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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2020

FoxO1 is a crucial mediator of TGF-β/TAK1 signaling and protects against osteoarthritis by maintaining articular cartilage homeostasis.

Cuicui Wang, Jie Shen, Jun Ying, Ding Xiao, Regis J O'Keefe

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 62 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

62 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 102 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.

Cuicui WangDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Jie ShenDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110; okeefer@wustl.edu shen.j@wustl.edu.
Jun YingDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Ding XiaoDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110.
Regis J O'KeefeDepartment of Orthopaedic Surgery, School of Medicine, Washington University in St. Louis, St. Louis, MO 63110; okeefer@wustl.edu shen.j@wustl.edu.ORCID 0000-0003-4055-0368
Washington University in St. Louis · USZhejiang Chinese Medical University · CN

Funding

Resource Based Center for Musculoskeletal Biology and Medicine (Overall Application)P30AR074992 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI MATTHEW J SILVA · 2019 to 2026
$6.8M
The Role of the Osteoblast Secretome in Bone FormationP30AR057235 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI SILVA, MATTHEW J · 2009 to 2018
$5.7M
Skeletal Disorders Training ProgramT32AR060719 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Roberto Civitelli · 2011 to 2026
$4.6M
Epigenetic Regulation in Cartilage TissueR01AR069605 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI Regis J O'Keefe · 2016 to 2026
$3.5M
Targeting angiogenesis for fracture nonunion treatment under inflammatory diseasesR01AR077616 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GUAN, JIANJUN, SHEN, JIE · 2020 to 2025
$2.7M
Epigenetic Regulation of Bone Regeneration in Inflammatory DiseaseR01AR075860 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI SHEN, JIE · 2019 to 2024
$2.6M
Stem cell therapy for fracture nonunion under inflammatory diseasesR21AR077226 · NIAMS · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI GUILAK, FARSHID, SHEN, JIE · 2020 to 2021
$376k
NIAMS NIH HHS P30 AR057235NIAMS NIH HHS P30 AR074992NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR069605NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR075860NIAMS NIH HHS R01 AR077616NIAMS NIH HHS R21 AR077226NIAMS NIH HHS T32 AR060719
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) signaling is a critical regulator for articular cartilage tissue maintenance and chondrocyte homeostasis. Nonetheless, the regulatory networks and downstream signaling pathways that govern the chondroprotective function of TGF-β in the context of osteoarthritis (OA) are not fully defined. Recent studies reveal that mice with postnatal deletion of triple forkhead box class Os (FoxOs) (1, 3, and 4) spontaneously develop OA-like pathologies. The OA phenotype largely recapitulates that observed in mice with loss of TGF-βR2. In the present study, we investigated the role of FoxOs as downstream mediators of TGF-β signaling and define their role in articular cartilage homeostasis. Among the three FoxOs (1, 3, and 4), TGF-β signaling exclusively regulates FoxO1 in a TGF-β activated kinase 1 (TAK1)-dependent manner. Furthermore, FoxO1 was genetically ablated in mice in a tissue-specific manner in articular cartilage or overexpressed in adult cartilage immediately followed by meniscal/ligament injury (MLI). Histological and microcomputed tomography (micro-CT) analyses demonstrated that loss of FoxO1 postnatally in articular cartilage leads to OA-like pathologies, and gain of FoxO1 in adult cartilage has both preventative and therapeutic effects on surgically induced OA. Mechanistically, FoxO1 was found to maintain articular chondrocyte homeostasis through induction of anabolic and autophagy-related gene expressions. Importantly, overexpression of FoxO1 markedly rescued the OA phenotypes caused by deficiency in TGF-β signaling in chondrocytes. Our study identifies that TGF-β/TAK1-FoxO1 is a key signaling cascade in regulation of articular cartilage autophagy and homeostasis and is a potentially important therapeutic target for OA-like joint diseases.

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Signal TransductionAnimalsAutophagyBiomarkersCartilage, ArticularChondrocytesDisease Models, AnimalDisease SusceptibilityForkhead Box Protein O1Forkhead Transcription FactorsHomeostasisMAP Kinase Kinase Kinase 7MAP Kinase Kinase KinasesMiceMice, KnockoutModels, BiologicalBiomarkersForkhead Box Protein O1Forkhead Transcription FactorsFoxo1 protein, mouseMAP Kinase Kinase Kinase 7MAP Kinase Kinase KinasesReactive Oxygen SpeciesTransforming Growth Factor betaarticular chondrocyteautophagyFoxO1osteoarthritisTGFb

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PMID33199631
PMCPMC7720227
OpenAlexW3100923976

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