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A Murine Model for Human ECO Syndrome Reveals a Critical Role of Intestinal Cell Kinase in Skeletal Development.

Calcif Tissue Int. 2018 Mar;102(3):348-357. Epub 2017 Nov 02
Mengmeng Ding 1 , Li Jin 2 , Lin Xie 3 , So Hyun Park 4 , Yixin Tong 5 , Di Wu 4 , A Bobby Chhabra 2 , Zheng Fu 6 , Xudong Li 7
Mengmeng Ding 1 , Li Jin 2 , Lin Xie 3 , So Hyun Park 4 , Yixin Tong 5 , Di Wu 4 , A Bobby Chhabra 2 , Zheng Fu 6 , Xudong Li 7
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  • 1 Department of Anesthesiology, Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University, Shenyang, China.
  • 2 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia, 135 Hospital Dr., Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA.
  • 3 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Wuhan Orthopaedic Hospital, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Hubei, 430030, China.
  • 4 Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, PO Box 800735, 1340 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA.
  • 5 The Gastrointestinal Surgery Center, Tongji Hospital, Huazhong University of Science & Technology, Hubei, 430030, China.
  • 6 Department of Pharmacology, University of Virginia, PO Box 800735, 1340 Jefferson Park Avenue, Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA. zf6n@virginia.edu.
  • 7 Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, University of Virginia, 135 Hospital Dr., Charlottesville, VA, 22908, USA. xl2n@virginia.edu.

摘要


An autosomal-recessive inactivating mutation R272Q in the human intestinal cell kinase (ICK) gene caused profound multiplex developmental defects in human endocrine-cerebro-osteodysplasia (ECO) syndrome. ECO patients exhibited a wide variety of skeletal abnormalities, yet the underlying mechanisms by which ICK regulates skeletal development remained largely unknown. The goal of this study was to understand the structural and mechanistic basis underlying skeletal anomalies caused by ICK dysfunction. Ick R272Q knock-in transgenic mouse model not only recapitulated major ECO skeletal defects such as short limbs and polydactyly but also revealed a deformed spine with defective intervertebral disk. Loss of ICK function markedly reduced mineralization in the spinal column, ribs, and long bones. Ick mutants showed a significant decrease in the proliferation zone of long bones and the number of type X collagen-expressing hypertrophic chondrocytes in the spinal column and the growth plate of long bones. These results implicate that ICK plays an important role in bone and cartilage development by promoting chondrocyte proliferation and maturation. Our findings provided new mechanistic insights into the skeletal phenotype of human ECO and ECO-like syndromes.

KEYWORDS: Bone development, Endocrine-cerebro-osteodysplasia syndrome, Hypertrophic chondrocyte, Intervertebral disk, Intestinal cell kinase