Insulin receptor substrate-1 in osteoblast is indispensable for maintaining bone turnover

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Abstract

Insulin receptor substrates (IRS-1 and -2) are essential for intracellular signaling by insulin and IGF-I, anabolic regulators of bone metabolism. Mice lacking the IRS-1 gene IRS-1–/– showed severe osteopenia with low bone turnover. IRS-1 was expressed in osteoblasts, but not in osteoclasts, of wild-type (WT) mice. IRS-1–/– osteoblasts treated with insulin or IGF-I failed to induce tyrosine phosphorylation of cellular proteins, and they showed reduced proliferation and differentiation. Osteoclastogenesis in the coculture of hemopoietic cells and osteoblasts depended on IRS-1 expression in osteoblasts and could not be rescued by IRS-1 expression in hemopoietic cells in the presence of not only IGF-I but also 1,25(OH)2D3. In addition, osteoclast differentiation factor (RANKL/ODF) was not induced by these factors in IRS-1–/– osteoblasts. We conclude that IRS-1 deficiency in osteoblasts impairs osteoblast proliferation, differentiation, and support of osteoclastogenesis, resulting in low-turnover osteopenia. Osteoblastic IRS-1 is essential for maintaining bone turnover, because it mediates signaling by IGF-I and insulin and, we propose, also by other factors, such as 1,25(OH)2D3.

Authors

Naoshi Ogata, Daichi Chikazu, Naoto Kubota, Yasuo Terauchi, Kazuyuki Tobe, Yoshiaki Azuma, Tomohiro Ohta, Takashi Kadowaki, Kozo Nakamura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi