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MOLECULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY
Volume 27, Issue 2, Pages 296-314Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1210/me.2012-1091
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- National Institutes of Health [DK64353, DK55524, HD043446]
- Arthritis Foundation
- Research Services of the Charleston, South Carolina
- Research Services of the Charleston, Durham
- North Carolina Veterans Affairs Medical Centers
- Neph-cure Young Investigator
- Department of Veterans Affairs Career Development Awards
- National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program of the NIH
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Biased G protein-coupled receptor agonists are orthosteric ligands that possess pathway-selective efficacy, activating or inhibiting only a subset of the signaling repertoire of their cognate receptors. In vitro, D-Trp(12), Tyr(34)-bPTH(7-34) [bPTH(7-34)], a biased agonist for the type 1 PTH receptor, antagonizes receptor-G protein coupling but activates arrestin-dependent signaling. In vivo, both bPTH(7-34) and the conventional agonist hPTH(1-34) stimulate anabolic bone formation. To understand how two PTH receptor ligands with markedly different in vitro efficacy could elicit similar in vivo responses, we analyzed transcriptional profiles from calvarial bone of mice treated for 8 wk with vehicle, bPTH(7-34) or hPTH(1-34). Treatment of wild-type mice with bPTH(7-34) primarily affected pathways that promote expansion of the osteoblast pool, notably cell cycle regulation, cell survival, and migration. These responses were absent in beta-arrestin2-null mice, identifying them as downstream targets of beta-arrestin2-mediated signaling. In contrast, hPTH(1-34) primarily affected pathways classically associated with enhanced bone formation, including collagen synthesis and matrix mineralization. hPTH(1-34) actions were less dependent on beta-arrestin2, as might be expected of a ligand capable of G protein activation. In vitro, bPTH(7-34) slowed the rate of preosteoblast proliferation, enhanced osteoblast survival when exposed to an apoptotic stimulus, and stimulated cell migration in wild-type, but not beta-arrestin2-null, calvarial osteoblasts. These results suggest that bPTH(7-34) and hPTH(1-34) affect bone mass in vivo through predominantly separate genomic mechanisms created by largely distinct receptor-signaling networks and demonstrate that functional selectivity can be exploited to change the quality of G protein-coupled receptor efficacy. (Molecular Endocrinology 27: 296-314, 2013)
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