Notch Signaling Controls Chondrocyte Hypertrophy Via Indirect Regulation of Sox9

Overview

Journal Bone Res

Specialties Endocrinology
Orthopedics

Date 2015 Nov 12

PMID 26558140

Citations 25

Authors

Anat Kohn

Timothy P Rutkowski

Zhaoyang Liu

Anthony J Mirando

Michael J Zuscik

Regis J OKeefe

Matthew J Hilton

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Abstract

RBPjk-dependent Notch signaling regulates both the onset of chondrocyte hypertrophy and the progression to terminal chondrocyte maturation during endochondral ossification. It has been suggested that Notch signaling can regulate Sox9 transcription, although how this occurs at the molecular level in chondrocytes and whether this transcriptional regulation mediates Notch control of chondrocyte hypertrophy and cartilage development is unknown or controversial. Here we have provided conclusive genetic evidence linking RBPjk-dependent Notch signaling to the regulation of Sox9 expression and chondrocyte hypertrophy by examining tissue-specific Rbpjk mutant (Prx1Cre;Rbpjk(f/f) ), Rbpjk mutant/Sox9 haploinsufficient (Prx1Cre;Rbpjk(f/f);Sox9(f/+) ), and control embryos for alterations in SOX9 expression and chondrocyte hypertrophy during cartilage development. These studies demonstrate that Notch signaling regulates the onset of chondrocyte maturation in a SOX9-dependent manner, while Notch-mediated regulation of terminal chondrocyte maturation likely functions independently of SOX9. Furthermore, our in vitro molecular analyses of the Sox9 promoter and Notch-mediated regulation of Sox9 gene expression in chondrogenic cells identified the ability of Notch to induce Sox9 expression directly in the acute setting, but suppresses Sox9 transcription with prolonged Notch signaling that requires protein synthesis of secondary effectors.

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