Journal: American journal of human genetics
Article Title: Estrogen receptor alpha and NFATc1 bind to a bone mineral density-associated SNP to repress WNT5B in osteoblasts.
doi: 10.1016/j.ajhg.2021.11.018
Figure Lengend Snippet: Figure 6. WNT5B activates WNT-PCP signaling pathway via ROR1/2 and inhibits b-catenin activity in osteoblasts (A) U2OS-ERa cells were transfected with Super8XTOPFlash (a luciferase reporter for b-catenin activity) together with empty vector (pcDNA3), WNT5B, WNT10B, or WNT5B with WNT10B vectors. After 48 h, relative luciferase activity was measured using dual-luciferase reporter assays. Firefly luciferase activity was normalized to pRL-SV40 (Renilla). (B) mOBs were differentiated for 7 days before treatment with or without 50 ng/mL rWNT5B for 30 min and the levels of active b-catenin (ABC) was detected by immunofluorescence. Scale bar ¼ 10 mM. Three different mOBs were tested in biological replicates and a repre- sentative image from one replicate is presented. (C) Differentiated mOBs at D7 were treated with 50 ng/mL rWNT5B and total cell lysate was collected at different time points before detecting the level of phospho-b-catenin (Ser552), ABC, total b-catenin, and b-actin by immunoblotting. (D and E) mOBs were differentiated for 7 days before treatment with or without 50 ng/mL rWNT5B for 30 min and localization of WNT5B with (D) ROR1 or (E) ROR2 were detected by immunofluorescence. Scale bar ¼ 10 mM. (F and G) mOBs were differentiated for 7 days and treated with 50 ng/mL rWNT5B, and protein was collected at 0, 15, 30, and 60 min. The levels of downstream effectors were detected with the indicated antibodies. (H–J) mOBs (H), MSCs (I), and MSC-derived adipocytes (J) were treated with or without 50 ng/mL rWNT5B for 24 h and qPCR was per- formed for Il6 mRNA. (K) mOBs were treated with 50 ng/mL rWNT5B for 1 h and then ChIP was performed using a specific antibody to phospho-c-Fos (Ser32) and qPCR using primers to mouse negative control binding site and the Il6 promoter. n ¼ 3, Student’s t test: ****p < 0.0001, **p < 0.01, *p < 0.05.
Article Snippet: Recombinant mouse WNT5B (rWNT5B; Cat. # 3006-WN) was acquired from R&D Systems.
Techniques: Activity Assay, Transfection, Luciferase, Plasmid Preparation, Western Blot, Derivative Assay, Negative Control, Binding Assay