Nature Communications (Mar 2019)

TG-interacting factor 1 (Tgif1)-deficiency attenuates bone remodeling and blunts the anabolic response to parathyroid hormone

  • Hiroaki Saito,
  • Andreas Gasser,
  • Simona Bolamperti,
  • Miki Maeda,
  • Levi Matthies,
  • Katharina Jähn,
  • Courtney L. Long,
  • Hartmut Schlüter,
  • Marcel Kwiatkowski,
  • Vaibhav Saini,
  • Paola Divieti Pajevic,
  • Teresita Bellido,
  • Andre J. van Wijnen,
  • Khalid S. Mohammad,
  • Theresa A. Guise,
  • Hanna Taipaleenmäki,
  • Eric Hesse

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08778-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 14

Abstract

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Parathyroid hormone (PTH) is used to treat osteoporosis, but its therapeutic mechanism remains unclear. Here, the authors show that Tgif1 is a PTH target gene, and that its deletion impairs the function of osteoblasts and PTH-induced bone formation in mice.