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    New York, NY [u.a.] : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Physiology 158 (1994), S. 467-475 
    ISSN: 0021-9541
    Keywords: Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Medicine
    Notes: MC3T3-E1 cells in culture exhibit a temporal sequence of development similar to in vivo bone formation. To examine whether the developmental expression of the osteoblast phenotype depends on serum derived factors, we compared the timedependent expression of alkaline phosphatase (ALP)-a marker of osteoblastic maturation- in MC3T3-E1 cells grown in the presence of fetal bovine serum (FBS) or resin/charcoal-stripped (AXC) serum. ALP was assessed by measuring enzyme activity, immunoblotting, and Northern analysis. Growth of MC3T3-E1 cells in FBS resulted in the programmed upregulation of alkaline phosphatase (ALP) post-proliferatively during osteoblast differentiation. In the presence of complete serum, actively proliferating cells during the initial culture period expressed low ALP levels consistent with their designation as pre-osteoblasts, whereas postmitotic cultures upregulated ALP protein, message, and enzyme activity. In addition, undifferentiated early cultures of MC3T3-E1 cells were refractory to forskolin (FSK) stimulation of ALP, but became forskolin responsive following prolonged culture in FBS containing media. In contrast, MC3T3-E1 cells grown in AXC serum displayed limited growth and failed to show a time-dependent increase in alkaline phosphatase. Neither the addition of IGF-I to AXC serum to augment cell number or plating at high density restored the time-dependent upregulation of alkaline phosphatase. Cells incubated in AXC serum for 14 days, however, though expressing low alkaline phosphatase levels, maintained the capacity to upregulate ALP after FBS re-addition or forskolin activation of cAMP-dependent pathways. Such time-dependent acquisition of FSK responsiveness and serum stimulation of ALP expression only in mature osteoblasts indicate the possible presence of differentiation switches that impart competency for a subset of osteoblast developmental events that require complete serum for maximal expression. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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  • 2
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    New York, N.Y. : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 55 (1994), S. 310-320 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: osteoblast differentiation ; gene regulation ; signal transduction pathways ; osteocalcin ; bHLH proteins ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Control of osteoblast growth and development can be characterized from receptor mediated events to nuclear messengers controlling gene transcription. From this analysis it is possible to formulate a model to explain the reciprocal relationship between growth and differentiation as well as differential cytokine modulation of osteoblast function. Central to this model are putative tissue specific transcriptional switches (possibly of the bHLH gene superfamily) that may repress proliferation and permit the regulation of mature osteoblast phenotypic characteristics. This model proposes that in post-mitotic differentiated osteoblasts, tissue specific transcription factors determine the capacity to express osteoblastic characteristic, whereas receptor activated signalling cascades, namely, cAMP/protein kinase A, receptor serine/threonine kinase, and vitamin D receptor-dependent pathways, regulate mature osteoblast-specific gene expression. Activated differentiation switches also may feedback to transcriptionally repress proliferation. Conversely, in preosteoblasts, in which differentiation switches are turned off, distinct signalling cascades involving tyrosine kinases, PKC, and calcium/calmodulin regulate proliferation. Proliferating preosteoblasts also exhibit negative modulation of maturation either through inactivation of putative tissue-specific transcription factors and/or through AP-1 dependent phenotype suppression of genes expressed in mature osteoblast. Thus, the final outcome of transcriptional regulation of osteoblast function results from complex interactions between signalling pathways and permissive differentiating transcription factors. Though many aspects of this model remain speculative and require confirmation, it serves as a useful conceptual framework to further investigate the differential control of osteoblast proliferation and differentiation that may lead to improved pharmacologic ways to manipulate bone formation in vivo. © 1994 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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  • 3
