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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF CANCER
Volume 133, Issue 5, Pages 1074-1084Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/ijc.28116
Keywords
multiple myeloma bone disease; brain-derived neurotrophic factor; osteoclastogenesis; receptor activator of nuclear factor kappa B ligand; osteoprotegerin
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- National Natural Science Funds for Distinguished Young Scholar [30825018]
- National Natural Sciences Foundation of P.R. China [30700331]
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Osteolytic bone diseases are a prominent feature of multiple myeloma (MM), resulting from aberrant osteoclastic bone resorption that is uncoupled from osteoblastic bone formation. Myeloma stimulates osteoclastogenesis, which is largely dependent on an increase in receptor activator of NF-B ligand (RANKL) and a decrease in osteoprotegerin (OPG) within the bone marrow milieu. Recently, brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) was identified as a MM-derived factor that correlates with increased RANKL levels and contributes to osteolytic bone destruction in myeloma patients. Because tyrosine receptor kinase B (TrkB), the receptor of BDNF, is abundantly expressed in osteoblasts, we sought to evaluate the role of BDNF/TrkB in myeloma-osteoblast interactions and the effect of this pathway on the RANKL/OPG ratio and osteoclastogenesis. Coculture systems constructed with noncontact transwells revealed that, in vitro, MM-derived BDNF increased RANKL and decreased OPG production in osteoblasts in a time- and dose-dependent manner. These effects were completely abolished by a specific small interfering RNA for TrkB. BDNF regulates RANKL/OPG expression in osteoblasts through the TrkB/ERK pathway. To investigate the biological effects of BDNF on myeloma in vivo, a SCID-RPMI8226 mice model was constructed using lentiviral short hairpin RNA-transfected RPMI8226 cells. In this system, stable knockdown of BDNF in MM cells significantly restored the RANKL/OPG homostasis, inhibited osteolytic bone destruction and reduced angiogenesis and tumor burden. Our studies provide further support for the potential osteoclastogenic effects of BDNF, which mediates stroma-myeloma interactions to disrupt the balance of RANKL/OPG expression, ultimately increasing osteoclastogenesis in MM.
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