Osteogenesis-Related Long Noncoding RNA GAS5 as a Novel Biomarker for Osteonecrosis of Femoral Head
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ABSTRACT: Subchondral bone samples from six patients who underwent primary total hip arthroplasty (three ONFH patients and three patients in control group with femoral neck fracture) were obtained.
Project description:The crosstalk between the cartilage and subchondral bone plays a crucial role in the pathogenesis and progression of OA. The aim of this study was to identify soluble mediators released by osteoblasts that could induce the release of catabolic factors by chondrocytes. Global protein sequencing of subchondral bone samples isolated from OA patients was conducted by MS to discover potentially differently expressed protein. And the expression of candidate protein was validated by immunohistochemistry. The HCM or NCM human primary osteoblasts was used to stimulate human primary chondrocytes. Chondrocyte expression of type II collagen (COL2A1), aggrecan (ACAN), SOX9, MMP13 and MMP3 was assessed by RT-PCR. The soluble mediators released by hypoxia osteoblasts were indentified by RT-PCR, Western blotting, and Elisa. The serum concentrations of Wnt-related protein were further determined by Elisa. The proteomics and validated experiment revealed that procoagulation and hypoxia in the subchondral bone of OA. Stimulation of human primary chondrocytes with HCM significantly induced the mRNA expression of MMP13 and MMP3, and inhibited the mRNA of COL2A1, ACAN and SOX9. The identify of differential protein revealed that Wnt related protein (β-catenin) and Wnt antagonist (SOST) were up-regulated and down-regulated in hypoxia osteoblasts, separately. Furthermore, DKK-1 was significantly increased in human OA serum. The primary finding of this work was the identification that procoagulation and hypoxia in subchondral bone is the key factor of OA’s pathogenesis and progression, which facilitated chondrocyte phenotype shift towards Osteoarthritis-like, by activation Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway in osteoblasts.
Project description:Osteoarthritis (OA) is a complex degenerative joint disease, which is not only a cartilage but also a bone disease. A better understanding of the early molecular mechanism changes of subchondral bone in vivo may contribute to elucidating the pathogenesis of OA. We used microarray technology to investigate the time-course molecular changes of subchondral bone just beneath damaged cartilage in early stage of experimental osteoarthritis, and found 2,234 differentially expressed (DE) genes at 1 week, 1,944 at 2 weeks and 1,517 at 4 weeks postsurgery.Further analysis of dysregulated genes indicated that subchondral bone remodeling occurred sequentially and in a time-dependent manner at the gene expression level. Some known dysregulated genes suspected roles in influencing bone development or bone remodeling, such as Alp, Igf1, Tgf M-NM-21, Postn, Mmp3, Tnfsf11, Acp5, Bmp5, Aspn and Ihh, were confirmed by real-time PCR, and results indicated that our microarray data could accurately reflect gene expression patterns of early OA. Subsequently, to validate the results of our microarray analysis at protein level, immunohistochemistry staining was introduced to investigate the translational level of genes Mmp3 and Aspn in tissue sections, and results showed that the level of Mmp3 protein expression was totally matched the results of microarray and real-time PCR analysis. Nevertheless, the expression of Aspn protein was not observed differentially expressed at any time point. Ninety 10-week-old male Sprague-Dawley rats, weighing 300-325g, were used in the study. Animals were equally divided into two groups: experimental group (E-Group) and sham-operated group (S-Group). The E-Group rats underwent open surgery, involved in both medial meniscectomy and medial collateral ligament (MCL) transaction with micro-scissors. The S-Group rats were carried out with a sham operation, via a similar incision, without operations of the medial meniscus and the medial collateral ligament.Animals were killed at 1, 2, and 4 weeks postsurgery, and 15 animals were put into use per-timepoint in each treatment group. 5 animals were used for histological analysis and immunohistochemistry, and others were used for microarray study and Real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) analysis equally at each timepoint.
Project description:In this study, we used two workflows based on either pressure cycling technology (PCT) or ultrasonication (US) in combination with data independent acquisition (DIA) based mass spectrometry (MS) analysis to quantitatively assess the proteomes of articular cartilage and subchondral bone.
Project description:Short-read NGS technology (SOLIDTM, Life Technologies) was used to establish a comprehensive repertoire of miRNA expressed in either equine cartilage or subchondral bone. Undamaged cartilage and subchondral bone samples from 10-month Anglo-Arabian foals affected by osteochondrosis (OC) were analyzed and compared with samples from healthy foals. Samples were also subjected or not to an experimental mechanical loading to evaluate the role of miRNAs in the regulation of mechano-transduction pathways. Epiphyseal cartilage and subchondral bone miRNome were defined, including about 300 new miRNAs. Differentially expressed miRNAs were identified between bone and cartilage from healthy and OC foals, as well as after the experimental mechanical loading, suggesting that miRNAs play a role in equine OC physiopathology and in the cellular response to biomechanical stress in cartilage and bone.
Project description:Osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) is a serious genetic bone disorder characterized by congenital low bone mass, deformity and frequent fractures. Type XV OI is a moderate to severe form of skeletal dysplasia caused by WNT1 mutations. In this cohort study from southern China, we summarized the clinical phenotypes of patients with WNT1 mutations and found the proportion of type XV patients was around 10.3% (25 out of 243) with diverse phenotypic spectrums. Functional assays indicated that mutations of WNT1 significantly impaired its secretion and effective activity, leading to moderate to severe clinical manifestations, porous bone structure and enhanced osteoclastic activities. Analysis of proteomic data from human skeleton indicated that the expression of SOST was dramatically reduced in type XV patients. Single-cell transcriptome data generated from human tibia samples revealed aberrant differentiation trajectory of skeletal progenitors and impaired maturation of osteocytes, resulting in excessive CXCL12+ progenitors and abnormal cell populations with adipogenic characteristics. The integration of multi-omics data from human skeleton delineates how WNT1 regulates the differentiation and maturation of skeletal progenitors, which will provide a new direction for the treatment strategy of type XV osteogenesis imperfecta and relative low bone mass diseases such as early onset osteoporosis.
