Project description:Paget’s disease of bone (PDB) is a chronic focal skeletal disorder that affects 2-3% of the population over the age of 60. PDB is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with genetic heterogeneity. SQSTM1/p62 UBA domain mutation (p62P392L) is widely identified in PDB and has been shown to increase osteoclastogenesis. Further, environmental factors such as paramyxovirus are implicated in PDB and MVNP has been shown to induce Pagetic phenotype in osteoclasts. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying p62P392L and MVNP stimulation of osteoclast differentiation in PDB are unclear. We therefore determined MVNP regulated gene expression profiling during osteoclast differentiation. We identified 8.4% of genes were upregulated (> 4-fold) in MVNP transduced cells. MVNP increased integrin β3 (63 fold), NFAT activating protein (6.5 fold), OSCAR (5.5 fold), TRAF5 (8.5 fold) mRNA expression compared to empty vector (EV) transduced cells. MVNP also elevated gene expression of cytokines/growth factors such as IL-17 (18 fold), IL-1F7 (10 fold), IL-17R (4.5 fold) and IL-11 (7 fold). Interestingly, MVNP transduced cells demonstrated high level expression of signal regulatory protein beta 1 (SIRPβ1) (353 fold). SIRPβ1 has been shown to interact with DAP 12, an ITAM containing adaptor protein which plays an important role in osteoclast differentiation. Real-time PCR analysis of total RNA isolated from normal human peripheral blood monocytes transduced with MVNP confirmed upregulation of SIRPβ1 mRNA expression in the absence of RANKL stimulation. In contrast, RANKL stimulation did not alter SIRPβ1 expression in these cells. Furthermore, bone marrow mononuclear cells derived from patients with PDB showed high levels of SIRPβ1 mRNA expression compared to normal subjects. Thus, MVNP regulated gene expression profiling during osteoclast differentiation provides new insights into molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets to control elevated osteoclast activity in PDB. Total RNA isolated from normal human bone marrow mononuclear cells transduced with EV, MVNP retroviral expression vectors and stimulated with M-CSF and RANKL for 48 h were subjected to Agilent microarray (~26,000 genes) analysis. One replicate per treatment was hybridized.

Project description:Paget’s disease of bone (PDB) is a chronic focal skeletal disorder that affects 2-3% of the population over the age of 60. PDB is inherited as an autosomal dominant trait with genetic heterogeneity. SQSTM1/p62 UBA domain mutation (p62P392L) is widely identified in PDB and has been shown to increase osteoclastogenesis. Further, environmental factors such as paramyxovirus are implicated in PDB and MVNP has been shown to induce Pagetic phenotype in osteoclasts. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying p62P392L and MVNP stimulation of osteoclast differentiation in PDB are unclear. We therefore determined MVNP regulated gene expression profiling during osteoclast differentiation. We identified 8.4% of genes were upregulated (> 4-fold) in MVNP transduced cells. MVNP increased integrin β3 (63 fold), NFAT activating protein (6.5 fold), OSCAR (5.5 fold), TRAF5 (8.5 fold) mRNA expression compared to empty vector (EV) transduced cells. MVNP also elevated gene expression of cytokines/growth factors such as IL-17 (18 fold), IL-1F7 (10 fold), IL-17R (4.5 fold) and IL-11 (7 fold). Interestingly, MVNP transduced cells demonstrated high level expression of signal regulatory protein beta 1 (SIRPβ1) (353 fold). SIRPβ1 has been shown to interact with DAP 12, an ITAM containing adaptor protein which plays an important role in osteoclast differentiation. Real-time PCR analysis of total RNA isolated from normal human peripheral blood monocytes transduced with MVNP confirmed upregulation of SIRPβ1 mRNA expression in the absence of RANKL stimulation. In contrast, RANKL stimulation did not alter SIRPβ1 expression in these cells. Furthermore, bone marrow mononuclear cells derived from patients with PDB showed high levels of SIRPβ1 mRNA expression compared to normal subjects. Thus, MVNP regulated gene expression profiling during osteoclast differentiation provides new insights into molecular mechanisms and therapeutic targets to control elevated osteoclast activity in PDB.

Project description:Paget disease of bone (PDB) is a chronic skeletal disorder with contemporary cases characterised by one or a few affected bones in individuals over 55 years of age. PDB-like changes have been noted in archaeological remains as old as Roman although accurate diagnoses and knowledge of the natural history of ancient forms of the disease are lacking. Previous macroscopic and radiographic analyses of six skeletons from a collection of 130 excavated at Norton Priory in Cheshire, UK, and dating to late Medieval times, noted unusually extensive pathological changes resembling PDB affecting up to 75% of individual skeletons. Here we report the prevalence of the disease in the collection is also remarkably high (at least 15.8% of the adult sample) with age-at-death estimations as low as 35 years. Despite these profound phenotypic differences paleoproteomic analyses identified SQSTM1/p62 (p62), a protein central to the pathological milieu of classical PDB, as one of the few non-collagenous human sequences preserved in skeletal samples, indicating that the disorder was likely an ancient precursor of contemporary PDB. Western blotting indicated abnormal migration of ancient p62 protein, with subsequent targeted proteomic analyses detecting more than 60% of the p62 primary sequence and directing sequencing analyses of ancient DNA that excluded contemporary PDB-associated SQSTM1 mutations. Together our observations indicate the ancient p62 protein is likely modified within its C-terminal ubiquitin-associated (UBA) domain. Ancient miRNAs were also remarkably well preserved in an osteosarcoma from a skeleton with extensive disease, with miR-16 expression changes consistent with that reported in contemporary PDB-associated bone tumours. Our work demonstrates the potential of proteomics to inform diagnoses of ancient disease and supports the proposal that Medieval Norton Priory was a ‘hotspot’ for an ancient form of PDB, with unusual features presumably potentiated by as yet unidentified environmental or genetic factors.

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Microarray profile of p62P392L-regulated gene expression in RANKL and M-CSF stimulated normal human bone marrow derived non-adherent cells

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