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SUBMITTER: Otero JE
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3153134 | biostudies-other | 2010 Jun
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Otero Jesse E JE Dai Simon S Alhawagri Muhammad A MA Darwech Isra I Abu-Amer Yousef Y
Journal of bone and mineral research : the official journal of the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research 20100601 6
Monocytes differentiate into osteoclasts through stimulation of receptor activator of NF-kappaB (RANK). Many downstream effectors of RANK play a positive role in osteoclastogenesis, but their relative importance in osteoclast differentiation is unclear. We report the discovery that activation of a single pathway downstream of RANK is sufficient for osteoclast differentiation. In this regard, introduction of constitutively activated IKKbeta (IKKbeta(SSEE)) but not wild-type IKKbeta into monocytes ...[more]