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Activation of PTHrP-cAMP-CREB1 signaling following p53 loss is essential for osteosarcoma initiation and maintenance

  1. Mannu K Walia
  2. Patricia MW Ho
  3. Scott Taylor
  4. Alvin JM Ng
  5. Ankita Gupte
  6. Alistair M Chalk
  7. Andrew CW Zannettino
  8. T John Martin
  9. Carl R Walkley  Is a corresponding author
  1. St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Australia
  2. University of Adelaide, Australia
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13446
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  1. Mannu K Walia
  2. Patricia MW Ho
  3. Scott Taylor
  4. Alvin JM Ng
  5. Ankita Gupte
  6. Alistair M Chalk
  7. Andrew CW Zannettino
  8. T John Martin
  9. Carl R Walkley
(2016)
Activation of PTHrP-cAMP-CREB1 signaling following p53 loss is essential for osteosarcoma initiation and maintenance
eLife 5:e13446.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13446
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Abstract

Mutations in the P53 pathway are a hallmark of human cancer. The identification of pathways upon which p53-deficient cells depend could reveal therapeutic targets that may spare normal cells with intact p53. In contrast to P53 point mutations in other cancer, complete loss of P53 is a frequent event in osteosarcoma (OS), the most common cancer of bone. The consequences of p53 loss for osteoblastic cells and OS development are poorly understood. Here we use murine OS models to demonstrate that elevated Pthlh (Pthrp), cAMP levels and signalling via CREB1 are characteristic of both p53-deficient osteoblasts and OS. Normal osteoblasts survive depletion of both PTHrP and CREB1. In contrast, p53-deficient osteoblasts and OS depend upon continuous activation of this pathway and undergo proliferation arrest and apoptosis in the absence of PTHrP or CREB1. Our results identify the PTHrP-cAMP-CREB1 axis as an attractive pathway for therapeutic inhibition in OS.

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  1. Mannu K Walia

    St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Australia
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  2. Patricia MW Ho

    St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Australia
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  3. Scott Taylor

    St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Australia
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  4. Alvin JM Ng

    St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Australia
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  5. Ankita Gupte

    St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Australia
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  6. Alistair M Chalk

    St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Australia
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  7. Andrew CW Zannettino

    Myeloma Research Laboratory, School of Medicine, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Adelaide, Adelaide, Australia
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  8. T John Martin

    St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Australia
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  9. Carl R Walkley

    St. Vincent's Institute of Medical Research, Fitzroy, Australia
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Animal experimentation: This study was performed in strict accordance with the recommendations in the Guide for the Care and Use of Laboratory Animals of the National Health and Medical Research Council, Australia and the Bureau of Animal Welfare, Victorian Government . All of the animals were handled according to approved institutional animal care and use committee (Animal Ethics Committee) protocols (#017/15) of the St. Vincent's Hospital Melbourne.

Human subjects: Primary human osteoblasts were isolated from bone marrow aspirates from the posterior iliac crest of de-identified healthy human adult donors with informed consent and consent to publish (IMVS/SA Pathology normal bone marrow donor program RAH#940911a, Adelaide, South Australia).

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© 2016, Walia et al.

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  1. Mannu K Walia
  2. Patricia MW Ho
  3. Scott Taylor
  4. Alvin JM Ng
  5. Ankita Gupte
  6. Alistair M Chalk
  7. Andrew CW Zannettino
  8. T John Martin
  9. Carl R Walkley
(2016)
Activation of PTHrP-cAMP-CREB1 signaling following p53 loss is essential for osteosarcoma initiation and maintenance
eLife 5:e13446.
https://doi.org/10.7554/eLife.13446

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