Nature Communications (Dec 2022)

Regulation of bone homeostasis by MERTK and TYRO3

  • Janik Engelmann,
  • Jennifer Zarrer,
  • Victoria Gensch,
  • Kristoffer Riecken,
  • Nikolaus Berenbrok,
  • The Vinh Luu,
  • Antonia Beitzen-Heineke,
  • Maria Elena Vargas-Delgado,
  • Klaus Pantel,
  • Carsten Bokemeyer,
  • Somasekhar Bhamidipati,
  • Ihab S. Darwish,
  • Esteban Masuda,
  • Tal Burstyn-Cohen,
  • Emily J. Alberto,
  • Sourav Ghosh,
  • Carla Rothlin,
  • Eric Hesse,
  • Hanna Taipaleenmäki,
  • Isabel Ben-Batalla,
  • Sonja Loges

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-33938-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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The TAM family of receptor tyrosine kinases exerts pleiotropic functions in health and disease. Here, the authors show that TAM receptors control osteoblastic bone formation and identified MERTK as a novel target for bone anabolic therapy and mitigation of bone metastasis including its associated osteolytic bone disease