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Cornish J, Grey A, Callon KE, Naot D, Hill BL, Lin CQX, Balchin LM, Reid IR. Shared pathways of osteoblast mitogenesis induced by amylin, adrenomedullin, and IGF-1. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004; 318:240-6. [PMID: 15110779 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2004.04.020] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2004] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Amylin and adrenomedullin, members of the calcitonin peptide family, are anabolic to bone. Here, we report overlapping molecular mechanisms by which amylin, adrenomedullin, and IGF-1 induce osteoblast proliferation. Co-treatment of osteoblastic cells with amylin or adrenomedullin and IGF-1 failed to induce an additive mitogenic effect. In osteoblastic cells, neutralization of the IGF-1 receptor blocked the proliferative effects of amylin and adrenomedullin, while neutralization of IGF-1 did not. Neither amylin- nor adrenomedullin-induced mitogenic signaling or cell proliferation in IGF-1 receptor-null fibroblasts. In addition, amylin and adrenomedullin receptor blockers inhibited the proliferative effects of IGF-1 in osteoblastic cells. These findings demonstrate overlap in the molecular mechanisms by which amylin, adrenomedullin, and IGF-1 induce mitogenesis in osteoblasts, and an important role for the IGF-1 receptor in the mitogenic actions of amylin and adrenomedullin. Our findings are potentially important in refining these peptides for the therapy of osteoporosis.
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- Jillian Cornish
- Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Staines DR. Is osteoporosis linked to vaccinations and Gulf War Syndrome? Med Hypotheses 2004; 62:670-3. [PMID: 15082087 DOI: 10.1016/j.mehy.2004.01.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2004] [Accepted: 01/21/2004] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Gulf War Syndrome (GWS) remains a contentious diagnosis with conflicting laboratory investigations and lack of a biologically plausible aetiology. Assertions have been made that GWS may be the result of vaccinations given to serving military personnel in the Persian Gulf and may be associated with osteoporosis. Calcitonin gene related protein (CGRP) is a vasoactive neuropeptide that is synthesised in conjunction with calcitonin gene expression. Vasoactive neuropeptides act as hormones, neurotransmitters, immune modulators and neurotrophes. They are readily catalysed to small peptide fragments. They and their binding sites are immunogenic and are known to be associated with a range of autoimmune conditions. This paper describes a biologically plausible mechanism for the development of osteoporosis in the context of GWS based on loss of immunological tolerance to the vasoactive neuropeptide CGRP or its receptors following a variety of antigenic events.
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- Donald R Staines
- Gold Coast Public Health Unit, 10-12 Young Street, Southport 4215, Queensland, Australia.
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This study examines if cultured chondrocytes and perichondrial cells change the level of cAMP and/or cGMP in response to application of the neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP). Cells collected from the knee region of 4-8 days old rat pups were cultured in vitro. Cultures were exposed to 10(-10)-10(-6) M CGRP during 10 minutes. The levels of cyclic adenosine monophosphate (cAMP) and cyclic guanosine monophosphate (cGMP) in the cultures and in controls were determined by radioimmunoassay. The results show that application of CGRP causes a distinctly increased level of cAMP, that was absent when CGRP was applied together with the CGRP(1) receptor antagonist. The level of cGMP was not obviously altered. Hence, it is possible that terminals of primary sensory neurones present in developing cartilage influence chondrocytes and perichondrial cells via local release of CGRP.
