Nature Communications (Nov 2022)

Impaired mitochondrial oxidative metabolism in skeletal progenitor cells leads to musculoskeletal disintegration

  • Chujiao Lin,
  • Qiyuan Yang,
  • Dongsheng Guo,
  • Jun Xie,
  • Yeon-Suk Yang,
  • Sachin Chaugule,
  • Ngoc DeSouza,
  • Won-Taek Oh,
  • Rui Li,
  • Zhihao Chen,
  • Aijaz A. John,
  • Qiang Qiu,
  • Lihua Julie Zhu,
  • Matthew B. Greenblatt,
  • Sankar Ghosh,
  • Shaoguang Li,
  • Guangping Gao,
  • Cole Haynes,
  • Charles P. Emerson,
  • Jae-Hyuck Shim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-34694-8
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Skeletal progenitors provide a reservoir for bone-forming osteoblasts. However, the major energy source for their osteogenesis remains unresolved. Here, the authors demonstrate that ESCIT-mediated regulation of mitochondrial metabolism is required for osteogenesis.