PMID- 15138266 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20040817 LR - 20210209 IS - 0021-9258 (Print) IS - 0021-9258 (Linking) VI - 279 IP - 29 DP - 2004 Jul 16 TI - Regulation of collagen deposition and lysyl oxidase by tumor necrosis factor-alpha in osteoblasts. PG - 30060-5 AB - Tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha) inhibits osteoblast function in vitro by inhibiting collagen deposition. Studies generally support that TNF-alpha does not inhibit collagen biosynthesis by osteoblasts but that collagen deposition is in some way diminished. The study investigated TNF-alpha regulation of biosynthetic enzymes and proteins crucial for posttranslational extracellular collagen maturation in osteoblasts including procollagen C-proteinases, procollagen C-proteinase enhancer, and lysyl oxidase. The working hypothesis is that such regulation could inhibit collagen deposition by osteoblasts. We report that in phenotypically normal MC3T3-E1 osteoblasts, TNF-alpha decreases collagen deposition without decreasing collagen mRNA levels or procollagen protein synthesis. Analyses of the cell layers revealed that TNF-alpha diminished the levels of mature collagen cross-links, pyridinoline and deoxypyridinoline. Further analyses revealed that the mRNA expression for lysyl oxidase, the determining enzyme required for collagen cross-linking, is down-regulated by TNF-alpha in a concentration- and time-dependent manner by up to 50%. The decrease was accompanied by a significant reduction of lysyl oxidase protein levels and enzyme activity. By contrast, Northern and Western blotting studies revealed that procollagen C-proteinases bone morphogenic protein-1 and mammalians Tolloid and procollagen C-proteinase enhancer were expressed in MC3T3-E1 cells and not down-regulated. The data together demonstrate that TNF-alpha does not inhibit collagen synthesis but does inhibit the expression and activity of lysyl oxidase in osteoblasts, thereby contributing to perturbed collagen cross-linking and accumulation. These studies identify a novel mechanism in which proinflammatory cytokine modulation of an extracellular biosynthetic enzyme plays a determining role in the control of collagen accumulation by osteoblasts. FAU - Pischon, Nicole AU - Pischon N AD - Department of Oral Biology, Goldman School of Dental Medicine, Boston University, Boston, Massachussetts 02118, USA. FAU - Darbois, Laurent M AU - Darbois LM FAU - Palamakumbura, Amitha H AU - Palamakumbura AH FAU - Kessler, Efrat AU - Kessler E FAU - Trackman, Philip C AU - Trackman PC LA - eng GR - DE12209/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/United States GR - DE14066/DE/NIDCR NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PT - Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S. DEP - 20040510 PL - United States TA - J Biol Chem JT - The Journal of biological chemistry JID - 2985121R RN - 0 (Amino Acids) RN - 0 (Cross-Linking Reagents) RN - 0 (RNA, Messenger) RN - 0 (Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha) RN - 63800-01-1 (pyridinoline) RN - 90032-33-0 (deoxypyridinoline) RN - 9007-34-5 (Collagen) RN - EC 1.4.3.13 (Protein-Lysine 6-Oxidase) SB - IM MH - Amino Acids/pharmacology MH - Animals MH - Blotting, Northern MH - Blotting, Western MH - Cell Line MH - Collagen/*metabolism MH - Cross-Linking Reagents/pharmacology MH - Dose-Response Relationship, Drug MH - Down-Regulation MH - Inflammation MH - Mice MH - Osteoblasts/*metabolism MH - Protein Structure, Tertiary MH - Protein-Lysine 6-Oxidase/*metabolism MH - RNA, Messenger/metabolism MH - Time Factors MH - Tumor Necrosis Factor-alpha/*metabolism EDAT- 2004/05/13 05:00 MHDA- 2004/08/18 05:00 CRDT- 2004/05/13 05:00 PHST- 2004/05/13 05:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2004/08/18 05:00 [medline] PHST- 2004/05/13 05:00 [entrez] AID - S0021-9258(19)71016-3 [pii] AID - 10.1074/jbc.M404208200 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - J Biol Chem. 2004 Jul 16;279(29):30060-5. doi: 10.1074/jbc.M404208200. Epub 2004 May 10.