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- K Edoff
- Division of Cell Biology, Department of Biomedicine and Surgery, Faculty of Health Sciences, Linköping University, S-581 85, Linköping, Sweden
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Kawase T, Okuda K, Burns DM. Immature human osteoblastic MG63 cells predominantly express a subtype 1-like CGRP receptor that inactivates extracellular signal response kinase by a cAMP-dependent mechanism. Eur J Pharmacol 2003; 470:125-37. [PMID: 12798950 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(03)01763-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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Although accumulated data suggest that calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) produces anabolic effects in skeletal tissue by directly acting on osteogenic cells, neither the distribution of CGRP receptor subtypes nor the associated cellular signaling pathways are well understood. In this study, we have pharmacologically and biochemically characterized CGRP-binding sites in immature human osteoblastic MG63 cells. In a [125I]CGRP whole-cell-binding assay, nonlinear regression curve-fitting analysis demonstrated a single binding site (K(D)=405+/-29 pM; 13,100+/-223 sites per cell). Immunocytochemical and Western blot analyses demonstrated that 48-, 52-, and 120-kDa forms of the calcitonin receptor-like receptor (CRLR) and a 15-kDa form of the receptor-activity-modifying protein-1 (RAMP-1) was expressed on the plasma membrane. CGRP strongly stimulated cellular cAMP production and this effect was antagonized not only by an antagonist of the subtype-1 CGRP (CGRP(1)) receptor, CGRP-(8-37), but by an agonist of the putative subtype-2 CGRP (CGRP(2)) receptor, [Cys(Acm)(2,7)]-CGRP, that also itself acted as a weak agonist. In contrast to published data, CGRP dose- and time-dependently dephosphorylated and inactivated extracellular signal response kinase (ERK). This action was blocked by CGRP-(8-37), by an inhibitor of cAMP-dependent protein kinase (H-89), or by an inhibitor of protein phosphatases (vanadate). Prolonged CGRP treatments significantly suppressed DNA synthesis at 27 h, but up-regulated type I collagen. Both these actions were blocked by CGRP-(8-37) and mimicked by a specific inhibitor of ERK (PD98059). In summary, our data suggest that the CGRP receptors in MG63 cells meet many, but not all, of the classical criteria used to define CGRP(1) receptors. These receptors that functioned in a pharmacologically distinct manner could inhibit cell proliferation, and were substantially more sensitive to a CGRP(2) receptor agonist than are typical CGRP(1) receptors. These receptor proteins were not exactly matched with the known components of a CGRP(1) receptor that have been reported. Therefore, it is possible that the CGRP receptors expressed in immature osteoblastic human MG63 cells represent a variation of the known CGRP(1) receptor.
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- Tomoyuki Kawase
- Department of Signal Transduction Research, Division of Cellular Pharmacology, Graduate School of Medical and Dental Sciences, Niigata University, 2-5274 Gakkocho-dori, 951-8514, Niigata, Japan.
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Bone growth and maintenance are highly regulated processes. Throughout life, bone constantly undergoes remodelling, maintaining a balance between bone formation by osteoblasts and bone resorption by osteoclasts. This balance depends on the coordinated activities of many systemic hormones and locally acting factors in the bone microenvironment. Understanding the mechanisms of action of these factors provides a better appreciation of the cellular and molecular basis of bone remodelling. Adrenomedullin has recently been found to stimulate the proliferation of osteoblasts in vitro, and to increase indices of bone formation when administered either locally or systemically in vivo. Adrenomedullin receptors, as well as adrenomedullin itself, are expressed in primary osteoblasts and in osteoblast-like cell lines. In this paper we discuss the anabolic effect of adrenomedullin in bone, and present new evidence for a possible role of adrenomedullin in the regulation of cartilage cells. We show that adrenomedullin stimulates proliferation of primary chondrocytes in culture and that mRNA for adrenomedullin and for adrenomedullin receptors are expressed in these cells. Studies of structure-activity relationships have demonstrated that osteotropic effects of adrenomedullin can be retained in peptide fragments of the molecule which lack the parent molecule's vasodilatory properties. Thus, these small peptides, or their analogues, are attractive candidates as anabolic therapies for osteoporosis.
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- J Cornish
- Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Private Bag 92019, Auckland, New Zealand.
