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Ablation of the Sam68 RNA Binding Protein Protects Mice from Age-Related Bone Loss

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Richard, Stéphane, Torabi, Nazi, Franco, Gladys Valverde, Tremblay, Guy A, Chen, Taiping, Vogel, Gillian, Morel, Mélanie, Cléroux, Patrick +7 more·2005·PLoS Genetics

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The Src substrate associated in mitosis of 68 kDa (Sam68) is a KH-type RNA binding protein that has been shown to regulate several aspects of RNA metabolism; however, its physiologic role has remained elusive. Herein we report the generation of Sam68-null mice by homologous recombination. Aged Sam68-/- mice preserved their bone mass, in sharp contrast with 12-month-old wild-type littermates in which bone mass was decreased up to approximately 75%. In fact, the bone volume of the 12-month-old Sam68-/- mice was virtually indistinguishable from that of 4-month-old wild-type or Sam68-/- mice. Sam68-/- bone marrow stromal cells had a differentiation advantage for the osteogenic pathway. Moreover, the knockdown of Sam68 using short hairpin RNA in the embryonic mesenchymal multipotential progenitor C3H10T1/2 cells resulted in more pronounced expression of the mature osteoblast marker osteocalcin when differentiation was induced with bone morphogenetic protein-2. Cultures of mouse embryo fibroblasts generated from Sam68+/+ and Sam68-/- littermates were induced to differentiate into adipocytes with culture medium containing pioglitazone and the Sam68-/- mouse embryo fibroblasts shown to have impaired adipocyte differentiation. Furthermore, in vivo it was shown that sections of bone from 12-month-old Sam68-/- mice had few marrow adipocytes compared with their age-matched wild-type littermate controls, which exhibited fatty bone marrow. Our findings identify endogenous Sam68 as a positive regulator of adipocyte differentiation and a negative regulator of osteoblast differentiation, which is consistent with Sam68 being a modulator of bone marrow mesenchymal cell differentiation, and hence bone metabolism, in aged mice.

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  • Germline Sam68-null mice have deficits of bone metabolism, sexual organ development, motor coordination and motor learning.

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Richard, S., Torabi, N., Franco, G. V., Tremblay, G. A., Chen, T., Vogel, G., Morel, M., Cléroux, P., Forget-Richard, A., Komarova, S., Tremblay, M. L., Li, W., Li, A., Gao, Y. J., & Henderson, J. E.
Affiliations
Jewish General Hospital (CA)
Corresponding author
Richard, Stéphane
Venue
PLoS Genetics
Published
2005-12-16
Volume
1
Issue
6
Pages
e74
ISSN
  • 1553-7390 (ISSN-L)
  • 1553-7404
OpenAlex
W2046002024
Cited by
133
References
66
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FWCI
2.14
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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Funders
Canadian Institutes of Health Research (MT13377)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Bone Metabolism and Diseases
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Orthopedics and Sports Medicine › Bone health and osteoporosis research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Genetics › Mesenchymal stem cell research
Keywords
Sam68, age-related bone loss, osteogenic differentiation, adipogenesis, mesenchymal stem cells, RNA metabolism, bone metabolism, osteocalcin, bone marrow adipocytes, mesenchymal progenitor cells
MeSH terms
Animals, Bone Marrow Cells, Cell Differentiation, DNA-Binding Proteins, Female, Fibroblasts, Humans, Male, Mice, Inbred C3H, Mice, Transgenic, Osteoblasts, Osteoporosis, Phosphoproteins, Recombination, Genetic, Osteocalcin, RNA-Binding Proteins, Adipocytes, Adaptor Proteins, Signal Transducing, Mice

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