Nature Communications (Jul 2022)

Mast4 determines the cell fate of MSCs for bone and cartilage development

  • Pyunggang Kim,
  • Jinah Park,
  • Dong-Joon Lee,
  • Seiya Mizuno,
  • Masahiro Shinohara,
  • Chang Pyo Hong,
  • Yealeen Jeong,
  • Rebecca Yun,
  • Hyeyeon Park,
  • Sujin Park,
  • Kyung-Min Yang,
  • Min-Jung Lee,
  • Seung Pil Jang,
  • Hyun-Yi Kim,
  • Seung-Jun Lee,
  • Sun U. Song,
  • Kyung-Soon Park,
  • Mikako Tanaka,
  • Hayato Ohshima,
  • Jin Won Cho,
  • Fumihiro Sugiyama,
  • Satoru Takahashi,
  • Han-Sung Jung,
  • Seong-Jin Kim

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-31697-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Controlling fate decision of mesenchymal stromal cells (MSC) is important for their clinical application. Here the authors demonstrate that TGF-β-induced Mast4 suppression and Wnt-mediated Mast4 stabilization regulate MSC differentiation into cartilage and bone, respectively.