Targeting of dermal myofibroblasts through death receptor 5 arrests fibrosis in mouse models of scleroderma

Jong Sung Park; Yumin Oh; Yong Joo Park; Ogyi Park; Hoseong Yang; Stephanie Slania; Laura K. Hummers; Ami A. Shah; Hyoung Tae An; Jiyeon Jang; Maureen R. Horton; Joseph Shin; Harry C. Dietz; Eric Song; Dong Hee Na; Eun Ji Park; Kwangmeyung Kim; Kang Choon Lee; Viktor V. Roschke; Justin Hanes; Martin G. Pomper; Seulki Lee

doi:10.1038/s41467-019-09101-4

Targeting of dermal myofibroblasts through death receptor 5 arrests fibrosis in mouse models of scleroderma

Jong Sung Park, Yumin Oh, Yong Joo Park, Ogyi Park, Hoseong Yang, Stephanie Slania, Laura K. Hummers, Ami A. Shah, Hyoung Tae An, Jiyeon Jang, Maureen R. Horton, Joseph Shin, Harry C. Dietz, Eric Song, Dong Hee Na, Eun Ji Park, Kwangmeyung Kim, Kang Choon Lee, Viktor V. Roschke, Justin HanesMartin G. Pomper, Seulki Lee

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Abstract

Scleroderma is an autoimmune rheumatic disorder accompanied by severe fibrosis in skin and other internal organs. During scleroderma progression, resident fibroblasts undergo activation and convert to α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) expressing myofibroblasts (MFBs) with increased capacity to synthesize collagens and fibrogenic components. Accordingly, MFBs are a major therapeutic target for fibrosis in scleroderma and treatment with blocking MFBs could produce anti-fibrotic effects. TLY012 is an engineered human TNF-related apoptosis-inducing ligand (TRAIL) which induces selective apoptosis in transformed cells expressing its cognate death receptors (DRs). Here we report that TLY012 selectively blocks activation of dermal fibroblasts and induces DR-mediated apoptosis in α-SMA⁺MFBs through upregulated DR5 during its activation. In vivo, TLY012 reverses established skin fibrosis to near-normal skin architecture in mouse models of scleroderma. Thus, the TRAIL pathway plays a critical role in tissue remodeling and targeting upregulated DR5 in α-SMA⁺ MFBs is a viable therapy for fibrosis in scleroderma.

Original language	English
Article number	1128
Journal	Nature Communications
Volume	10
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09101-4
State	Published - 1 Dec 2019

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This work was supported by grants from the Department of Defense (W81XWH-15-1-0301, W81XWH-14-1-0239), National Institutes of Health (1U44AA026111-01), Maryland Technology Development Corporation (2016-MII-4352), and the National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF-2013K1A1A2A02050115, NRF-2016R1A2B4006914, NRF-2018R1A2B3004266). The authors acknowledge the joint participation by the Donald B. & Dorothy L. Stabler Foundation and the Jerome L. Greene Fund and the Scleroderma Research Foundation. We thank F.M. Wigley for providing SSc cell lines, A. Bora for editing the manuscript and Theraly Fibrosis Inc. for providing TLY012.

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Park, J. S., Oh, Y., Park, Y. J., Park, O., Yang, H., Slania, S., Hummers, L. K., Shah, A. A., An, H. T., Jang, J., Horton, M. R., Shin, J., Dietz, H. C., Song, E., Na, D. H., Park, E. J., Kim, K., Lee, K. C., Roschke, V. V., ... Lee, S. (2019). Targeting of dermal myofibroblasts through death receptor 5 arrests fibrosis in mouse models of scleroderma. Nature Communications, 10(1), Article 1128. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09101-4

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Targeting of dermal myofibroblasts through death receptor 5 arrests fibrosis in mouse models of scleroderma

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