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ReviewCytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.)2025

Actin-Bundling Protein, Fascin-1, as a Target of Osteoarthritis Progression.

Rylee E King, Marin Herrick, Justin Parreno

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Review in Cytoskeleton (Hoboken, N.J.), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Rylee E KingDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.
Marin HerrickDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.
Justin ParrenoDepartment of Biological Sciences, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7119-3741

Funding

Understanding synovial macrophage inflamm-aging within osteoarthritisP20GM139760 · NIGMS · UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE · PI DAWN M ELLIOTT · 2021 to 2026
$19.1M
National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences P20GM103446National Institutes of Health's National Institute of General Medical Sciences P20GM139760NIGMS NIH HHS P20 GM139760
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The cellular mechanisms underlying osteoarthritis pathogenesis are not fully understood. However, recent in vivo and in vitro studies show that actin cytoskeletal reorganization plays a critical role in the progression of osteoarthritis. It has been shown that targeting the inhibition of actin-bundling protein, fascin, is a favorable way to reorganize actin and prevent chondrocyte dedifferentiation that occurs in osteoarthritis. In a surgical model of osteoarthritis, targeting fascin reduces cartilage degradation and disease severity. These findings highlight the therapeutic potential of targeting fascin in osteoarthritis. Future research to develop a further mechanistic understanding on the critical role actin and actin network molecules play in osteoarthritis may lead to the development of actin-based therapies against disease progression.

Indexed as

ActinsCarrier ProteinsMicrofilament ProteinsOsteoarthritisAnimalsDisease ProgressionHumansActinsCarrier ProteinsfascinFSCN1 protein, humanMicrofilament Proteinsactincartilagechondrocyte dedifferentiationcytoskeletonfascinosteoarthritis

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PMID40265561
PMCPMC12477639

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