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Article Dans Une Revue Arthritis Research and Therapy Année : 2007

Extracellular localization of galectin-3 has a deleterious role in joint tissues

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In this study we examine the extracellular role of galectin-3 (gal-3) in joint tissues. Following intra-articular injection of gal-3 or vehicle in knee joints of mice, histological evaluation of articular cartilage and subchondral bone was performed. Further studies were then performed using human osteoarthritic (OA) chondrocytes and subchondral bone osteoblasts, in which the effect of gal-3 (0 to 10 μg/ml) was analyzed. Osteoblasts were incubated in the presence of vitamin D 3 (50 nM), which is an inducer of osteocalcin, encoded by an osteoblast terminal differentiation gene. Genes of interest mainly expressed in either chondrocytes or osteoblasts were analyzed with real-time RT-PCR and enzyme immunoassays. Signalling pathways regulating osteocalcin were analyzed in the presence of gal-3. Intra-articular injection of gal-3 induced knee swelling and lesions in both cartilage and subchondral bone. On human OA chondrocytes, gal-3 at 1 μg/ml stimulated ADAMTS-5 expression in chondrocytes and, at higher concentrations (5 and 10 μg/ml), matrix metalloproteinase-3 expression. Experiments performed with osteoblasts showed a weak but bipolar effect on alkaline phosphatase expression: stimulation at 1 μg/ml or inhibition at 10 μg/ml. In the absence of vitamin D 3 , type I collagen alpha 1 chain expression was inhibited by 10 μg/ml of gal-3. The vitamin D 3 induced osteocalcin was strongly inhibited in a dose-dependent manner in the presence of gal-3, at both the mRNA and protein levels. This inhibition was mainly mediated by phosphatidylinositol-3-kinase. These findings indicate that high levels of extracellular gal-3, which could be encountered locally during the inflammatory process, have deleterious effects in both cartilage and subchondral bone tissues.
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hal-01704438 , version 1 (08-02-2018)

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Audrée Janelle-Montcalm, Christelle Boileau, Françoise Poirier, Jean-Pierre Pelletier, Mélanie Guévremont, et al.. Extracellular localization of galectin-3 has a deleterious role in joint tissues. Arthritis Research and Therapy, 2007, 9 (1), pp.R20. ⟨10.1186/ar2130⟩. ⟨hal-01704438⟩
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