Endocrinology, Vol 136, 842-848, Copyright © 1995 by Endocrine Society

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Carboxyl-terminal peptides from parathyroid hormone-related protein stimulate osteoclast-like cell formation

H Kaji, T Sugimoto, M Kanatani, M Fukase and K Chihara
Department of Medicine, Kobe University School of Medicine, Japan.

The role of the carboxyl (C)-terminal portion of PTH-related protein (PTHrP) in bone resorption continues to be controversial. The present study was performed to examine the effect of C-terminal PTHrP peptides on osteoclast-like cell formation as well as bone resorption in mice. C- Terminal PTHrP peptides [human (h) PTHrP-(107-139) and hPTHrP-(107- 111); 10(-10)-10(-8) M] stimulated osteoclast-like cell formation in a concentration-dependent manner in osteoblast-containing mouse bone cell cultures. Moreover, osteoclast-like cells newly formed by these peptides possessed the ability to form pits on the dentine slices. The conditioned medium from UMR-106 cells and MC3T3-E1 cells pretreated with the C-terminal peptides did not affect osteoclast-like cell formation from mouse hemopoietic blast cells derived from spleen cells. The C-terminal peptides as well as hPTHrP-(1-34) stimulated osteoclast- like cell formation from mouse hemopoietic blast cells in the absence of osteoblasts, although both amino- and C-terminal peptides were unable to support hemopoietic blast cells. Protein kinase-C inhibitors (H-7 and staurosporine) almost completely inhibited the stimulation of osteoclast-like cell formation by the C-terminal peptides in both the presence and absence of osteoblasts. The C-terminal peptides did not affect bone resorption by mature osteoclasts in osteoblast-containing mouse bone cell cultures. The present study indicates that C-terminal PTHrP peptides possess the ability to stimulate osteoclast-like cell formation in both the presence and absence of osteoblasts, possibly through the pathway involving protein kinase-C activation.

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