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Role of ELK3 in ferroptosis of rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes

Role of ELK3 in ferroptosis of rheumatoid arthritis fibroblast-like synoviocytes
2025-02-07
(Press-News.org) Background and objectives Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an inflammatory arthritis characterized by chronic joint inflammation, cartilage degradation, and bone erosion. ELK3 is a transcriptional repressor that can affect cell proliferation, migration, invasion, apoptosis, and other cellular processes. The study aimed to clarify the effect of ELK3 in the biological activity and ferroptosis phenotype of RA fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLS), and to reveal its molecular mechanism in regulating ferroptosis in RA FLS.

Methods We investigated the impact of ELK3 on the biological activity and ferroptosis phenotype of RA FLS using real-time quantitative polymerase chain reaction, immunohistochemistry, Transwell assay, CCK-8 assay, and ferroptosis-related indicator kit. The molecular mechanism of ELK3 in RA FLS was further explored using Western blot, chromatin immunoprecipitation polymerase chain reaction, and other experiments.

Results ELK3 was highly expressed in RA. Silencing ELK3 inhibited the invasion and proliferation of RA FLS (both p < 0.05). After silencing ELK3 in imidazole ketone erastin-induced RA FLS, intracellular reactive oxygen species, lipid peroxidation levels, ferrous ion content, 4-Hydroxynonenal levels, and Malondialdehyde concentrations all increased. Additionally, ELK3 affects ferroptosis in RA FLS by regulating kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 (p < 0.05).

Conclusions Silencing ELK3 leads to decreased invasion and proliferation of RA FLS, affecting their biological activity. ELK3 inhibits ferroptosis by suppressing its transcriptional activity through binding to the kelch-like ECH-associated protein 1 promoter. This suggests that ELK3 may be a potential target for RA therapy.

 

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The study was recently published in the Exploratory Research and Hypothesis in Medicine.

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