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Hoff AO, Catala-Lehnen P, Thomas PM, Priemel M, Rueger JM, Nasonkin I, Bradley A, Hughes MR, Ordonez N, Cote GJ, Amling M, Gagel RF. Increased bone mass is an unexpected phenotype associated with deletion of the calcitonin gene. J Clin Invest 2003. [PMID: 12488435 DOI: 10.1172/jci200214218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 109] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Calcitonin (CT) is a known inhibitor of bone resorption. Calcitonin gene-related peptide-alpha (CGRPalpha), produced by alternative RNA processing of the CT/CGRP gene, has no clearly defined role in bone. To better understand the physiologic role of the CT/CGRP gene we created a mouse in which the coding sequences for both CT and CGRPalpha were deleted by homologous recombination. The CT/CGRP(-/-) knockout (KO) mice procreated normally, there were no identifiable developmental defects at birth, and they had normal baseline calcium-related chemistry values. However, KO animals were more responsive to exogenous human parathyroid hormone as evidenced by a greater increase of the serum calcium concentration and urine deoxypyridinoline crosslinks, an effect reversed by CT and mediated by a greater increase in bone resorption than in controls. Surprisingly, KO mice have significantly greater trabecular bone volume and a 1.5- to 2-fold increase in bone formation at 1 and 3 months of age. This effect appears to be mediated by increased bone formation. In addition, KO mice maintain bone mass following ovariectomy, whereas wild-type mice lose approximately one-third of their bone mass over 2 months. These findings argue for dual roles for CT/CGRP gene products: prevention of bone resorption in hypercalcemic states and a regulatory role in bone formation.
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- Ana O Hoff
- Department of Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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Hoff AO, Catala-Lehnen P, Thomas PM, Priemel M, Rueger JM, Nasonkin I, Bradley A, Hughes MR, Ordonez N, Cote GJ, Amling M, Gagel RF. Increased bone mass is an unexpected phenotype associated with deletion of the calcitonin gene. J Clin Invest 2002; 110:1849-57. [PMID: 12488435 PMCID: PMC151647 DOI: 10.1172/jci14218] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Calcitonin (CT) is a known inhibitor of bone resorption. Calcitonin gene-related peptide-alpha (CGRPalpha), produced by alternative RNA processing of the CT/CGRP gene, has no clearly defined role in bone. To better understand the physiologic role of the CT/CGRP gene we created a mouse in which the coding sequences for both CT and CGRPalpha were deleted by homologous recombination. The CT/CGRP(-/-) knockout (KO) mice procreated normally, there were no identifiable developmental defects at birth, and they had normal baseline calcium-related chemistry values. However, KO animals were more responsive to exogenous human parathyroid hormone as evidenced by a greater increase of the serum calcium concentration and urine deoxypyridinoline crosslinks, an effect reversed by CT and mediated by a greater increase in bone resorption than in controls. Surprisingly, KO mice have significantly greater trabecular bone volume and a 1.5- to 2-fold increase in bone formation at 1 and 3 months of age. This effect appears to be mediated by increased bone formation. In addition, KO mice maintain bone mass following ovariectomy, whereas wild-type mice lose approximately one-third of their bone mass over 2 months. These findings argue for dual roles for CT/CGRP gene products: prevention of bone resorption in hypercalcemic states and a regulatory role in bone formation.
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- Ana O Hoff
- Department of Endocrine Neoplasia and Hormonal Disorders, University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, Houston, Texas, USA
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Imai S, Matsusue Y. Neuronal regulation of bone metabolism and anabolism: calcitonin gene-related peptide-, substance P-, and tyrosine hydroxylase-containing nerves and the bone. Microsc Res Tech 2002; 58:61-9. [PMID: 12203704 DOI: 10.1002/jemt.10119] [Citation(s) in RCA: 96] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Bone alters its metabolic and anabolic activities in response to the variety of systemic and local factors such as hormones and growth factors. Classical observations describing abundance of the nerves fibers in bone also predict a paradigm that the nervous system influences bone metabolism and anabolism. Identification of the nerve-derived signaling molecules, capable of modulating cellular activities of the bone cells, facilitates a novel approach to study the biology of skeletal innervation. Many of the signaling molecules that may act as efferent agents on the bone cells fall into the category of neuropeptides. The present article reviews current understanding of the skeletal innervation and their proposed physiological effects on bone metabolism, with a special interest to calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP)-containing nerves fibers. CGRP is abundantly distributed in bone via sensory nerves, especially in the epiphyseal trabecular bones. Its in vitro actions to the cultured osteoblasts and osteoclasts, together with its in vivo localization, strongly support the paradigm that the nervous system influences bone metabolism. In addition, CGRP is recently shown to be expressed endogenously by the osteoblasts. Transgenic mice with osteoblasts overexpressing CGRP are characterized by increased bone formation rate and enhanced bone volume, suggesting that CGRP indeed acts on bone metabolism not only via nervous route but also via autocrine loop. The current article also reviews the distribution of nerve fibers containing substance P (SP), another sensory nerve-specific neuropeptide, and tyrosine hydroxylase (TH), the rate-limiting enzyme of catecholamine. The distinct effects of SP and catecholamines on the bone cells together with their in vivo influences manifested by experimental denervation studies suggest that the sensory and sympathetic nerves play important roles in bone metabolism.
