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Abstract
Parathyroid hormone (PTH) regulates serum calcium and phosphate through its actions in bone and kidney and is used to increase bone in osteoporosis treatment. In bone, PTH targets osteoblasts and osteocytes to regulate bone remodeling but also bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs), regulating their differentiation in the osteoblast or the adipocyte lineage. PTH exerts its action through the PTH/PTH-related peptide (PTHrP) receptor, a G protein–coupled receptor (GPCR), activating adenylyl cyclase and phospholipase C (PLC). Although the effects of cAMP and PKA are well characterized, little is known about the effects of PLC activation or on the crosstalk between PTH signaling and other pathways. Here, bulk RNA-Seq of PTH-treated murine BMSC line (W-20) revealed significant changes in the Hippo pathway. In addition to increasing its transcription, PTH stabilized YAP protein, a key target of Hippo, by decreasing YAP/LArge Tumor Suppressor kinase 1 (LATS1) interaction, YAPS127 phosphorylation, and YAP ubiquitination, leading to YAP nuclear translocation and expression of YAP target genes. Similar events occurred in osteocyte cell lines. This occurred via an increase in Src kinase activity: We identified YAPY428 as a key tyrosine residue phosphorylated by Src in response to PTH. Preventing YAPY428 phosphorylation led to YAP instability, blocking both osteogenic and adipogenic differentiation of W-20 cells. These results demonstrate active crosstalk between the PTH/PTHrP and the Hippo signaling pathways and reveal that PTH signaling utilizes the PLC/Ca2+/Src tyrosine kinase signaling cascade to influence YAP stability, antagonizing Hippo signaling and favoring stromal cell differentiation. Thus, PTH signaling counteracts the effects of Hippo signaling in BMSCs to favor their differentiation.
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Sara Monaci, Mengrui Wu, Hiroyuki Okada, Kedkanya Mesil, Byeong-Rak Keum, Maisa Monseff Rodrigues da Silva, Clifford J. Rosen, Francesca Gori, Roland Baron
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