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- Title
The DNA Repair Enzyme Apurinic/Apyrimidinic Endonuclease (Apex Nuclease) 2 Has the Potential to Protect against Down-Regulation of Chondrocyte Activity in Osteoarthritis.
- Authors
Naoko Yui; Hirotaka Yoshioka; Hiroto Fujiya; Haruki Musha; Moroe Beppu; Rie Karasawa; Kazuo Yudoh
- Abstract
Apurinic/apyrimidinic endonuclease 2 (Apex 2) plays a critical role in DNA repair caused by oxidative damage in a variety of human somatic cells. We speculated that chondrocyte Apex 2 may protect against the catabolic process of articular cartilage in osteoarthritis (OA). Higher levels of Apex 2 expression were histologically observed in severely compared with mildly degenerated OA cartilage from STR/OrtCrlj mice, an experimental model which spontaneously develops OA. The immunopositivity of Apex 2 was significantly correlated with the degree of cartilage degeneration. Moreover, the OA-related catabolic factor interleukin-1ß induced the expression of Apex 2 in chondrocytes, while Apex 2 silencing using small interfering RNA reduced chondrocyte activity in vitro. The expression of Apex 2 in chondrocytes therefore appears to be associated with the degeneration of articular cartilage and could be induced by an OA-related catabolic factor to protect against the catabolic process of articular cartilage. Our findings suggest that Apex 2 may have the potential to prevent the catabolic stress-mediated down-regulation of chondrocyte activity in OA.
- Subjects
OSTEOARTHRITIS treatment; GENE expression; OXIDATIVE stress; APURINIC acid; DNA ligases
- Publication
International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 2014, Vol 15, Issue 9, p14921
- ISSN
1661-6596
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.3390/ijms150914921