Osteocyte-Intrinsic TGF-β Signaling Regulates Bone Quality through Perilacunar/Canalicular Remodeling

作者：Neha S. Dole, Courtney M. Mazur, Claire Acevedo, Justin P. Lopez, David A. Monteiro, Tristan W. Fowler, Bernd Gludovatz, Flynn Walsh, Jenna N. Regan, Sara A. Messina, Daniel S. Evans, Thomas Lang, Bin Zhang, Robert O. Ritchie, Khalid S. Mohammad, Tamara Alliston · 发表于：Cell Reports · 年份：2017 · DOI：10.1016/j.celrep.2017.10.115 · 被引用次数：178 · 研究领域：Bone Metabolism and Diseases、Bone health and osteoporosis research、TGF-β signaling in diseases

Poor bone quality contributes to bone fragility in diabetes, aging, and osteogenesis imperfecta. However, the mechanisms controlling bone quality are not well understood, contributing to the current lack of strategies to diagnose or treat bone quality deficits. Transforming growth factor beta (TGF-β) signaling is a crucial mechanism known to regulate the material quality of bone, but its cellular target in this regulation is unknown. Studies showing that osteocytes directly remodel their perilacunar/canalicular matrix led us to hypothesize that TGF-β controls bone quality through perilacunar/canalicular remodeling (PLR). Using inhibitors and mice with an osteocyte-intrinsic defect in TGF-β signaling (TβRII ocy−/− ), we show that TGF-β regulates PLR in a cell-intrinsic manner to control bone quality. Altogether, this study emphasizes that osteocytes are key in executing the biological control of bone quality through PLR, thereby highlighting the fundamental role of osteocyte-mediated PLR in bone homeostasis and fragility.