- 作者: Masanobu Tsubaki, Makiko Komai, Tatsuki Itoh, Motohiro Imano, Kotaro Sakamoto, Hirotaka Shimaoka, Tomoya Takeda, Naoki Ogawa, Kenji Mashimo, Daiichiro Fujiwara, Junji Mukai, Katsuhiko Sakaguchi, Takao Satou, Shozo Nishida
- 作者服務機構: Division of Pharmacotherapy, Kinki University School of Pharmacy, Kowakae, Higashi-Osaka , Japan
- 中文摘要: --
- 英文摘要:
Background:
Bisphosphonates are an important class of antiresorptive drugs used in the treatment of metabolic bone diseases. Recent studies have shown that nitrogen-containing bisphosphonates induced apoptosis in rabbit osteoclasts and prevented prenylated small GTPase. However, whether bisphosphonates inhibit osteoclast formation has not been determined. In the present study, we investigated the inhibitory effect of minodronate and alendronate on the osteoclast formation and clarified the mechanism involved in a mouse macrophage-like cell lines C7 and RAW264.7.
Results:
It was found that minodronate and alendronate inhibited the osteoclast formation of C7 cells induced by receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand and macrophage colony stimulating factor, which are inhibited by the suppression of geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate (GGPP) biosynthesis. It was also found that minodronate and alendronate inhibited the osteoclast formation of RAW264.7 cells induced by receptor activator of NF-kappaB ligand. Furthermore, minodronate and alendornate decreased phosphorylated extracellular signal-regulated kinase 1/2 (ERK1/2) and Akt; similarly, U0126, a mitogen protein kinase kinase 1/2 (MEK1/2) inhibitor, and LY294002, a phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor, inhibited osteoclast formation.
Conclusions:
This indicates that minodronate and alendronate inhibit GGPP biosynthesis in the mevalonate pathway and then signal transduction in the MEK/ERK and PI3K/Akt pathways, thereby inhibiting osteoclast formation. These results suggest a novel effect of bisphosphonates that could be effective in the treatment of bone metabolic diseases, such as osteoporosis. - 中文關鍵字: --
- 英文關鍵字: Nitrogen-containing bisphosphonate, Geranylgeranyl pyrophosphate, MEK1/2, PI3K