Journal
BONE
Volume 44, Issue 5, Pages 830-839Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.bone.2008.12.021
Keywords
Oncostatin M; Lentivirus; Osteosarcoma; Osteoblast; Osteocyte
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- Ministere de la Recherche
- La Ligue Contre le Cancer
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Previous in vitro studies on primary osteoblastic and osteosarcoma cells (normal and transformed osteoblasts) have shown that oncostatin M (OSM), a member of the interleukin-6 family, possesses cytostatic and pro-apoptotic effects in association with complex and poorly understood activities on osteoblast differentiation. In this study, we use rat osteosarcoma cells transduced with lentiviral particles encoding OSM (IvOSM) to stably produce this cytokine. We show that after several weeks Of Culture, transduced OSRGA and ROS 17/2.8 cells are growth inhibited and sensitized to apoptosis induced by the kinase inhibitor Staurosporine (Sts). Moreover, this long term OSM treatment induces (i) a decrease in osteoblastic markets, (ii) morphological changes leading to an elongated and/or stellate shape and (iii) an increase in osteocytic markets (sclerostin and/or Ell), suggesting an osteocyte-like differentiation. We also show that non transformed rat calvaria cells transduced with IvOSM differentiate into stellate shaped cells expressing sclerostin, Ell, Phex and functional hemichannels. Together, these results indicate that osteosarcoma cells stably producing OSM do not develop resistance to this cytokine and thus could be a valuable new tool to Study the anti-cancer effect of OSM in vivo. Moreover, OSM-over-expressing osteoblastic cells differentiate into osteocyte-like cells, the major cellular contingent in bone, providing new culture conditions for this cell type which is difficult to obtain in vitro. (C) 2009 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
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