title: Promotion of osteogenesis through beta-catenin signaling by desferrioxamine.
abstract: Desferrioxamine, an iron chelator with "hypoxia-mimetic" activity, promotes bone mineralization when used in aluminum-overloaded dialysis patients. However, the effect of desferrioxamine on osteoblastic differentiation from pluripotent mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) has not been reported. In this study, pluripotent human MSCs and murine mesenchymal C3H10T1/2 cells were simultaneously treated with desferrioxamine and bone morphogenetic protein-2 (BMP2). In BMP2-treated MSCs, desferrioxamine levels of 15 microMu were found to increase alkaline phosphatase (ALP) activity and calcium deposition, which were the markers of osteoblastic differentiation. These effects of desferrioxamine were accompanied by promoted phosphorylation of glycogen synthase kinase 3beta (GSK-3beta) and increased beta-catenin protein content, a direct GSK-3beta substrate. Knockdown of beta-catenin by RNA interference eliminates this positive effect of desferrioxamine on ALP activity. Taken together, these data demonstrate that desferrioxamine plays a direct role in the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells by activating beta-catenin signaling cascades.
authors: Orthopaedic Cellular and Molecular Biology Laboratory, Institute of Health Sciences, Shanghai Institutes for Biological Sciences, Chinese Academy of Sciences and Shanghai JiaoTong University School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
authors: Zhi-Hu
authors: ZH
authors: Qu
authors: Xiao-Ling
authors: XL
authors: Zhang
authors: Ting-Ting
authors: TT
authors: Tang
authors: Ke-Rong
authors: KR
authors: Dai
mesh_terms: D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase / Q000378:metabolism; D000818:Animals; D055396:Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2; D019485:Bone Morphogenetic Proteins / Q000494:pharmacology; D002118:Calcium / Q000032:analysis / Q000378:metabolism; D002454:Cell Differentiation / Q000187:drug effects / Q000235:genetics; D002478:Cells, Cultured; D003676:Deferoxamine / Q000494:pharmacology*; D006801:Humans; D059630:Mesenchymal Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D051379:Mice; D010006:Osteoblasts / Q000166:cytology* / Q000378:metabolism; D010012:Osteogenesis / Q000187:drug effects* / Q000235:genetics; D039904:Pluripotent Stem Cells / Q000187:drug effects / Q000378:metabolism; D034622:RNA Interference; D017262:Siderophores / Q000494:pharmacology*; D015398:Signal Transduction; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta / Q000494:pharmacology; D051176:beta Catenin / Q000037:antagonists & inhibitors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*
chemical_list: C525718:BMP2 protein, human; C525719:Bmp2 protein, mouse; D055396:Bone Morphogenetic Protein 2; D019485:Bone Morphogenetic Proteins; D017262:Siderophores; D016212:Transforming Growth Factor beta; D051176:beta Catenin; D000469:Alkaline Phosphatase; D003676:Deferoxamine; D002118:Calcium