Multiple myeloma disrupts the TRANCE/ osteoprotegerin cytokine axis to trigger bone destruction and promote tumor progression. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Bone destruction, caused by aberrant production and activation of osteoclasts, is a prominent feature of multiple myeloma. We demonstrate that myeloma stimulates osteoclastogenesis by triggering a coordinated increase in the tumor necrosis factor-related activation-induced cytokine (TRANCE) and decrease in its decoy receptor, osteoprotegerin (OPG). Immunohistochemistry and in situ hybridization studies of bone marrow specimens indicate that in vivo, deregulation of the TRANCE-OPG cytokine axis occurs in myeloma, but not in the limited plasma cell disorder monoclonal gammopathy of unknown significance or in nonmyeloma hematologic malignancies. In coculture, myeloma cell lines stimulate expression of TRANCE and inhibit expression of OPG by stromal cells. Osteoclastogenesis, the functional consequence of increased TRANCE expression, is counteracted by addition of a recombinant TRANCE inhibitor, RANK-Fc, to marrow/myeloma cocultures. Myeloma-stroma interaction also has been postulated to support progression of the malignant clone. In the SCID-hu murine model of human myeloma, administration of RANK-Fc both prevents myeloma-induced bone destruction and interferes with myeloma progression. Our data identify TRANCE and OPG as key cytokines whose deregulation promotes bone destruction and supports myeloma growth.

authors

  • Pearse, Roger N
  • Sordillo, E M
  • Yaccoby, Shmuel
  • Wong, B R
  • Liau, D F
  • Colman, Neville
  • Michaeli, Joseph
  • Epstein, Joshua
  • Choi, Yongwon

publication date

  • September 18, 2001

Research

keywords

  • Glycoproteins

Identity

PubMed Central ID

  • PMC58772

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0035949510

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1073/pnas.201394498

PubMed ID

  • 11562486

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 98

issue

  • 20