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Masci M, Wang M, Imbert L, Barnes AM, Spevak L, Lukashova L, Huang Y, Ma Y, Marini JC, Jacobsen CM, Warman ML, Boskey AL. Bone mineral properties in growing Col1a2(+/G610C) mice, an animal model of osteogenesis imperfecta. Bone 2016; 87:120-9. [PMID: 27083399 PMCID: PMC4862917 DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2016.04.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/12/2015] [Revised: 04/04/2016] [Accepted: 04/10/2016] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
Abstract
The Col1a2(+/G610C) knock-in mouse, models osteogenesis imperfecta in a large old order Amish family (OOA) with type IV OI, caused by a G-to-T transversion at nucleotide 2098, which alters the gly-610 codon in the triple-helical domain of the α2(I) chain of type I collagen. Mineral and matrix properties of the long bones and vertebrae of male Col1a2(+/G610C) and their wild-type controls (Col1a2(+/+)), were characterized to gain insight into the role of α2-chain collagen mutations in mineralization. Additionally, we examined the rescuability of the composition by sclerostin inhibition initiated by crossing Col1a2(+/G610C) with an LRP(+/A214V) high bone mass allele. At age 10-days, vertebrae and tibia showed few alterations by micro-CT or Fourier transform infrared imaging (FTIRI). At 2-months-of-age, Col1a2(+/G610C) tibias had 13% fewer secondary trabeculae than Col1a2(+/+), these were thinner (11%) and more widely spaced (20%) than those of Col1a2(+/+) mice. Vertebrae of Col1a2(+/G610C) mice at 2-months also had lower bone volume fraction (38%), trabecular number (13%), thickness (13%) and connectivity density (32%) compared to Col1(a2+/+). The cortical bone of Col1a2(+/G610C) tibias at 2-months had 3% higher tissue mineral density compared to Col1a2(+/+); Col1a2(+/G610C) vertebrae had lower cortical thickness (29%), bone area (37%) and polar moment of inertia (38%) relative to Col1a2(+/+). FTIRI analysis, which provides information on bone chemical composition at ~7μm-spatial resolution, showed tibias at 10-days did not differ between genotypes. Comparing identical bone types in Col1a2(+/G610C) to Col1a2(+/+) at 2-months-of-age, tibias showed higher mineral-to-matrix ratio in trabeculae (17%) and cortices (31%). and in vertebral cortices (28%). Collagen maturity was 42% higher at 10-days-of-age in Col1a2(+/G610C) vertebral trabeculae and in 2-month tibial cortices (12%), vertebral trabeculae (42%) and vertebral cortices (12%). Higher acid-phosphate substitution was noted in 10-day-old trabecular bone in vertebrae (31%) and in 2-month old trabecular bone in both tibia (31%) and vertebrae (4%). There was also a 16% lower carbonate-to-phosphate ratio in vertebral trabeculae and a correspondingly higher (22%) carbonate-to-phosphate ratio in 2month-old vertebral cortices. At age 3-months-of-age, male femurs with both a Col1a2(+/G610C) allele and a Lrp5 high bone mass allele (Lrp5+/A214V) showed an improvement in bone composition, presenting higher trabecular carbonate-to-phosphate ratio (18%) and lower trabecular and cortical acid-phosphate substitutions (8% and 18%, respectively). Together, these results indicate that mutant collagen α2(I) chain affects both bone quantity and composition, and the usefulness of this model for studies of potential OI therapies such as anti-sclerostin treatments.
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- Marco Masci
- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States.
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- Mineralized Tissues Laboratory, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, United States.
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- Mineralized Tissues Laboratory, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, United States.
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- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.
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- Mineralized Tissues Laboratory, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, United States.
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- Mineralized Tissues Laboratory, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, United States.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States.
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- Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Milken Institute School of Public Health, The George Washington University, Washington, DC, United States.
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- National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, United States.
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- Division of Endocrinology and Genetics, Children's Hospital Boston, Boston, MA, United States; Department of Pediatrics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
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- Orthopaedic Research Laboratories, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Boston Children's Hospital, Boston, MA, United States.
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY, United States; Mineralized Tissues Laboratory, Hospital for Special Surgery, New York, NY, United States.
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Wang J, Zhao X, Qi J, Yang C, Cheng H, Ren Y, Huang L. Eight proteins play critical roles in RCC with bone metastasis via mitochondrial dysfunction. Clin Exp Metastasis 2015; 32:605-22. [PMID: 26115722 PMCID: PMC4503866 DOI: 10.1007/s10585-015-9731-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/20/2014] [Accepted: 06/17/2015] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
Abstract
Most kidney cancers are renal cell carcinomas (RCC). RCC lacks early warning signs and 70 % of patients with RCC develop metastases. Among them, 50 % of patients having skeletal metastases developed a dismal survival of less than 10 % at 5 years. Therefore, exploring the key driving proteins and pathways involved in RCC bone metastasis could benefit patients’ therapy and prolong their survival. We examined the difference between the OS-RC-2 cells and the OS-RC-2-BM5 cells (subpopulation from OS-RC-2) of RCC with proteomics. Then we employed Western-blot, immunohistochemistry and the clinical database (oncomine) to screen and verify the key proteins and then we analyzed the functions and the related pathways of selected key proteins with system biology approaches. Our proteomic data revealed 26 significant changed spots (fold change <0.5 and >1.9, P < 0.05) between two cells. The Western blotting results validated for these identified spots were consistent with the proteomics’. From the public clinical database, 23 out of 26 proteins were connected with RCC metastases and 9 out of 23 with survival time directly (P < 0.05). Finally, only 8 out of 9 proteins had significantly positive results in tissues of RCC patients with bone metastasis compared with primary tumor (P < 0.05). System biology analyzing results showed these eight proteins mainly distributed in oxidative phosphorylation which indicates that mitochondria dysfunction played the critical role to regulate cells metastasis. Our article used a variety of experimental techniques to find eight proteins which abnormally regulated mitochondrial function to achieve a successful induction for RCC metastasis to bone.
