Despite previous research suggesting that NLRC3 may not exhibit differential expression in SLE and normal tissue (Shao et al., 2016), chondrocytes treated with triptoquinone A and triptoquinone B were scrutinized utilizing quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and Western blot analyses (Fig. 6). Here, NLRC3 is linked to systemic lupus erythematosus.