Nature Communications (Jul 2020)

A FAK/HDAC5 signaling axis controls osteocyte mechanotransduction

  • Tadatoshi Sato,
  • Shiv Verma,
  • Christian D. Castro Andrade,
  • Maureen Omeara,
  • Nia Campbell,
  • Jialiang S. Wang,
  • Murat Cetinbas,
  • Audrey Lang,
  • Brandon J. Ausk,
  • Daniel J. Brooks,
  • Ruslan I. Sadreyev,
  • Henry M. Kronenberg,
  • David Lagares,
  • Yuhei Uda,
  • Paola Divieti Pajevic,
  • Mary L. Bouxsein,
  • Ted S. Gross,
  • Marc N. Wein

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-17099-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 18

Abstract

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Osteocytes are mechanoresponsive within skeletal tissue. Here, the authors show that class IIa histone deacetylases are phosphorylated by focal adhesion kinase, suggesting that HDAC5 may propagate mechanobiological cues to regulate cell type-specific gene expression.