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- Shinji Imai
- Department of Orthopeadic Surgery, Shiga University of Medical Science, Setatsukinowa-cho, Otsu-city, 520-2192, Shiga-ken, Japan.
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DUVAIL L, FOUCHEREAU-PERON M. Calcium metabolism related markers during the growth ofHaliotis tuberculata. INVERTEBR REPROD DEV 2001. [DOI: 10.1080/07924259.2001.9652720] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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- T L McCarthy
- Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, PO Box 208041, New Haven, CT 06520-8041, USA.
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Villa I, Melzi R, Pagani F, Ravasi F, Rubinacci A, Guidobono F. Effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide and amylin on human osteoblast-like cells proliferation. Eur J Pharmacol 2000; 409:273-8. [PMID: 11108821 DOI: 10.1016/s0014-2999(00)00872-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 41] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Expression of mRNA for calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and CGRP receptor has been detected in osteoblasts indicating that CGRP could play a role in bone metabolism. In the present study, we evaluated the effect of CGRP on primary culture of human osteoblast-like cells proliferation. The peptide was able to stimulate [3H]thymidine incorporation in human osteoblast-like cells with a maximal effect at 10(-8) M. The proliferating activity of CGRP was not inhibited by the two antagonists, CGRP-(8-37) or amylin-(8-37), whereas amylin fragment antagonized the proliferating activity of amylin. In human osteoblast-like cells CGRP, but not amylin, was able to stimulate adenylyl cyclase activity and this effect was completely antagonized only by CGRP-(8-37) and not by amylin-(8-37). These data suggest that the CGRP induced stimulation of cAMP is not involved in the peptide proliferating effect in human osteoblast-like cells and that in this cell population there are receptor subtypes for CGRP, distinct from that of amylin.
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- I Villa
- Bone Metabolic Unit, Scientific Institute H San Raffaele, Milan, Italy
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Yamashiro T, Fujiyama K, Fujiyoshi Y, Inaguma N, Takano-Yamamoto T. Inferior alveolar nerve transection inhibits increase in osteoclast appearance during experimental tooth movement. Bone 2000; 26:663-9. [PMID: 10831939 DOI: 10.1016/s8756-3282(00)00282-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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To evaluate the role of sensory nerve innervation in alveolar bone remodeling during experimental tooth movement, we investigated histomorphometrically the influence of sensory nerve denervation on bone metabolism. Seven days after inferior alveolar nerve (IAN) transection or a sham operation in rats, orthodontic force was applied to the animals by inserting an elastic module interproximally between the lower first molar and second molar. Twenty-four hours after the application of the orthodontic force, osteoclast number, osteoclast surface, and osteoblast surface were measured on the trabecular bone surface in the interradicular septum of the lower second molar. The distribution of sensory nerve fibers immunoreactive to antibody against calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) was also evaluated. In the sham-operated rats, CGRP-immunoreactive nerves were observed to be distributed along the blood vessels in the trabecular alveolar bone. Experimental tooth movement resulted in a fivefold increase in the number of osteoclasts and in increased immunoreactivity of nerves to anti-CGRP in the trabecular bone. However, IAN transection depleted the immunoreactivity to anti-CGRP and reduced the osteoclast number and osteoclast surface significantly. On the other hand, in the rats that were not subjected to experimental tooth movement, there was no significant difference in osteoclast number between sham-operated and IAN-transected rats. Significant changes were not observed in osteoblast surfaces associated with experimental tooth movement or nerve transection. These findings suggest that sensory nerves play an important role in regulating bone resorptive activity during experimental tooth movement.
