Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

TGFβ reprograms TNF stimulation of macrophages towards a non-canonical pathway driving inflammatory osteoclastogenesis

  • Yuhan Xia,
  • Kazuki Inoue,
  • Yong Du,
  • Stacey J. Baker,
  • E. Premkumar Reddy,
  • Matthew B. Greenblatt,
  • Baohong Zhao

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31475-1
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 21

Abstract

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Mechanisms for inflammatory osteolysis are unclear. Here, Xia et al. find that TGFβ shifts the inflammatory action of TNF on macrophages to a potent osteoclastogenic function and identify a novel TGFβ/TNF-mediated non-canonical osteoclastogenic program.