Insulin receptor substrate-1 in osteoblast is indispensable for maintaining bone turnover

Naoshi Ogata, Daichi Chikazu, Naoto Kubota, Yasuo Terauchi, Kazuyuki Tobe, Yoshiaki Azuma, Tomohiro Ohta, Takashi Kadowaki, Kozo Nakamura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi*

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Abstract

Insulin receptor substrates (IRS-1 and -2) are essential for intracellular signaling by insulin and IGF-I, anabolic regulators of bone metabolism. Mice lacking the IRS-1 gene IRS-1(-/-) showed severe osteopenia with low bone turnover. IRS-1 was expressed in osteoblasts, but not in osteoclasts, of wild-type (WT) mice. IRS-1(-/-) osteoblasts treated with insulin or IGF-I failed to induce tyrosine phosphorylation of cellular proteins, and they showed reduced proliferation and differentiation. Osteoclastogenesis in the coculture of hemopoietic cells and osteoblasts depended on IRS-1 expression in osteoblasts and could not be rescued by IRS-1 expression in hemopoietic cells in the presence of not only IGF-I but also 1,25(OH)2D3. In addition, osteoclast differentiation factor (RANKL/ODF) was not induced by these factors in IRS-1(-/-) osteoblasts. We conclude that IRS- 1 deficiency in osteoblasts impairs osteoblast proliferation, differentiation, and support of osteoclastogenesis, resulting in low-turnover osteopenia. Osteoblastic IRS-1 is essential for maintaining bone turnover, because it mediates signaling by IGF-I and insulin and, we propose, also by other factors, such as 1,25(OH)2D3.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)935-943
Number of pages9
JournalJournal of Clinical Investigation
Volume105
Issue number7
DOIs
StatePublished - 2000/04

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • General Medicine

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