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- T Yamashiro
- Department of Orthodontics, Okayama University Dental School, Okayama, Japan
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Millet I, Phillips RJ, Sherwin RS, Ghosh S, Voll RE, Flavell RA, Vignery A, Rincón M. Inhibition of NF-kappaB activity and enhancement of apoptosis by the neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide. J Biol Chem 2000; 275:15114-21. [PMID: 10809748 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.275.20.15114] [Citation(s) in RCA: 75] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a neuropeptide produced by the central and peripheral nervous systems and by endocrine cells. CGRP exerts diverse biological effects on the cardiovascular, gastrointestinal, respiratory, central nervous and immune systems. Little is known, however, about the molecular mechanisms that mediate CGRP effects. Using the NFkappaB-luciferase reporter transgenic mice, here we show that CGRP selectively inhibits NF-kappaB-mediated transcription in thymocytes in vitro and in vivo. In contrast, CGRP does not affect transcription mediated by the AP-1 and NFAT transcription factors. CGRP inhibits the accumulation of NF-kappaB complexes in the nucleus by preventing phosphorylation and degradation of the NF-kappaB inhibitor IkappaB. Inhibition of NF-kappaB activity is associated with the induction of apoptosis by CGRP in thymocytes. Together these results demonstrate for the first time the selective implication of the NF-kappaB signaling pathway in the regulatory function of the neuropeptide CGRP. Our study suggests a potential molecular mechanism by which CGRP can induce cell death in thymocytes.
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- I Millet
- Department of Internal Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
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McCarthy TL, Ji C, Chen Y, Kim K, Centrella M. Time- and dose-related interactions between glucocorticoid and cyclic adenosine 3',5'-monophosphate on CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein-dependent insulin-like growth factor I expression by osteoblasts. Endocrinology 2000; 141:127-37. [PMID: 10614631 DOI: 10.1210/endo.141.1.7237] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Glucocorticoid has complex effects on osteoblasts. Several of these changes appear to be related to steroid concentration, duration of exposure, or specific effects on growth factor expression or activity within bone. One important bone growth factor, insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I), is induced in osteoblasts by hormones such as PGE2 that increase intracellular cAMP levels. In this way, PGE2 activates transcription factor CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein-delta (C/EBPdelta) and enhances its binding to a specific control element found in exon 1 in the IGF-I gene. Our current studies show that preexposure to glucocorticoid enhanced C/EBPdelta and C/EBPbeta expression by osteoblasts and thereby potentiated IGF-I gene promoter activation in response to PGE2. Importantly, this directly contrasts with inhibitory effects on IGF-I expression that result from sustained or pharmacologically high levels of glucocorticoid exposure. Consistent with the stimulatory effect of IGF-I on bone protein synthesis, pretreatment with glucocorticoid sensitized osteoblasts to PGE2, and in this context significantly enhanced new collagen and noncollagen protein synthesis. Therefore, pharmacological levels of glucocorticoid may reduce IGF-I expression by osteoblasts and cause osteopenic disease, whereas physiological transient increases in glucocorticoid may permit or amplify the effectiveness of hormones that regulate skeletal tissue integrity. These events appear to converge on the important role of C/EBPdelta and C/EBPbeta on IGF-I expression by osteoblasts.
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- T L McCarthy
- Department of Surgery, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut 06520-8041, USA.
