All the synovial tissue specimens for TMT relative quantitative proteomics and further experiments were obtained from the patients with RA or OA undergoing surgical joint replacement at the clinical of joint surgery (Xi'an Hong Hui Hospital, Xi'an Jiaotong University, China). The diagnosis of the patients were accorded to the criteria of the American College of Rheumatology (ACR) and European League Against Rheumatism (EULAR) in 2010.a quantitative proteomic profiling of synovial tissue obtained from RA and OA patients was carried out by using TMT labeling followed by high resolution mass spectrometry analysis. We have identified 4822 proteins out of which 510 proteins were found to be differentially expressed by ≥1.2 fold change in the synovial tissue from RA verses OA patients.