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Akt Enhances Runx2 Protein Stability by Regulating Smurf2 Function During Osteoblast Differentiation

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Journal FEBS J
Specialty Biochemistry
Date 2014 Jun 26
PMID 24961731
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Runx2 plays essential roles in bone formation and chondrocyte maturation. Akt promotes osteoblast differentiation induced by the bone morphogenetic proteins BMP2 and enhances the function and transcriptional activity of Runx2. However, the precise molecular mechanism underlying the relationship between Runx2 and Akt is not well understood. In this study, we examined the role of Akt in regulating Runx2 function. We found that Akt increases the stability of Runx2 protein. However, the level of Runx2 mRNA was not affected by Akt, and we did not find any evidence for direct modification of Runx2 by Akt. Instead, we found evidence that Akt induces the phosphorylation of the Smad ubiquitination regulatory factor Smurf2 and decreases the level of Smurf2 protein through ubiquitin/proteasome-mediated degradation of Smurf2. Akt also alleviates Smurf2-mediated suppression of Runx2 transcriptional activity. Taken together, our results suggest that Akt regulates osteoblast differentiation, at least in part, by enhancing the protein stability and transcriptional activity of Runx2 through regulation of ubiquitin/proteasome-mediated degradation of Smurf2.

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