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  • Title: Cortisol enhances the expression of mac25/insulin-like growth factor-binding protein-related protein-1 in cultured osteoblasts.
    Author: Pereira RC, Blanquaert F, Canalis E.
    Journal: Endocrinology; 1999 Jan; 140(1):228-32. PubMed ID: 9886829.
    Abstract:
    Glucocorticoids inhibit the synthesis of insulin-like growth factor I (IGF-I) and regulate the expression of IGF-binding proteins (IGFBPs) in osteoblast cultures. IGFBP-related protein-1 (IGFBP-rP1), the product of the mac25 gene, binds IGF-I, IGF-II, and insulin, and we postulated that glucocorticoids regulate IGFBP-rP1 synthesis in osteoblasts. We tested the expression of mac25/IGFBP-rP1 in cultures of osteoblast-enriched cells from 22-day-old fetal rat calvariae (Ob cells). Cortisol treatment at 10 nM to 1 microM for 24-48 h caused a time- and dose-dependent increase in mac25/IGFBP-rP1 messenger RNA (mRNA) levels in Ob cells. Cycloheximide at 3.6 microM did not alter mac25/IGFBP-rP1 transcripts in control or cortisol-treated cells. Cortisol did not modify the decay of mac25/IGFBP-rP1 mRNA in transcriptionally arrested Ob cells and increased the rate of IGFBP-rP1 transcription as determined by nuclear run-on assays. Retinoic acid also increased mac25/IGFBP-rP1 mRNA levels, but 17beta-estradiol, testosterone, 5alpha-dihydrotestosterone, progesterone, and 1,25-dihydroxyvitamin D3 did not. In conclusion, cortisol stimulates mac25/IGFBP-rP1 expression in Ob cells by transcriptional mechanisms. As IGFBP-rP1 binds and possibly modifies the effects of IGFs and insulin, its increased expression could be relevant to the inhibitory actions of cortisol in bone.
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