Journal
JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
Volume 31, Issue 8, Pages 1608-1616Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.2824
Keywords
OSTEOGENESIS IMPERFECTA; PROCOLLAGEN; OSTEOBLAST; AUTOPHAGY; CELL STRESS
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- NICHD
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Glycine (Gly) substitutions in collagen Gly-X-Y repeats disrupt folding of type I procollagen triple helix and cause severe bone fragility and malformations (osteogenesis imperfecta [OI]). However, these mutations do not elicit the expected endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response, in contrast to other protein-folding diseases. Thus, it has remained unclear whether cell stress and osteoblast malfunction contribute to the bone pathology caused by Gly substitutions. Here we used a mouse with a Gly610 to cysteine (Cys) substitution in the procollagen alpha 2(I) chain to show that misfolded procollagen accumulation in the ER leads to an unusual form of cell stress, which is neither a conventional unfolded protein response (UPR) nor ER overload. Despite pronounced ER dilation, there is no upregulation of binding immunoglobulin protein (BIP) expected in the UPR and no activation of NF-kappa B signaling expected in the ER overload. Altered expression of ER chaperones alpha B crystalline and HSP47, phosphorylation of EIF2 alpha, activation of autophagy, upregulation of general stress response protein CHOP, and osteoblast malfunction reveal some other adaptive response to the ER disruption. We show how this response alters differentiation and function of osteoblasts in culture and in vivo. We demonstrate that bone matrix deposition by cultured osteoblasts is rescued by activation of misfolded procollagen autophagy, suggesting a new therapeutic strategy for OI. (C) 2016 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
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