Takashi Iezaki, Kakeru Ozaki, Kazuya Fukasawa, Makoto Inoue, Shigetaka Kitajima, Takeshi Muneta, Shu Takeda, Hiroyuki Fujita, Yuki Onishi, Tetsuhiro Horie, Yukio Yoneda, Takeshi Takarada, Eiichi Hinoi
Activating transcription factor 3 (Atf3) has been implicated in the pathogenesis of various diseases, including cancer and inflammation, as well as in the regulation of cell proliferation and differentiation. However, the involvement of Atf3 in developmental skeletogenesis and joint disease has not been well studied to date. Here, we show that Atf3 is a critical mediator of osteoarthritis (OA) development through its expression in chondrocytes. ATF3 expression was markedly up-regulated in the OA cartilage of both mice and humans...
August 2016: Journal of Pathology