Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Osteoclast-derived exosomal miR-214-3p inhibits osteoblastic bone formation

  • Defang Li,
  • Jin Liu,
  • Baosheng Guo,
  • Chao Liang,
  • Lei Dang,
  • Cheng Lu,
  • Xiaojuan He,
  • Hilda Yeuk-Siu Cheung,
  • Liang Xu,
  • Changwei Lu,
  • Bing He,
  • Biao Liu,
  • Atik Badshah Shaikh,
  • Fangfei Li,
  • Luyao Wang,
  • Zhijun Yang,
  • Doris Wai-Ting Au,
  • Songlin Peng,
  • Zongkang Zhang,
  • Bao-Ting Zhang,
  • Xiaohua Pan,
  • Airong Qian,
  • Peng Shang,
  • Lianbo Xiao,
  • Baohong Jiang,
  • Chris Kong-Chu Wong,
  • Jiake Xu,
  • Zhaoxiang Bian,
  • Zicai Liang,
  • De-an Guo,
  • Hailong Zhu,
  • Weihong Tan,
  • Aiping Lu,
  • Ge Zhang

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10872
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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In previous studies the authors discovered that miR-214 inhibits osteoblastic bone formation. Here they extend on these findings, using ovariectomized mice and samples from patients with bone fractures, to show that miR-214 is a mediator of osteoclast-osteoblast crosstalk.