Chapter 5. Osteoclast fusion and fission

نویسندگان

  • Ineke D.C. Jansen
  • Jenny A.F. Vermeer
  • Veerle Bloemen
  • Jan Stap
  • Vincent Everts
چکیده

Osteoclasts are specialized multinucleated cells with the unique capacity to resorb bone. Despite insight in the various steps of the interaction of osteoclast precursors leading to osteoclast formation, surprisingly little is known about what happens with the multinucleated cell itself after it has been formed. Is fusion limited to the short period of its formation or have osteoclasts the capacity to change their size and number of nuclei at a later stage? To visualize these processes we analyzed osteoclasts generated in vitro with M-CSF and RANKL from mouse bone marrow and native osteoclasts isolated from rabbit bones by live cell microscopy. We showed that osteoclasts fuse not only with mononuclear cells but also with other multinucleated cells. The most intriguing finding, was fission of the osteoclasts. Osteoclasts were shown to have the capacity to generate functional multinucleated compartments as well as compartments that contained apoptotic nuclei. These compartments were separated from each other; each giving rise to a different functional osteoclast or to a compartment that contained apoptotic nuclei. Our findings suggest that osteoclasts have the capacity to regulate their own population in number and function, probably to adapt quickly to changing situations.

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تاریخ انتشار 2014