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FASEB JOURNAL
Volume 24, Issue 8, Pages 2859-2868Publisher
FEDERATION AMER SOC EXP BIOL
DOI: 10.1096/fj.09-148007
Keywords
mechanotransduction; fluid flow; osteocyte; osteoporosis
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- Department of Veterans Affairs, the National Institutes of Health [AR045989, AR054156]
- National Science Foundation
- Department of Veterans Affairs
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Primary cilia are chemosensing and mechanosensing organelles that regulate remarkably diverse processes in a variety of cells. We previously showed that primary cilia play a role in mediating mechanosensing in bone cells through an unknown mechanism that does not involve extracellular Ca2+-dependent intracellular Ca2+ release, which has been implicated in all other cells that transduce mechanical signals via the cilium. Here, we identify a molecular mechanism linking primary cilia and bone cell mechanotransduction that involves adenylyl cyclase 6 (AC6) and cAMP. Intracellular cAMP was quantified in MLO-Y4 cells exposed to dynamic flow, and AC6 and primary cilia were inhibited using RNA interference. When exposed to flow, cells rapidly (<2 min) and transiently decreased cAMP production in a primary cilium-dependent manner. RT-PCR revealed differential expression of the membrane-bound isoforms of adenylyl cyclase, while immunostaining revealed one, AC6, preferentially localized to the cilium. Further studies showed that decreases in cAMP in response to flow were dependent on AC6 and Gd3+-sensitive channels but not intracellular Ca2+ release and that this response mediated flow-induced COX-2 gene expression. The signaling events identified provide important details of a novel early mechanosensing mechanism in bone and advances our understanding of how signal transduction occurs at the primary cilium.-Kwon, R. Y., Temiyasathit, S., Tummala, P., Quah, C. C., Jacobs, C. R. Primary cilium-dependent mechanosensing is mediated by adenylyl cyclase 6 and cyclic AMP in bone cells. FASEB J. 24, 2859-2868 (2010). www.fasebj.org
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