Post-weaning epiphysiolysis causes distal femur dysplasia and foreshortened hindlimbs in fetuin-A-deficient mice

PloS One
Laura J BrylkaWilli Jahnen-Dechent

Abstract

Fetuin-A / α2-Heremans-Schmid-glycoprotein (gene name Ahsg) is a systemic inhibitor of ectopic calcification. Due to its high affinity for calcium phosphate, fetuin-A is highly abundant in mineralized bone matrix. Foreshortened femora in fetuin-A-deficient Ahsg-/- mice indicated a role for fetuin-A in bone formation. We studied early postnatal bone development in fetuin-A-deficient mice and discovered that femora from Ahsg-/- mice exhibited severely displaced distal epiphyses and deformed growth plates, similar to the human disease slipped capital femoral epiphysis (SCFE). The growth plate slippage occurred in 70% of Ahsg-/- mice of both sexes around three weeks postnatal. At this time point, mice weaned and rapidly gained weight and mobility. Epiphysis slippage never occurred in wildtype and heterozygous Ahsg+/- mice. Homozygous fetuin-A-deficient Ahsg-/- mice and, to a lesser degree, heterozygous Ahsg+/- mice showed lesions separating the proliferative zone from the hypertrophic zone of the growth plate. The hypertrophic growth plate cartilage in long bones from Ahsg-/- mice was significantly elongated and V-shaped until three weeks of age and thus prior to the slippage. Genome-wide transcriptome analysis of laser-dissected d...Continue Reading

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Nov 10, 2018·PloS One·Miriam Christina HeinenMartin Häusler
Oct 2, 2019·Frontiers in Immunology·Laura J Brylka, Thorsten Schinke
May 15, 2020·Current Opinion in Nephrology and Hypertension·Edward R SmithWilli Jahnen-Dechent
Jan 27, 2019·Scientific Reports·Konstantin KarmilinWalter Stöcker

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Methods Mentioned

BETA
chip
PCR
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laser capture microdissection
dissection

Software Mentioned

Bioconductor BiomaRt package
GraphPad
Affymetrix Expression Console
Fiji
Cibersort
GraphPad Prism

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