, denoted as “partial transformation” in this article. These features include anchorage-independent growth, loss of contact inhibition, oncogene activation, monoclonal or oligoclonal expansion, detectable telomerase
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