Sarah Weske, Mithila Vaidya, Alina Reese, Karin von Wnuck Lipinski, Petra Keul, Julia K Bayer, Jens W Fischer, Ulrich Flögel, Jens Nelsen, Matthias Epple, Marta Scatena, Edzard Schwedhelm, Marcus Dörr, Henry Völzke, Eileen Moritz, Anke Hannemann, Bernhard H Rauch, Markus H Gräler, Gerd Heusch, Bodo Levkau
Sphingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) signaling influences bone metabolism, but its therapeutic potential in bone disorders has remained unexplored. We show that raising S1P levels in adult mice through conditionally deleting or pharmacologically inhibiting S1P lyase, the sole enzyme responsible for irreversibly degrading S1P, markedly increased bone formation, mass and strength and substantially decreased white adipose tissue. S1P signaling through S1P2 potently stimulated osteoblastogenesis at the expense of adipogenesis by inversely regulating osterix and PPAR-γ, and it simultaneously inhibited osteoclastogenesis by inducing osteoprotegerin through newly discovered p38-GSK3β-β-catenin and WNT5A-LRP5 pathways...
April 16, 2018: Nature Medicine