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Peptide drugs accelerate BMP‐2‐induced calvarial bone regeneration and stimulate osteoblast differentiation through mTORC1 signaling
Author(s) -
Sugamori Yasutaka,
MiseOmata Setsuko,
Maeda Chizuko,
Aoki Shigeki,
Tabata Yasuhiko,
Murali Ramachandran,
Yasuda Hisataka,
Udagawa Nobuyuki,
Suzuki Hiroshi,
Honma Masashi,
Aoki Kazuhiro
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
bioessays
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.175
H-Index - 184
eISSN - 1521-1878
pISSN - 0265-9247
DOI - 10.1002/bies.201600104
Subject(s) - osteoblast , mtorc1 , chemistry , microbiology and biotechnology , runx2 , bone morphogenetic protein 2 , rankl , phosphorylation , serine , pi3k/akt/mtor pathway , protein kinase b , activator (genetics) , biochemistry , signal transduction , receptor , biology , in vitro
Both W9 and OP3‐4 were known to bind the receptor activator of NF‐κB ligand (RANKL), inhibiting osteoclastogenesis. Recently, both peptides were shown to stimulate osteoblast differentiation; however, the mechanism underlying the activity of these peptides remains to be clarified. A primary osteoblast culture showed that rapamycin, an mTORC1 inhibitor, which was recently demonstrated to be an important serine/threonine kinase for bone formation, inhibited the peptide‐induced alkaline phosphatase activity. Furthermore, both peptides promoted the phosphorylation of Akt and S6K1, an upstream molecule of mTORC1 and the effector molecule of mTORC1, respectively. In the in vivo calvarial defect model, W9 and OP3‐4 accelerated BMP‐2‐induced bone formation to a similar extent, which was confirmed by histomorphometric analyses using fluorescence images of undecalcified sections. Our data suggest that these RANKL‐binding peptides could stimulate the mTORC1 activity, which might play a role in the acceleration of BMP‐2‐induced bone regeneration by the RANKL‐binding peptides.