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MESH Headings
- Animals
- Apoptosis
- Biomarkers, Tumor/metabolism
- Blotting, Western
- Bone Neoplasms/metabolism
- Bone Neoplasms/secondary
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell/metabolism
- Carcinoma, Renal Cell/secondary
- Cell Adhesion
- Cell Cycle
- Cell Movement
- Cell Proliferation
- Electrophoresis, Gel, Two-Dimensional
- Female
- Humans
- Immunoenzyme Techniques
- Kidney Neoplasms/metabolism
- Kidney Neoplasms/pathology
- Mice
- Mice, Inbred BALB C
- Mice, Nude
- Mitochondria/metabolism
- Mitochondria/pathology
- Proteomics/methods
- Spectrometry, Mass, Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption-Ionization
- Tomography, X-Ray Computed
- Tumor Cells, Cultured
- Xenograft Model Antitumor Assays
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- Jiang Wang
- />Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jie Fang Ave 1095#, Wuhan, 430030 China
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- />Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jie Fang Ave 1095#, Wuhan, 430030 China
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- />Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jie Fang Ave 1095#, Wuhan, 430030 China
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- />Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jie Fang Ave 1095#, Wuhan, 430030 China
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- />Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jie Fang Ave 1095#, Wuhan, 430030 China
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- />Department of Orthopedics, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Jie Fang Ave 1095#, Wuhan, 430030 China
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- />Department of Information Science, School of Mathematical Sciences and LMAM, Peking University, Beijing, 100871 China
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Absence of SUN-domain protein Slp1 blocks karyogamy and switches meiotic recombination and synapsis from homologs to sister chromatids. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014; 111:E4015-23. [PMID: 25210014 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1415758111] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
Abstract
Karyogamy, the process of nuclear fusion is required for two haploid gamete nuclei to form a zygote. Also, in haplobiontic organisms, karyogamy is required to produce the diploid nucleus/cell that then enters meiosis. We identify sun like protein 1 (Slp1), member of the mid-Sad1p, UNC-84-domain ubiquitous family, as essential for karyogamy in the filamentous fungus Sordaria macrospora, thus uncovering a new function for this protein family. Slp1 is required at the last step, nuclear fusion, not for earlier events including nuclear movements, recognition, and juxtaposition. Correspondingly, like other family members, Slp1 localizes to the endoplasmic reticulum and also to its extensions comprising the nuclear envelope. Remarkably, despite the absence of nuclear fusion in the slp1 null mutant, meiosis proceeds efficiently in the two haploid "twin" nuclei, by the same program and timing as in diploid nuclei with a single dramatic exception: the normal prophase program of recombination and synapsis between homologous chromosomes, including loading of recombination and synaptonemal complex proteins, occurs instead between sister chromatids. Moreover, the numbers of recombination-initiating double-strand breaks (DSBs) and ensuing recombinational interactions, including foci of the essential crossover factor Homo sapiens enhancer of invasion 10 (Hei10), occur at half the diploid level in each haploid nucleus, implying per-chromosome specification of DSB formation. Further, the distribution of Hei10 foci shows interference like in diploid meiosis. Centromere and spindle dynamics, however, still occur in the diploid mode during the two meiotic divisions. These observations imply that the prophase program senses absence of karyogamy and/or absence of a homolog partner and adjusts the interchromosomal interaction program accordingly.
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Powell KA, Wilson D. 3-dimensional imaging modalities for phenotyping genetically engineered mice. Vet Pathol 2011; 49:106-15. [PMID: 22146851 DOI: 10.1177/0300985811429814] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/21/2022]
Abstract
A variety of 3-dimensional (3D) digital imaging modalities are available for whole-body assessment of genetically engineered mice: magnetic resonance microscopy (MRM), X-ray microcomputed tomography (microCT), optical projection tomography (OPT), episcopic and cryoimaging, and ultrasound biomicroscopy (UBM). Embryo and adult mouse phenotyping can be accomplished at microscopy or near microscopy spatial resolutions using these modalities. MRM and microCT are particularly well-suited for evaluating structural information at the organ level, whereas episcopic and OPT imaging provide structural and functional information from molecular fluorescence imaging at the cellular level. UBM can be used to monitor embryonic development longitudinally in utero. Specimens are not significantly altered during preparation, and structures can be viewed in their native orientations. Technologies for rapid automated data acquisition and high-throughput phenotyping have been developed and continually improve as this exciting field evolves.
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- K A Powell
- Small Animal Imaging Shared Resource, The James Comprehensive Cancer Center Department of Biomedical Informatics, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA.
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