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ArticleScientific reports2018

Overactive autophagy is a pathological mechanism underlying premature suture ossification in nonsyndromic craniosynostosis.

Shanshan Qiu, Jing Wang, Siqi Huang, Shouqing Sun, Zhen Zhang, Nan Bao

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Article in Scientific reports, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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6 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Shanshan QiuDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Jing WangDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Siqi HuangDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Shouqing SunDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China.
Zhen ZhangPediatric Translational Medicine Institute, Shanghai Pediatric Congenital Heart Disease Institute, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. zhenzhang@sjtu.edu.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-9898-054X
Nan BaoDepartment of Pediatric Surgery, Shanghai Children's Medical Center, Shanghai Jiaotong University, School of Medicine, Shanghai, China. bnscmc@shsmu.edu.cn.
Shanghai Children's Medical Center · CN

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Nonsyndromic craniosynostosis (NSC) is the most common craniosynostosis with the primary defect being one or more fused sutures. In contrast to syndromic craniosynostosis, the etiopathogenesis of NSC is largely unknown. Here we show that autophagy, a major catabolic process required for the maintenance of bone homeostasis and bone growth, is a pathological change associated with NSC. Using calvarial suture mesenchymal cells (SMCs) isolated from the fused and unfused sutures of NSC patients, we demonstrate that during SMC differentiation, the level of the autophagosomal marker LC3-II increases as osteogenic differentiation progresses, particularly at differentiation day 7, a stage concurrent with mineralization. In fused SMCs, autophagic induction was more robust than that in unfused SMCs, which consequently led to enhanced mineralized nodule formation. Perturbation of autophagy with rapamycin or wortmannin promoted or inhibited the ossification of SMCs, respectively. Our findings suggest that autophagy is essential for the osteogenic differentiation of SMCs and that overactive autophagy is a molecular abnormality underlying premature calvarial ossification in NSC.

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AdolescentAutophagyBone DevelopmentCell DifferentiationChildCraniosynostosesFemaleHumansMaleMesenchymal Stem CellsMorphogenesisOsteogenesisPhenotypeSignal TransductionSkullSutures

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PMCPMC5916928
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