Journal
JOURNAL OF BONE AND MINERAL RESEARCH
Volume 31, Issue 12, Pages 2227-2238Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/jbmr.2908
Keywords
OSTEOBLASTS; OSTEOPROGENITOR; FAK; WNT; -CATENIN; BONE MARROW; ADIPOCYTE
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Funding
- NIH [R01AR062030, R01CA163493, DE016530]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [31201039]
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Decreased bone formation is often associated with increased bone marrow adiposity. The molecular mechanisms that are accountable for the negative correlation between bone mass and bone marrow adiposity are incompletely understood. Focal adhesion kinase (FAK) has critical functions in proliferation and differentiation of many cell types; however, its roles in osteoblast lineage cells are largely unknown. We show herein that mice lacking FAK in Osterix-expressing cells exhibited decreased osteoblast number and low bone mass as well as increased bone marrow adiposity. The decreased bone mass in FAK-deficient mice was accounted for by decreased proliferation, compromised osteogenic differentiation, and increased adipogenic differentiation of bone marrow Osterix-expressing cells resulting from downregulation of Wnt/-catenin signaling due to the reduced expression of canonical Wnt ligands. In contrast, FAK loss in calvarial preosteoblasts had no adverse effect on their proliferation and osteogenic differentiation and these cells had intact Wnt/-catenin signaling. (c) 2016 American Society for Bone and Mineral Research.
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