Insulin receptor substrate-1 in osteoblast is indispensable for maintaining bone turnover
Naoshi Ogata, … , Kozo Nakamura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Naoshi Ogata, … , Kozo Nakamura, Hiroshi Kawaguchi
Published April 1, 2000
Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 2000;105(7):935-943. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI9017.
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Insulin receptor substrate-1 in osteoblast is indispensable for maintaining bone turnover

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.

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

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Radiological findings of the long bones of WT and IRS-1–/– mice. (a) Pla...
Radiological findings of the long bones of WT and IRS-1–/– mice. (a) Plain x-ray images of femora (left) and tibiae (middle) and three-dimensional CT images of distal femora (right) of representative 8-week-old WT and IRS-1–/– mice that are littermates generated from the intercross between heterozygous mice. (b) BMD of the femora and tibiae of WT and IRS-1–/– littermates generated from 3 pairs of heterozygous mice. Left: BMD of the whole femora and tibiae at 4, 8, 12, and 16 weeks of age. Significantly different from WT mice, *P < 0.01. Right: BMD of each of 20 equal longitudinal divisions of the femora and tibiae of 8-week-old mice. Data are expressed as mean (symbols) ± SEM (error bars) for 8 bones/group for WT and IRS-1–/– mice.