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Cornish J, Callon KE, Lin CQ, Xiao CL, Gamble GD, Cooper GJ, Reid IR. Comparison of the effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide and amylin on osteoblasts. J Bone Miner Res 1999; 14:1302-9. [PMID: 10457262 DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.1999.14.8.1302] [Citation(s) in RCA: 92] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) and amylin are homologous 37-amino-acid peptides which have been demonstrated to have anabolic effects on bone. It is not clear whether these effects are mediated by a common receptor, nor is it known which ligand is the more potent. These questions are addressed in the present study using cultures of fetal rat osteoblasts. CGRP increased cell number when present in a concentration >/=10-9 M, but 10-8 M CGRP was required to stimulate thymidine and phenylalanine incorporation. Amylin was effective on these indices at 100-fold lower concentrations, and its maximal effects were about twice as great as those of CGRP. ED50's for the effects of amylin and CGRP on cell number were 10-12 M and 10-10 M, respectively. There was no additivity between maximal doses of the peptides on these indices. The effects of specific receptor blockers on the maximal stimulation of cell number by these peptides were also studied. The CGRP receptor-blocker, CGRP-(8-37), completely blocked the effect of CGRP at blocker concentrations >/=10-9 M. In contrast, the amylin receptor blocker, amylin-(8-37), completely blocked the effects of CGRP when the blocker was present in concentrations as low as 10-11 M. The KI of CGRP-(8-37) was 2 x 10-10 M and that of amylin-(8-37) was 7 x 10-12 M. In converse experiments studying the blockade of maximal doses of amylin, amylin-(8-37) 10-10 M was effective (KI 1 x 10-10 M), whereas a 100-fold greater concentration of CGRP-(8-37) was necessary to achieve the same effect (KI 6 x 10-9 M). It is concluded that amylin and CGRP probably act through a common receptor to stimulate osteoblast growth, and that this receptor has a higher affinity for amylin than for CGRP.
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- J Cornish
- Department of Medicine, University of Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Ballica R, Valentijn K, Khachatryan A, Guerder S, Kapadia S, Gundberg C, Gilligan J, Flavell RA, Vignery A. Targeted expression of calcitonin gene-related peptide to osteoblasts increases bone density in mice. J Bone Miner Res 1999; 14:1067-74. [PMID: 10404006 DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.1999.14.7.1067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 91] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/18/2022]
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The neuropeptide calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is concentrated in fine sensory nerve endings innervating all tissues, including bone. CGRP inhibits osteoclasts, stimulates insulin-like growth factor I and inhibits tumor necrosis factor alpha production by osteoblasts in vitro. To investigate the role of CGRP in bone in vivo, mice were engineered to express CGRP in osteoblasts by placing the human CGRP gene under the control of the rat osteocalcin promoter (Ost-CGRP tg+ mice). Calvaria cultures from transgene positive (tg+), but not tg- mice, produced bioactive CGRP. Trabecular bone density and bone volume, determined by peripheral quantitative computed tomography and bone histomorphometry, respectively, were higher in tg+ than tg- littermates. This increase in bone volume was associated with an increased bone formation rate. Trabecular bone density decreased in tg+ mice as a result of ovariectomy, but remained higher than in sham tg- mice. Targeting CGRP to osteoblasts appears to favor the establishment of a higher trabecular bone mass in mice.
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- R Ballica
- Yale University School of Medicine, Department of Orthopaedics and Rehabilitation, New Haven, Connecticut 06510, USA
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Balkan W, Oates EL, Howard GA, Roos BA. Testes exhibit elevated expression of calcitonin gene-related peptide receptor component protein. Endocrinology 1999; 140:1459-69. [PMID: 10067875 DOI: 10.1210/endo.140.3.6541] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) receptor component protein (RCP) is a novel protein that modulates CGRP responsiveness in a variety of cell types. Using probes based on the isolation of CGRP-RCP complementary DNA (cDNA) from a guinea pig organ of Corti cDNA library, we cloned human (h) and mouse (m) CGRP-RCP cDNAs, both of which encode 148-residue proteins that at the amino acid levels are approximately 88% identical to each other and to the 146-residue guinea pig CGRP-RCP. Northern blot analysis confirmed the presence of CGRP-RCP messenger RNA in all of the human and mouse tissues tested. In these human tissues, hCGRP-RCP messenger RNA (major band at approximately 3.1 kb, minor band at approximately 7.5 kb) was most prevalent in the testis. In the mouse, the highest abundance of CGRP-RCP RNA was clearly in the testis (major band at approximately 1.6 kb, minor band at approximately 1.1 kb). Based on this tissue distribution of RNA, we sought to identify the cells in the murine testis that contained CGRP-RCP protein. Numerous antisera generated against hCGRP-RCP, including one to recombinant hCGRP-RCP, exhibited strong immunoreactivity localized to the head region of spermatozoa. No CGRP-RCP immunoreactivity was observed in other cells at less mature stages of sperm maturation, in Sertoli or interstitial (Leydig) cells, or in human spermatozoa. Murine epididymal (mature) spermatozoa exhibited CGRP-RCP immunoreactivity identical to that of testicular spermatozoa. Spermatozoa that underwent an experimentally induced acrosome reaction (acrosomal discharge) lost their CGRP-RCP immunoreactivity. Therefore, it appears that CGRP-RCP is associated with the acrosome, suggesting that it may play an important role in reproduction.
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- W Balkan
- Geriatric Research, Education, and Clinical Center, Veterans Affairs Medical Center, and Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Florida 33101, USA.
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Drissi H, Lasmoles F, Le Mellay V, Marie PJ, Lieberherr M. Activation of phospholipase C-beta1 via Galphaq/11 during calcium mobilization by calcitonin gene-related peptide. J Biol Chem 1998; 273:20168-74. [PMID: 9685362 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.273.32.20168] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Interaction of calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) with its receptors leads to stimulation of adenylyl cyclase and/or phospholipase C (PLC). While regulation of adenylyl cyclase is thought to involve the G-protein Gs, it is not known whether activation of PLC results from coupling the receptor to Gq family proteins or whether beta gamma subunits released from receptor-activated Gs activate PLC. We used human bone cells OHS-4 bearing CGRP receptors in which CGRP activates only the PLC signaling pathway to determine how CGRP acts. CGRP increased the concentration of intracellular calcium ([Ca2+]i) within 5 s via a Ca2+ influx through voltage-gated calcium channels and by mobilizing calcium from the endoplasmic reticulum. The activation of effectors, like PLC coupled to G-proteins, is the early event in the pathway leading to inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate formation, which is responsible for Ca2+ mobilization. Western blotting demonstrated a range of PLC-beta isoforms (beta1, beta3, beta4, but not beta2) and G-proteins (Galphaq/11 and Galphas). Only phospholipase C-beta1 is involved in the mobilization of Ca2+ from the endoplasmic reticulum of Fura-2-loaded confluent OHS-4 cells and the formation of inositol 1,4,5-trisphosphate by CGRP; PLC-gamma have no effect. Activation of PLC-beta1 by CGRP involves the Galphaq/11 subunit, which is insensitive to pertussis toxin, but not Gbeta gamma subunits. We therefore believe that CGRP causes the activation of two separate G-proteins.
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- H Drissi
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, U 349, Hôpital Lariboisière, Paris, France
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Drissi H, Hott M, Marie PJ, Lasmoles F. Expression of the CT/CGRP gene and its regulation by dibutyryl cyclic adenosine monophosphate in human osteoblastic cells. J Bone Miner Res 1997; 12:1805-14. [PMID: 9383685 DOI: 10.1359/jbmr.1997.12.11.1805] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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There is general agreement that calcitonin (CT) inhibits bone resorption by its effects on osteoclast function. CT was also found to have direct effects on osteoblast-like cells. In this study, we investigated the expression of CT and calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP), the two peptides encoded by the CT/CGRP gene, in human osteosarcoma cell lines and in normal human trabecular osteoblastic cells (HOB), and we studied the modulation of CT/CGRP gene expression by dibutyryl cyclic adenosine monophosphate ((Bu)2, cAMP), a cAMP analog. We first detected by Northern blot hybridization the presence of CT and CGRP mRNAs in different osteosarcoma cell lines (OHS-4, MG-63, Saos-2, HOS-TE85) and HOB cells. In the steady state, OHS-4 cells express slightly more CT and CGRP mRNAs than other cell lines or normal human osteoblasts, in parallel with messengers of differentiated osteoblasts, such as osteocalcin (OC) and alkaline phosphatase (ALP). OHS-4 cells also express CT and CGRP proteins, as demonstrated by immunocytochemistry. Stimulation of OHS-4 cells with 1 mM (Bu)2 cAMP induced a significant increase in mRNA levels for CT (x 2.5) and CGRP (x 3), as determined by a semi-quantitative reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) procedure. The involvement of a transcriptional mechanism in this effect was evidenced by nuclear run-off transcription assay. In addition, (Bu)2 cAMP increased OC (x 4) and ALP (x 3) mRNA levels in OHS-4 cells. These effects were observed at 24 h and were maximal at 48 h, indicating that (Bu)2, cAMP induced cell differentiation and increased the transcription of the CT/CGRP gene in OHS-4 osteoblast-like cells. The results indicate that human osteosarcoma cells and primary human osteoblastic cells express CT and CGRP mRNA and proteins, and that (Bu)2 cAMP, an activator of protein kinase A, induces up-regulation of osteoblastic phenotypic genes and enhances CT and CGRP gene transcription, indicating that induction of osteoblastic differentiation by (Bu)2 cAMP is associated with enhanced expression of CT and CGRP in human osteoblastic cells.
