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. 1995 Mar;99(3):338–344. doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2249.1995.tb05555.x

Expression of endogenous retroviruses, ERV3 and lambda 4-1, in synovial tissues from patients with rheumatoid arthritis.

K Takeuchi 1, K Katsumata 1, H Ikeda 1, M Minami 1, A Wakisaka 1, T Yoshiki 1
PMCID: PMC1534193  PMID: 7882554

Abstract

We addressed the question of whether or not expression of human endogenous retroviruses (ERV), ERV3 and lambda 4-1, is related to the pathogenesis of rheumatoid arthritis (RA). In genomic Southern hybridization, there were no significant differences between RA patients and healthy volunteers with regard to frequencies of restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) patterns, for either ERV3 or lambda 4-1. By Northern blot analysis using fresh synovial tissues, cultured synovial cells, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) from patients with RA, we noted two molecular species of ERV3 mRNAs of 3.5 kb and 9.0 kb sizes, and one single molecular species of lambda 4-1 mRNAs of 4.2 kb size. The expression was detected not only in RA patients but also in synovial cells from osteoarthritis (OA) as a non-RA control and PBMC from healthy volunteers, and was not related to RA activities or treatments. Although ERV3 and lambda 4-1 expression may not be directly associated with the pathogenic pathway of RA, the possibility exists that human ERV may have a causative role in autoimmune diseases, including RA. We also examined the effect of cytokines on the transcriptional regulation of ERV3. Although the level of ERV3 expression in cultured synovial cells did not change with IL-1 beta treatment, the level for cultured proximal tubular epithelial cells (hKEC) was up-regulated.

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