Project description:Human cartilage taken from young normal knees following anterior cruciate ligament repair and osteoarthritic cartilage following total knee arthroplasty. Total RNA extracted using mirVana miRNA isolation kit (Life Technologies). The Affymetrix Flash Tag labelling kit was used to prepare samples for hybridisation onto Affymetrix miRNA 4.0 arrays.
Project description:Human cartilage taken from young normal knees following anterior cruciate ligament repair and osteoarthritic cartilage; old normal (protected) and old osteoarthritic (unprotected) following total knee arthroplasty. Total RNA extracted using mirVana miRNA isolation kit (Life Technologies). The Affymetrix Flash Tag labelling kit was used to prepare samples for hybridisation onto Affymetrix miRNA 4.0 arrays.
Project description:To date, all of the prior osteoarthritic microarray studies in human tissue have focused on the overlying articular cartilage, meniscus, or synovium but not the underlying subchondral bone. In our previous study, our group developed a methodology for high quality RNA isolation from site-matched cartilage and bone from human knee joints, which allowed us to perform candidate gene expression analysis on the subchohndral bone (published on Osteoarthritis and Cartilage on Dec/5/2012 (doi: 10.1016/j.joca.2012.11.016). To the best of our knowledge, the current study is the first to successfully perform whole-genome microarray profiling analyses of human osteoarthritic subchondral bone. We believe our comprehensive microarray results can improve the understanding of the pathogenesis of osteoarthritis and could further contribute to the development of new biomarker and therapeutic strategies in osteoarthritis. Following histological assessment of the integrity of overlying cartilage and the severity of bone abnormality by microcomputed tomography, we isolated total RNA from regions of interest from human OA (n=20) and non-OA (n=5) knee lateral and medial tibial plateaus (LT and MT). A whole-genome profiling study was performed on an Agilent microarray platform and analyzed using Agilent GeneSpring GX11.5. Confirmatory quantitative reverse-transcription polymerase chain reaction (qRT-PCR) analysis was performed on samples from nine OA individuals to confirm differential expression of 85 genes identified by microarray. Ingenuity Pathway Analysis (IPA) was used to investigate canonical pathways and immunohistochemical staining was performed to validate protein expression levels in samples.
Project description:Ischaemic preconditioning is a method of protecting tissue against ischaemia-reperfusion injury. It is an innate protective mechanism that increases a tissue's tolerance to prolonged ischaemia when it is first subjected to short burst of ischaemia and reperfusion. It is thought to provide this protection by increasing the tissue's tolerance to ischaemia, therby reducing oxidative stress, inflammation and apoptosis in the preconditioned tissue. We used microarrays to investigate the genomic response induced by ischaemic preconditioning in muscle biopsies taken from the operative leg of total knee arthroplasty patients in order to gain insight into the ischaemic preconditioning mechanism. Patients undergoing primary knee arthroplasty were randomised to control and treatment (ischaemic preconditioning) groups. Patients in the treatment group received a preconditioning stimulus immediately prior to surgery. The ischaemic preconditioning stimulus consisted of three five-minute periods of tourniquet insufflation on the lower operative limb, interrupted by five minute periods of reperfusion. All patients had a tourniquet applied to the lower limb after the administration of spinal anaesthesia, as per normal protocol for knee arthroplasty surgery. Muscle biopsies were taken from the quadriceps muscle of the operative knee at the immediate onset of surgery (T0) and at 1 hour into surgery (T1). Total RNA was extracted from biospies of four control and four treatment patients and hybridised to the Affymetrix Human U133 2.0 chip.
Project description:Osteoarthritis (OA) is a chronic disease of the joint characterized by a progressive degradation of articular cartilage and subchondral bone. In healthy tissue, specialized cells called chondrocytes are regulating a balanced cartilage catabolism and anabolism. By contrast osteoarthritic joints are characterized by a dramatic increase of cartilage catabolism, due to changes of gene expression patterns within chondrocytes. To identify potential epigenetic differences regulating this process a genome-wide methylation screening of paired unaffected and osteoarthritic knee cartilage samples was performed. Therefore samples of macroscopic arthritic and non-arthritic cartilage areas of the femoral condyle of five female patients were collected and DNA isolation was performed. For being able to investigate methylation changes on a genome-wide scale using only limited amounts of DNA a specific amplification protocol for mainly methylated DNA has been established, based on combinations of different methylation-sensitive and M-bM-^@M-^Sindependent restriction digestions. The amplified DNA was then labeled and hybridized onto Agilent M-bM-^@M-^\Human Promoter Whole GenomeM-bM-^@M-^] microarrays. A random variance t-test for paired (per patient) samples was performed, identifying 1214 differentially methylated genetic targets between arthritic and non-arthritic samples. The biological relevance of these genes was then further investigated via Gene Ontology (GO) and KEGG pathway analysis. DNA isolated of paired arthritic and non-arthritic knee cartilage samples of five different female osteoarthritis patients (10 samples) was methylation-specifically amplified using combinations of methylation-sensitive and -insensitive restriction enzymes. Amplicons were dye labeled (Cy3) and hybridized onto 2x244k Agilent Human Promoter microarrays.