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ArticleMolecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy2025

Galectin-9 inhibition of the MIF-CD74/CD44 pathway suppresses chronic arthritis.

Meiling Li, Min-Kyung Nam, Jung Gon Kim, Juyeon Kang, Se-Hyeon Park, Su-Hyun Lee, Chaerin Kim, David Song, Jingchun Jin, Seung-Ah Yoo and 2 more

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Article in Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 4 papers.

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4 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Single-cell transcriptomic analysis identifies a MIF-driven keratinocyte-macrophage-Th2 axis as a key inflammatory circuit in atopic dermatitis.Inflammation research : official journal of the European Histamine Research Society ... [et al.] · 2026
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5 · Who and what money

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12 authors.

Meiling LiDepartment of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, Department of Medical Life Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; Department of Rheumatology and Immunology, The Second Affiliated Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Min-Kyung NamDepartment of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, Department of Medical Life Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Jung Gon KimCenter for Integrative Rheumatoid Transcriptomics and Dynamics, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; Department of Internal Medicine, Inje University Ilsan Paik Hospital, Goyang, Korea.
Juyeon KangCenter for Integrative Rheumatoid Transcriptomics and Dynamics, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Se-Hyeon ParkDepartment of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, Department of Medical Life Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; Center for Integrative Rheumatoid Transcriptomics and Dynamics, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Su-Hyun LeeDepartment of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, Department of Medical Life Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; Center for Integrative Rheumatoid Transcriptomics and Dynamics, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
Chaerin KimDepartment of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, Department of Medical Life Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; Center for Integrative Rheumatoid Transcriptomics and Dynamics, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea.
David SongGBIOLOGICS, Seongnam, Korea.
Jingchun JinDepartment of Immunology of Yanbian University Hospital, Yanji, Jilin Province, China. Electronic address: jingchun680928@163.com.
Seung-Ah YooDepartment of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, Department of Medical Life Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; Center for Integrative Rheumatoid Transcriptomics and Dynamics, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. Electronic address: youcap78@hanmail.net.
Richard BucalaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
Wan-Uk KimDepartment of Biomedicine & Health Sciences, Department of Medical Life Sciences, College of Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; Center for Integrative Rheumatoid Transcriptomics and Dynamics, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea; Department of Internal Medicine, The Catholic University of Korea, Seoul, Korea. Electronic address: wan725@catholic.ac.kr.

Funding

Defining the Pathogenic Contribution of High Genotypic MIF ExpressionR01AR078334 · NIAMS · YALE UNIVERSITY · PI BUCALA, RICHARD J · 2021 to 2025
$1.8M
NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR078334
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The destructive potential of rheumatoid arthritis (RA) lies in the aggressive behavior of fibroblast-like synoviocytes (FLSs), which actively contribute to the erosion of cartilage and bone and may persist even in the face of apparent clinical remission. Therapeutic approaches targeting RA-FLSs have been developed to treat RA; however, there are no clinically approved drugs available at present. Here, single-cell RNA sequencing of RA-FLSs identified a distinct macrophage migration inhibitory factor (MIF)

Indexed as

Antigens, Differentiation, B-LymphocyteArthritis, RheumatoidGalectinsHyaluronan ReceptorsIntramolecular OxidoreductasesMacrophage Migration-Inhibitory FactorsSignal TransductionAnimalsArthritis, ExperimentalCell MovementCell ProliferationDisease Models, AnimalHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIHumansMiceSynoviocytesAntigens, Differentiation, B-LymphocyteCD44 protein, humanGalectinsHistocompatibility Antigens Class IIHyaluronan ReceptorsIntramolecular Oxidoreductasesinvariant chainLGALS9 protein, humanMacrophage Migration-Inhibitory FactorsMIF protein, humanCD44CIAcollagen-induced arthritisendoplasmic reticulumERfibroblast-like synoviocytesgalectin-9macrophage migration inhibitory factorMIFrheumatoid arthritis

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PMID40798883
PMCPMC12433722

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