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ArticleCalcified tissue international2021

Proton Pump Inhibitors Inhibit PHOSPHO1 Activity and Matrix Mineralisation In Vitro.

Katherine A Staines, Katherine Myers, Kirsty Little, Stuart H Ralston, Colin Farquharson

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Article in Calcified tissue international, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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13citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
1.0field-weighted citation impact, top 25% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

13 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 12 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. The Effect of Proton Pump Inhibitors on Bone MineralisationSultan Qaboos University medical journal · 2025
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  13. Proton Pump Inhibitors and Bone Health: An Update Narrative Review.International journal of molecular sciences · 2022
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Katherine A StainesSchool of Pharmacy and Biomolecular Sciences, University of Brighton, Lewes Road, Brighton, BN2 4GJ, UK. k.staines@brighton.ac.uk.ORCID 0000-0002-8492-9778
Katherine MyersThe Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Kirsty LittleThe Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Stuart H RalstonCentre for Genomic and Experimental Medicine, Institute of Genetics and Cancer, University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Colin FarquharsonThe Roslin Institute, The University of Edinburgh, Edinburgh, UK.
Roslin Institute · GBEdinburgh Cancer Research · GBUniversity of Brighton · GB

Funding

Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BB/J004316/1Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council BBS/E/R/00003741
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Proton pump inhibitors (PPIs) have been associated with an increased risk of fragility fractures in pharmaco-epidemiological studies. The mechanism is unclear, but it has been speculated that by neutralising gastric acid, they may reduce intestinal calcium absorption, causing secondary hyperparathyroidism and bone loss. Here we investigated that hypothesis that the skeletal effects of PPI might be mediated by inhibitory effects on the bone-specific phosphatase PHOSPHO1. We found that the all PPIs tested inhibited the activity of PHOSPHO1 with IC50 ranging between 0.73 µM for esomeprazole to 19.27 µM for pantoprazole. In contrast, these PPIs did not inhibit TNAP activity. We also found that mineralisation of bone matrix in primary osteoblast cultures was inhibited by several PPIs in a concentration dependent manner. In contrast, the histamine-2 receptor antagonists (H2RA) nizatidine, famotidine, cimetidine and ranitidine had no inhibitory effects on PHOSPHO1 activity. Our experiments show for the first time that PPIs inhibit PHOSPHO1 activity and matrix mineralisation in vitro revealing a potential mechanism by which these widely used drugs are associated with the risk of fractures.

Indexed as

Histamine H2 AntagonistsProton Pump InhibitorsCalcification, PhysiologicPantoprazolePhosphoric Monoester HydrolasesHistamine H2 AntagonistsPantoprazolePhosphoric Monoester HydrolasesProton Pump InhibitorsHistamine-2 receptor antagonistsMineralisationPHOSPHO1Proton pump inhibitorsTNAP

Identifiers

PMID34213594
PMCPMC8531085
OpenAlexW3174699165

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