Fibroblast-secreted trophic factors contribute with ECM remodeling stimulus and upmodulate osteocyte gene markers in osteoblasts

Autor(es)

Fernandes, Celio Jr da Costa ; Zambuzzi, Willian Fernando ^[1]

Afiliação do(s) autor(es)

^[1] Fernandes, Jr., Celio Jr da Costa, Univ Estadual Paulista, UNESP, Dept Chem & Biochem, Lab Bioassays & Cell Dynam, Inst Biosci, BR-18618970 Botucatu, SP - Brazil

• Tipo de documento: Artigo Científico
• Fonte: Biochimie; v. 168, p. 92-99, JAN 2020.
• Citações Web of Science: 0

Resumo

As osteogenesis is a multifactorial mechanism, we wonder whether osteoblast-induced extracellular matrix (ECM) remodeling might be modulated by trophic factors released by fibroblasts in a paracrine signaling manner. To address this issue, fibroblasts were cultured for 72 h under conventional conditions when their conditioned medium was harvested and used to challenge pre-osteoblasts (MC3T3-E1 cells) for 14 days. Preliminarily, we validated the potential effect of fibroblasts in contributing to osteocyte phenotype, which specifically requires significant expression of Dentin Matrix Protein 1 (DMP1; about 10-fold changes) and Sclerostin (SOST; about 7-fold changes), both biomarkers of osteocyte. Fibroblasts also seem contributing to ECM remodeling in osteoblasts, because we detected a high level of both mRNA and enzyme activities of matrix metalloproteinase -9 (MMP-9) as well as a high level of reversion inducing cysteine rich protein with kazal motifs (RECK) transcripts (about 13-fold changes), a membrane-anchored MMP inhibitor, which seems to be a constitutive pathway in osteoblasts. Considering inflammatory panorama and using RTqPCR technology, both IL-13 (about 13-fold changes) and IL-33 (about 5-fold changes) genes were up-expressed in response to the fibroblast-secreted trophic factors, as were the receptor activator of NF-kappa B ligand (RANKL; about 8-fold changes) and osteoprotegerin (OPG; about 3-fold changes). Although preliminary, these data suggest a stimulus to finely control osteoclastogenesis, and this mechanism reinforces the role of fibroblasts in bone remodeling and homeostasis. Moreover, these results suggest an important crosstalk between fibroblast and osteoblast, when fibroblast-secreted trophic factors upmodulate osteocyte gene markers and contribute to ECM remodeling stimulus in osteoblast. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. and Societe Francaise de Biochimie et Biologie Moleculaire (SFBBM). All rights reserved. (AU)

• Processo FAPESP: 18/10856-3 - Caracterização completa de exossomos de células endoteliais sob estresse de cisalhamento: uma atenção especial às kinases e mRNA
• Beneficiário: Célio Junior da Costa Fernandes
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Exterior - Estágio de Pesquisa - Doutorado Direto
• Processo FAPESP: 16/08888-9 - Sinalização parácrina mediada por microvesículas e proteínas entre células ósseas e endoteliais durante o desenvolvimento e regeneração do tecido ósseo
• Beneficiário: Célio Junior da Costa Fernandes
• Modalidade de apoio: Bolsas no Brasil - Doutorado Direto
• Processo FAPESP: 14/22689-3 - Sinalização parácrina mediada por microvesículas e proteínas entre células ósseas e endoteliais durante o desenvolvimento e regeneração do tecido ósseo
• Beneficiário: Willian Fernando Zambuzzi
• Modalidade de apoio: Auxílio à Pesquisa - Jovens Pesquisadores