Role of innate immune sensors, TLRs, and NALP3 in rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis

Journal of Long-term Effects of Medical Implants
Yuya TakakuboMichiaki Takagi

Abstract

Innate immune sensors, Toll-like receptors (TLRs), and nucleotide-binding oligomerization domain-like receptors (NLRs) participate in the induction of innate inflammatory and adaptive immune responses in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and osteoarthritis (OA). Danger signals, e.g., heat-shock proteins (HSPs) and high mobility group box-1 protein (HMGB-1), internal ligands of TLRs, have been reported in the patients with RA and OA. In RA, TLR1-9 have been implicated in the pathogenesis. Although the precise role of each receptor is still unknown, immunohistochemical analyses of RA tissues after treatment of biologic disease modifying antirheumatic drugs showed phenotypic changes of immune cell types and residual expression of some TLRs. This suggests the potential for modulation of moderate/severe local joint inflammation, composed in particular of and possibly driven by the "auto-inflammatory" TLR+ cells, still responding to internal ligands derived from destroyed tissues. In OA, systematic profiling of TLR using a histological grading system recently showed that TLR+ cells are greater in number in the surface zone of grades 3 and 4 OA, but interestingly not grade 5. NACHT, LRR, and PYD domains-containing protein (NALP) 3 and related...Continue Reading

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