Nature Communications (Mar 2023)

Insights into pulmonary phosphate homeostasis and osteoclastogenesis emerge from the study of pulmonary alveolar microlithiasis

  • Yasuaki Uehara,
  • Yusuke Tanaka,
  • Shuyang Zhao,
  • Nikolaos M. Nikolaidis,
  • Lori B. Pitstick,
  • Huixing Wu,
  • Jane J. Yu,
  • Erik Zhang,
  • Yoshihiro Hasegawa,
  • John G. Noel,
  • Jason C. Gardner,
  • Elizabeth J. Kopras,
  • Wendy D. Haffey,
  • Kenneth D. Greis,
  • Jinbang Guo,
  • Jason C. Woods,
  • Kathryn A. Wikenheiser-Brokamp,
  • Jennifer E. Kyle,
  • Charles Ansong,
  • Steven L. Teitelbaum,
  • Yoshikazu Inoue,
  • Göksel Altinişik,
  • Yan Xu,
  • Francis X. McCormack

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36810-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Osteoclasts are derived from circulating myeloid cells to mediate bone repair, maintenance and remodeling. Here, the authors show that the lung also recruits and reprograms monocytes and alveolar macrophages into osteoclast-like cells to clear pathogenic particles from the airspace.