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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR BIOCHEMISTRY
卷 355, 期 1-2, 页码 179-186出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11010-011-0852-z
关键词
Zinc; Nuclear factor kappa B; Osteoclast; Osteoblast; Bone resorption; Bone formation
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Zinc is essential for numerous biochemical pathways in the body and is known to significantly affect the skeleton. Zinc has a profound effect on bone turnover promoting bone formation and mineralization, but paradoxically inhibiting osteoclastic bone breakdown (resorption). How zinc regulates these disparate effects on bone cells, however, is poorly understood. We recently characterized several pharmacological and nutritional factors that are likewise endowed with the capacity to promote bone formation and suppress bone resorption and demonstrated that a common centralized mechanism for achieving such actions is through suppression of NF-kappa B activation. NF-kappa B is a pathway required for osteoclastogenesis, but suppresses osteoblast differentiation. In this study, we investigated the actions of zinc on NF-kappa B activation in osteoclast and osteoblast precursors in vitro. Our data show that zinc suppressed osteoclast differentiation and promoted osteoblast mineralization and did indeed act as a potent NF-kappa B activation antagonist in both osteoclast and osteoblast precursors. Importantly, zinc antagonized NF-kappa B activation driven by TNF alpha, a potent inflammatory mediator or bone resorption and suppressor of bone formation in vitro and in vivo. Zinc further alleviated the suppressive effect of TNF alpha on Smad activation induced by TGF beta and BMP2, cytokines that play critical roles in osteoblast commitment, differentiation, and recruitment to sites of bone remodeling. In conclusion, our data reveal for the first time that a major mechanism by which zinc promotes osteoblastogenesis and suppresses osteoclastogenesis may center on the antagonism of NF-kappa B activation.
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