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ArticleScientific reports2017

SERPINB2 is a novel TGFβ-responsive lineage fate determinant of human bone marrow stromal cells.

Mona Elsafadi, Muthurangan Manikandan, Muhammad Atteya, Raed Abu Dawud, Sami Almalki, Zahid Ali Kaimkhani, Abdullah Aldahmash, Nehad M Alajez, Musaad Alfayez, Moustapha Kassem and 1 more

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Article in Scientific reports, 2017. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 18 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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18citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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18 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 26 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

11 authors at 4 institutions in 4 countries.

Mona ElsafadiStem Cell Unit, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. monasafadi@gmail.com.
Muthurangan ManikandanStem Cell Unit, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Muhammad AtteyaStem Cell Unit, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Raed Abu DawudBerlin-Brandenburg Center for Regenerative Therapies (BCRT), Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.
Sami AlmalkiCollege of Agriculture, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Zahid Ali KaimkhaniStem Cell Unit, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Abdullah AldahmashStem Cell Unit, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Nehad M AlajezStem Cell Unit, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Musaad AlfayezStem Cell Unit, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Moustapha KassemStem Cell Unit, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
Amer MahmoodStem Cell Unit, Department of Anatomy, College of Medicine, King Saud University, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. ammahmood@ksu.edu.sa.
King Saud University · SACairo University · EGKing Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre · SAUniversity of Southern Denmark · DK

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

TGF-β1, a multifunctional regulator of cell growth and differentiation, is the most abundant bone matrix growth factor. During differentiation of human bone stromal cells (hBMSCs), which constitute bone marrow osteoblast (OS) and adipocyte (AD) progenitor cells, continuous TGF-β1 (10 ng/ml) treatment enhanced OS differentiation as evidenced by increased mineralised matrix production. Conversely, pulsed TGF-β1 administration during the commitment phase increased mature lipid-filled adipocyte numbers. Global gene expression analysis using DNA microarrays in hBMSCs treated with TGF-β1 identified 1587 up- and 1716 down-regulated genes in OS-induced, TGF-β1-treated compared to OS-induced hBMSCs (2.0 fold change (FC), p < 0.05). Gene ontology (GO) analysis revealed enrichment in 'osteoblast differentiation' and 'skeletal system development-associated' genes and up-regulation of several genes involved in 'osteoblastic-differentiation related signalling pathways'. In AD-induced, TGF-β1-treated compared to AD-induced hBMSCs, we identified 323 up- and 369 down-regulated genes (2.0 FC, p < 0.05) associated with 'fat cell differentiation', 'fatty acid derivative biosynthesis process', 'fatty acid derivative metabolic process', and 'inositol lipid-mediated'. Serpin peptidase inhibitor, clade B (ovalbumin), member 2 (SERPINB2) was down-regulated 3-fold in TGF-β1-treated hBMSCs. siRNA-mediated SERPINB2 inhibition enhanced OS and AD differentiation. Thus, TGF-β signalling is important for hBMSC OS and AD differentiation and SERPINB2 is a TGF-β-responsive gene that plays a negative regulatory role in hBMSC differentiation.

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AdipocytesCell DifferentiationCell LineageCell Line, TumorComputational BiologyGene Expression ProfilingGene Expression Regulation, DevelopmentalGene OntologyHumansMesenchymal Stem CellsOsteoblastsPhenotypeRNA, Small InterferingSerpinsTransforming Growth Factor betaTransforming Growth Factor beta1RNA, Small InterferingSerpinsTransforming Growth Factor betaTransforming Growth Factor beta1

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PMID28883483
PMCPMC5589808
OpenAlexW2753831098

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