[HTML][HTML] MyD88 is not required for muscle injury-induced endochondral heterotopic ossification in a mouse model of fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva

H Lyu, CM Elkins, JL Pierce, CH Serezani, DS Perrien - Biomedicines, 2021 - mdpi.com
H Lyu, CM Elkins, JL Pierce, CH Serezani, DS Perrien
Biomedicines, 2021mdpi.com
Excess inflammation and canonical BMP receptor (BMPR) signaling are coinciding
hallmarks of the early stages of injury-induced endochondral heterotopic ossification (EHO),
especially in the rare genetic disease fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). Multiple
inflammatory signaling pathways can synergistically enhance BMP-induced Smad1/5/8
activity in multiple cell types, suggesting the importance of pathway crosstalk in EHO and
FOP. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and IL-1 receptors mediate many of the earliest injury …
Excess inflammation and canonical BMP receptor (BMPR) signaling are coinciding hallmarks of the early stages of injury-induced endochondral heterotopic ossification (EHO), especially in the rare genetic disease fibrodysplasia ossificans progressiva (FOP). Multiple inflammatory signaling pathways can synergistically enhance BMP-induced Smad1/5/8 activity in multiple cell types, suggesting the importance of pathway crosstalk in EHO and FOP. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) and IL-1 receptors mediate many of the earliest injury-induced inflammatory signals largely via MyD88-dependent pathways. Thus, the hypothesis that MyD88-dependent signaling is required for EHO was tested in vitro and in vivo using global or Pdgfrα-conditional deletion of MyD88 in FOP mice. As expected, IL-1β or LPS synergistically increased Activin A (ActA)-induced phosphorylation of Smad 1/5 in fibroadipoprogenitors (FAPs) expressing Alk2R206H. However, conditional deletion of MyD88 in Pdgfrα-positive cells of FOP mice did not significantly alter the amount of muscle injury-induced EHO. Even more surprisingly, injury-induced EHO was not significantly affected by global deletion of MyD88. These studies demonstrate that MyD88-dependent signaling is dispensable for injury-induced EHO in FOP mice.
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