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- H Drissi
- INSERM U 349, Biologie cellulaire et moléculaire de l'os et du cartilage Hospital Lariboisière, Paris, France
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Valentijn K, Gutow AP, Troiano N, Gundberg C, Gilligan JP, Vignery A. Effects of calcitonin gene-related peptide on bone turnover in ovariectomized rats. Bone 1997; 21:269-74. [PMID: 9276092 DOI: 10.1016/s8756-3282(97)00142-7] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023]
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Calcitonin gene-related peptide (CGRP) is a neuropeptide abundantly concentrated in sensory nerve endings innervating bone metaphysis and periosteum, which indicates that it plays a local role in bone metabolism. CGRP-alpha and -beta share structural and functional homology with calcitonin (CT) and have been shown to inhibit bone resorption in vitro and to induce hypocalcemia in vivo. We recently reported that CGRP stimulates the production of the growth factor insulin-like growth factor-I and inhibits that of the cytokine tumor necrosis factor-alpha by osteoblasts, suggesting that CGRP may control bone cell activity. To investigate this possibility, we used ovariectomized (ovx) rats as a high bone turnover model and compared the effects of CGRP to those of CT. ovx young female rats were injected daily starting the day after surgery with either phosphate-buffered saline, CGRP-alpha (1.15 mg/kg per day), or CT (3 micrograms/kg per day) for 28 days. Ovariectomy induced an increase in bone turnover associated with a 60% loss in trabecular bone volume of the proximal tibia. CGRP inhibited bone resorption but not bone formation, and was nevertheless less efficient than CT in preventing bone loss, since CGRP-treated rats had a loss of 46% of cancellous bone, whereas CT-treated rats had a loss of 21%. This suggests that CGRP is either less potent than CT at inhibiting bone resorption or else very rapidly degraded. These data indicate that CGRP can control bone cells through a mechanism that is in part different from that of CT, and further suggest that CGRP may play a local role in bone metabolism.
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- K Valentijn
- Department of Cell Biology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT 06510, USA
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Duvail L, Lopez E, Fouchereau-Peron M. Characterization of a calcitonin gene related peptide-like molecule in the abalone, Haliotis tuberculata. COMPARATIVE BIOCHEMISTRY AND PHYSIOLOGY. PART C, PHARMACOLOGY, TOXICOLOGY & ENDOCRINOLOGY 1997; 116:155-9. [PMID: 9134700 DOI: 10.1016/s0742-8413(96)00193-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Immunoreactive related CGRP molecules (ir-CGRP) were identified in the abalone, Haliotis tuberculata, mainly in mantle and cephalic part extracts. Ir-CGRP in both tissues accounted for 461 and 455.6 pg per mg of proteins, respectively. These CGRP-immunoreactive molecules were further analyzed for their ability to interact with the CGRP radioreceptor assay. In specific target tissues for CGRP (rat liver membranes), 50% inhibition of 125I-labeled CGRP specific binding was observed with 4.7 micrograms and 21.1 micrograms of proteins from mantle and cephalic part extract, respectively. These molecules were submitted to gel-filtration chromatography on a Sephacryl S-100 column and were further analyzed in the radioreceptor assay specific for CGRP. The elution position of these molecules suggested a molecular weight close to that of synthetic salmon calcitonin.
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- L Duvail
- Station de Biologie Marine du Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle et du Collège de France, Concarneau, France
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