PMID- 25524638 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20160115 LR - 20191008 IS - 1549-4918 (Electronic) IS - 1066-5099 (Print) IS - 1066-5099 (Linking) VI - 33 IP - 4 DP - 2015 Apr TI - p53 loss increases the osteogenic differentiation of bone marrow stromal cells. PG - 1304-19 LID - 10.1002/stem.1925 [doi] AB - The tumor suppressor, p53, plays a critical role in suppressing osteosarcoma. Bone marrow stromal cells (BMSCs, also known as bone marrow-derived mesenchymal stem cells) have been suggested to give rise to osteosarcomas. However, the role of p53 in BMSCs has not been extensively explored. Here, we report that p53 regulates the lineage choice of mouse BMSCs (mBMSCs). Compared to mBMSCs with wild-type p53, mBMSCs deficient in p53 have enhanced osteogenic differentiation, but with similar adipogenic and chondrogenic differentiation. The role of p53 in inhibiting osteogenic lineage differentiation is mainly through the action of Runx2, a master transcription factor required for the osteogenic differentiation of mBMSCs. We find that p53 indirectly represses the expression of Runx2 by activating the microRNA-34 family, which suppresses the translation of Runx2. Since osteosarcoma may derive from BMSCs, we examined whether p53 has a role in the osteogenic differentiation of osteosarcoma cells and found that osteosarcoma cells with p53 deletion have higher levels of Runx2 and faster osteogenic differentiation than those with wild-type p53. A systems biology approach reveals that p53-deficient mBMSCs are more closely related to human osteosarcoma while mBMSCs with wild-type p53 are similar to normal human BMSCs. In summary, our results indicate that p53 activity can influence cell fate specification of mBMSCs, and provide molecular and cellular insights into the observation that p53 loss is associated with increased osteosarcoma incidence. CI - (c) 2014 AlphaMed Press. FAU - He, Yunlong AU - He Y AD - Cancer and Stem Cell Epigenetics Section, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Genetics. FAU - de Castro, Luis F AU - de Castro LF FAU - Shin, Min Hwa AU - Shin MH FAU - Dubois, Wendy AU - Dubois W FAU - Yang, Howard H AU - Yang HH FAU - Jiang, Shunlin AU - Jiang S FAU - Mishra, Pravin J AU - Mishra PJ FAU - Ren, Ling AU - Ren L FAU - Gou, Hongfeng AU - Gou H FAU - Lal, Ashish AU - Lal A FAU - Khanna, Chand AU - Khanna C FAU - Merlino, Glenn AU - Merlino G FAU - Lee, Maxwell AU - Lee M FAU - Robey, Pamela G AU - Robey PG FAU - Huang, Jing AU - Huang J LA - eng GR - Z99 CA999999/Intramural NIH HHS/United States GR - ZIA BC011158-06/Intramural NIH HHS/United States GR - ZIA BC011504-01/Intramural NIH HHS/United States GR - ZIA BC011504-02/Intramural NIH HHS/United States PT - Journal Article PT - Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural PT - Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't PL - England TA - Stem Cells JT - Stem cells (Dayton, Ohio) JID - 9304532 RN - 0 (Tumor Suppressor Protein p53) SB - IM MH - Animals MH - Cell Differentiation/*physiology MH - Cell Line, Tumor MH - Cells, Cultured MH - Humans MH - Mesenchymal Stem Cells/*metabolism MH - Mice MH - Mice, Knockout MH - Osteogenesis/*physiology MH - Tumor Suppressor Protein p53/*deficiency PMC - PMC4376591 MID - NIHMS649671 OTO - NOTNLM OT - Bone marrow stromal cells OT - Mesenchymal stem cells OT - Osteosarcoma OT - p53 COIS- Conflict of Interests The authors declare no conflict of interest. EDAT- 2014/12/20 06:00 MHDA- 2016/01/16 06:00 PMCR- 2016/04/01 CRDT- 2014/12/20 06:00 PHST- 2014/05/15 00:00 [received] PHST- 2014/10/22 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2014/11/07 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2014/12/20 06:00 [entrez] PHST- 2014/12/20 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2016/01/16 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2016/04/01 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1002/stem.1925 [doi] PST - ppublish SO - Stem Cells. 2015 Apr;33(4):1304-19. doi: 10.1002/stem.1925.