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: cation-sensing receptor ; BoPCaR ; diacyglycerol ; gadolinium ; fluoroaluminate ; de nove bone formation ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Alumminium (Al3+) stimulates de novo bono formation in dogs and is a potent stimulate for DNA synthesis in non-transformed osteoblast in vitro. The recent identification of a G-protein couplked cation-sensing recepector(BoPCaR), which is activated by polycalant agonists [e.g., gadolinium (Gd3+) 〉 neomycin 〉 calcium(CA3+)], suggests that a similer physiologically inportant cation sensing receptor may be presant in obsoblasts and pharmacologically activated by Al3+. To evalute that possibility, we assessed whether known as BoPCaR agonists on DNA synthesis in a dose-dependent fashion, achiving 50% effective extracelluler concennetration (EC50) of 10 μM, 30 μM, 60 μM, and 2.5 mM, respectively. Al3+ displayed non-additive effect on DNA sunthesis with the BoPCAaR agonists as well as an unrelated G-porotien coupled receptor agonists, PGF2α, suggesting shared mechenisms of action. In contrast, the recepator tyrosine kinse agonist, IGF-1(10 ηg/ml), displayed additive proliferative effects when comboined with AlCl3, inducating distinct signalling pathways. AlCl3 (25 μM) induced DAG levels 2-fold and the phosphorylation of the myristoylated alanine-rich C kinase (MARKS) substrates 4-fold, but did not increase intracelluler calcium concenitrations. Doen-regardation of PKC by pre-treatment with phorbol 12-myristate 13-acetate as well as PKC inhebitation by H-7 and staurosporine blocked Al3+ -inducing DNA synthesis. Finally, Al3+, Gd3+, nemomycin, and Ca2+ activated G-proteins inn osteoblast membrans as evidenced by increased colvant binding pf [32P]-GTP-azidoanilide to putaitve Gα subunits. Our findings suggests that Al3+ stimulates DNA synthesis in ostoblasts through a cation sansing mechnism coupled to G-protein activation and signalling cascades involvings DAG and PCK- dependent pathways.
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    New York, N.Y. : Wiley-Blackwell
    Journal of Cellular Biochemistry 65 (1997), S. 11-24 
    ISSN: 0730-2312
    Keywords: basic helix-loop-helix proteins ; E-box ; differentiation ; transcription ; transfection ; osteocalcin ; ld ; Life and Medical Sciences ; Cell & Developmental Biology
    Source: Wiley InterScience Backfile Collection 1832-2000
    Topics: Biology , Chemistry and Pharmacology , Medicine
    Notes: Osteoblasts undergo a temporal sequence of development characterized by transcriptional upregulation of osteoblast-specific genes. Basic helix-loop-helix (bHLH) transcription factors may control this developmental process through binding to E-box cis-acting elements in developmentally regulated genes. To investigate the role of bHLH proteins in MC3T3-E1 osteoblasts, which undergo a developmental sequence in vitro, we analyzed the transcriptional control of osteocalcin gene expression by stable transfection of an osteocalcin promoter-luciferase chimeric gene (p637OC-luc) and assessed the role of E-box cis-acting elements in osteocalcin promoter by DNA binding assays. We compared our findings in MC3T3-E1 osteoblasts with transient DNA transfections and DNA binding assays. We compared our findings in MC3T3-E1 osteoblasts with transient DNA transfections and DNA binding experiments in Ros 17/2.8 osteoblasts. We found that the activity of 637-OC luciferase promoter was low in undifferentiated 5-day-old cultures but increased in parallel with endogenous osteocalcin message expression in mature MC3T3-E1 osteoblasts, consistent with developmental stage-specific transcriptional upregulation of the osteocalcin gene. We identified two putative E-box elements in the proximal osteocalcin promoter, E-box 1 (CACATG) at - 102 and E-box 2 (CAGCTG) at position - 149. In gel mobility shift assays, factors present in nuclear extracts derived from differentiated osteoblast bound to oligonucleotide probes containing the E-box 1 and E-box 2 elements. Binding to the E-box 2 probe was not specific for the core CAGCTG element, whereas the CACATG site in E-box 1 oligonucleotide was required for specific binding of these nuclear factors. Stable transfection of p637OC-luc containing a mutant E1 site (p637OC-luc E1m), however, did not alter the developmental upregulation of osteocalcin promoter activity in MC3T3-E1 osteoblasts. Moreover, the E-box 1 mutation had no effect on either basal or vitamin D-stimulated activity of the osteocalcin promoter in Ros 17/2.8 osteoblasts in transient transfection experiments. These data suggest that osteoblasts contain undefined factors that bind to the E-box 1 CACATG site in the proximal osteocalcin promoter; however, this E-box element does not play a significant role in the developmental stage-specific regulation of the osteocalcin gene in MC3T3-E1 osteoblasts. J. Cell. Biochem. 65:11-24. © 1997 Wiley-Liss, Inc.
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