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Abstract Number: 2127

Dicam Promotes Proliferation and Hypertrophic Differentiation of Chondrocyte through Indian Hedgehog Signaling of Primary Cilia

Seungwoo Han1,2, Hye-Ri Park2, Min-Su Han2, Eun-Ju Lee2, Ji-Ae Jang2, Ji-Min Kim3, Gun-Woo Kim2,4 and Younkwan Jung2, 1Internal Medicine, Daegu Fatima hospital, Daegu, Korea, The Republic of, 2Fatima Research Institute, Daegu, Korea, The Republic of, 3Division of Rheumatology, Department of Internal Medicine, Dongsan Medical Center, Keimyung University School of Medicine, Daegu, Korea, The Republic of, 4Rheumatology, Daegu Fatima hospital, Daegu, Korea, The Republic of

Meeting: 2016 ACR/ARHP Annual Meeting

Date of first publication: September 28, 2016

Keywords: Adhesion molecules, Animal models, chondrocytes and osteoarthritis

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Date: Tuesday, November 15, 2016

Session Title: Biology and Pathology of Bone and Joint - Poster I

Session Type: ACR Poster Session C

Session Time: 9:00AM-11:00AM

Background/Purpose: Chondrocytes in growth plate is known to respond to hydrostatic loading by increasing Indian hedgehog (Ihh) signaling, and that the primary cilium is required for this mechano-biological signal transduction to occur. Dicam (dual Ig domain containing cell adhesion molecule) was originally cloned from human chondrocyte cell-line, HCS-2/8 cells, but the role during endochondral bone formation and osteoarthritis has not been elucidated. This study reveals that Dicam has a novel function as a modulator of primary cilia-mediated Ihh signaling in chondrocytes.

Methods: Primary chondrocytes and tibia were isolated from limbs of C57BL/6 embryo (E15.5) and used in vitro study. Cartilage-specific Dicam transgenic (Col2-DICAM-Tg) mice were constructed and the phenotype of E15.5 long bone was compared with their wild type-littermates.

Results:  Dicam mainly expressed in resting and proliferating chondrocytes in growth plate and it was increased by Pthrp and BMP2 in primary chondrocytes. Gain-of function study with Col2-Dicam-Tg revealed that Dicam increased length of long bones. Col2-Dicam-Tg showed an increased expression of chondrogenic, Col2a1 and proliferating marker, PCNA in immunostaining analysis. In addition, early and late hypertrophic chondrocyte marker, Col10a1 and MMP13, respectively, also increased in Col2-Dicam-Tg compared to wild-type. To elucidate a molecular mechanism of Dicam, we checked the major signaling targets in chondrogenesis, which showed an increased expression of Hhip and Zfp521, the target molecule of Ihh and Pthrp signaling, respectively. Other Ihh signaling molecules such as Ptch1, Gli2, and Gli3 and Ihh itself were also increased by Dicam overexpression in primary chondrocytes. Mechanistically, Dicam was localized to primary cilia of chondrocytes and increased a number of primary cilia and their assembly molecule, IFT88/polaris. Both knock-down of IFT88/polaris and hedgehog signaling antagonist, cyclopamine, attenuated the Dicam-mediated increase of length in primary tibia organ culture.

Conclusion: Dicam was localized to primary cilia and increased proliferation and hypertrophic differentiation of chondrocytes through Ihh signaling resulting in an increase of bone length In Vivo.


Disclosure: S. Han, None; H. R. Park, None; M. S. Han, None; E. J. Lee, None; J. A. Jang, None; J. M. Kim, None; G. W. Kim, None; Y. Jung, None.

To cite this abstract in AMA style:

Han S, Park HR, Han MS, Lee EJ, Jang JA, Kim JM, Kim GW, Jung Y. Dicam Promotes Proliferation and Hypertrophic Differentiation of Chondrocyte through Indian Hedgehog Signaling of Primary Cilia [abstract]. Arthritis Rheumatol. 2016; 68 (suppl 10). https://acrabstracts.org/abstract/dicam-promotes-proliferation-and-hypertrophic-differentiation-of-chondrocyte-through-indian-hedgehog-signaling-of-primary-cilia/. Accessed May 26, 2022.
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