Cartilage formation during both embryonic development and bone repairing processes involves mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) differentiation. Wnt/β-catenin signaling pathway inhibits early chondrogenesis and is down-regulated during Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1)-induced chondrogenesis. However, the regulatory molecules that participate in the process is unknown. This study was designed to investigate the underlying mechanisms that down-regulate Wnt/β-catenin pathway during chondrogenesis. TGF-β1-induced micromass cultures of C3H10T1/2 were used as chondrocyte differentiation model. Gene expression profile was detected by realtime-PCR. Regulatory role of HDAC1 on β-catenin was investigated by luciferase assay, chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay, co-immunoprecipitation (Co-IP) assay and in vitro ubiquitination assay. In this study, we showed that HDAC1 was induced and suppressed β-catenin gene expression through direct binding to its promoter. Besides, HDAC1 could also interact with deacetylate β-catenin protein through its deacetylase domain, which causes degradation of β-catenin. Our results indicate that HDAC1 plays an important role in chondrogenesis and may represent a therapeutic target for modulation of cartilage development.
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Univ Paris Est Creteil, INSERM, IMRB, Creteil, France.
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Department of Biology, Faculty of Arts and Sciences, University of Balamand, Tripoli, Lebanon.
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