Nature Communications (Feb 2023)

Sugar transporter Slc37a2 regulates bone metabolism in mice via a tubular lysosomal network in osteoclasts

  • Pei Ying Ng,
  • Amy B. P. Ribet,
  • Qiang Guo,
  • Benjamin H. Mullin,
  • Jamie W. Y. Tan,
  • Euphemie Landao-Bassonga,
  • Sébastien Stephens,
  • Kai Chen,
  • Jinbo Yuan,
  • Laila Abudulai,
  • Maike Bollen,
  • Edward T. T. T. Nguyen,
  • Jasreen Kular,
  • John M. Papadimitriou,
  • Kent Søe,
  • Rohan D. Teasdale,
  • Jiake Xu,
  • Robert G. Parton,
  • Hiroshi Takayanagi,
  • Nathan J. Pavlos

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-36484-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 14, no. 1
pp. 1 – 23

Abstract

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Despite the importance of osteoclast secretory lysosomes in bone digestion, the proteins that regulate them remain ill defined. Here, the authors identify Slc37a2 as a secretory lysosome sugar transporter that is required for maintenance of skeletal bone mass.