Bone resorption by osteoclasts requires lysosomes to release proteases into the resorption lacuna. Ferron et al. find that the osteoclast differentiation factor RANKL promotes lysosomal biogenesis once osteoclasts are differentiated through the selective activation of TFEB. PKCβ phosphorylation of TFEB stabilizes and increases its activity. Mice lacking either TFEB or PKCβ in their osteoclasts exhibit decreased lysosomal gene expression and increased bone mass. These results uncover RANKL-dependent signaling occurring in differentiated osteoclasts to enhance lysosomal biogenesis, a necessary step for proper bone resorption.
Keywords: osteoclast, RANKL, lysosomal biogenesis, TFEB, PKCβ
Abstract
Bone resorption by osteoclasts requires a large number of lysosomes that release proteases in the resorption lacuna. Whether lysosomal biogenesis is a consequence of the action of transcriptional regulators of osteoclast differentiation or is under the control of a different and specific transcriptional pathway remains unknown. We show here, through cell-based assays and cell-specific gene deletion experiments in mice, that the osteoclast differentiation factor RANKL promotes lysosomal biogenesis once osteoclasts are differentiated through the selective activation of TFEB, a member of the MITF/TFE family of transcription factors. This occurs following PKCβ phosphorylation of TFEB on three serine residues located in its last 15 amino acids. This post-translational modification stabilizes and increases the activity of this transcription factor. Supporting these biochemical observations, mice lacking in osteoclasts—either TFEB or PKCβ—show decreased lysosomal gene expression and increased bone mass. Altogether, these results uncover a RANKL-dependent signaling pathway taking place in differentiated osteoclasts and culminating in the activation of TFEB to enhance lysosomal biogenesis—a necessary step for proper bone resorption.
Bone is constantly remodeled through the coordinated action of two cell types: the osteoblast and the osteoclast (Ducy et al. 2000; Teitelbaum 2000). While the osteoblast synthesizes and mineralizes the bone extracellular matrix (ECM), the osteoclast is responsible for resorbing this mineralized ECM. To achieve this specialized task, differentiated and multinucleated osteoclasts attach tightly to the bone surface and generate closed resorption lacunae. These resorption lacunae are characterized by an acidic pH (∼4.5) and contain numerous proteases that are exported by the large number of lysosomes present in this cell type (Coxon and Taylor 2008). Proteases and acidification of the lacunae are both necessary for efficient bone resorption. The importance of lysosomal biogenesis for osteoclast function and optimum bone resorption underscores the need to elucidate how this aspect of osteoclast biology is regulated.
Over the last two decades, our understanding of the mechanisms by which cells of the myeloid lineage differentiate into functional multinucleated osteoclasts has made considerable progress (Teitelbaum and Ross 2003; Takayanagi 2007). This led to the identification of two cytokines, RANKL and M-CSF (Yoshida et al. 1990; Lacey et al. 1998), as critical determinants of this process and the identification of numerous transcription factors acting downstream from these cytokines. Some of these factors—PU.1, c-FOS, JunB, Fra-1, NFκB, and PPARγ—act early in the differentiation process within the myeloid precursor cells (Grigoriadis et al. 1994; Iotsova et al. 1997; Tondravi et al. 1997; Matsuo et al. 2000; Kenner et al. 2004; Wan et al. 2007). In contrast, NFATc1, MITF, and TFE3 affect later aspects of osteoclast differentiation, such as the fusion of the precursor cells to form multinucleated osteoclasts (Steingrimsson et al. 2002; Takayanagi et al. 2002). It is not known however, whether these transcription factors promote lysosomal biogenesis in osteoclasts or whether this process is also under the control of a different signaling pathway and transcription factors. The fact that RANKL signaling increases the ability of already differentiated osteoclasts to resorb bone ECM through a poorly understood mechanism is another reason to ask this question (Lacey et al. 1998; Burgess et al. 1999; Hsu et al. 1999; Lomaga et al. 1999).
TFEB is a member of the MITF/TFE subfamily of basic helix–loop–helix leucine zipper (bHLH-Zip) transcription factors that comprises three other members: MITF, TFE3, and TFEC (Steingrimsson et al. 2004). Overexpression of TFEB in HeLa cells, mouse embryonic fibroblasts (MEFs), or hepatocytes can enhance lysosomal biogenesis and function through the activation of multiple genes encoding lysosomal proteins (Sardiello et al. 2009; Medina et al. 2011; Settembre et al. 2011, 2012). Interestingly, some of these genes are also implicated in mice and humans in ECM acidification and degradation by osteoclasts. Those are ACP5, ATP6V0D1, ATP6V0D2, ATP6V1C1, CTSK, CLCN7, and OSTM1 (Gelb et al. 1996; Kornak et al. 2001; Chalhoub et al. 2003; Lee et al. 2006; Feng et al. 2009). This observation raises the prospect that RANKL could increase the resorptive activity of osteoclasts in part by recruiting TFEB.
Testing this hypothesis in vivo revealed that, in a three-step pathway, RANKL signaling in osteoclasts recruits PKCβ, which phosphorylates TFEB on previously uncharacterized sites. This phosphorylation results in TFEB accumulation in osteoclasts, an increase in expression of lysosomal genes, and, ultimately, an increase in lysosomal biogenesis. Cell-specific loss-of-function experiments verified that both TFEB and PKCβ are required for lysosomal biogenesis and osteoclast function. We further show that this RANKL–PKCβ–TFEB cascade is specific to TFEB and does not affect accumulation of MITF, another member of the MITF/TFE family that is implicated in osteoclast differentiation.
Results
RANKL regulates lysosomal biogenesis in differentiated osteoclasts
To study ex vivo how RANKL favors lysosomal biogenesis in mature osteoclasts, we generated fully differentiated multinucleated osteoclasts by culturing bone marrow-derived monocytes in the presence of M-CSF and RANKL for 6 d (Lacey et al. 1998). Thereafter, RANKL was either withdrawn from or kept in the culture medium for an additional 18 h, and lysosomal biogenesis was assessed by immunofluorescence staining for lysosomal-associated membrane protein 1 (LAMP1), a molecular marker of lysosomes. Both the area covered by lysosomes and the number of lysosomes in each osteoclast were significantly increased in RANKL-treated compared with untreated osteoclasts, whereas the total number of multinucleated tartrate-resistant acid phosphatase (TRAP)-positive osteoclasts remained the same in both groups (Fig. 1A–C). Thus, under the conditions of this cell-based assay, one can dissociate the role of RANKL in osteoclast differentiation from its regulation of lysosomal biogenesis in fully differentiated osteoclasts.
This latter function of RANKL is the result of specific transcriptional events, since, when compared with untreated cells, osteoclasts treated with RANKL for 6 h or 18 h demonstrated a significant increase in the expression of Acp5, Atp6v1c1, Clcn7, Ctsk, and Tcirg1, five lysosomal genes that play a critical role during bone resorption in mice and humans (Fig. 1D; Gelb et al. 1996; Frattini et al. 2000; Kornak et al. 2001; Suter et al. 2001; Feng et al. 2009). We therefore used expression of these five genes as a readout of lysosomal biogenesis in osteoclasts in the remainder of this study.
TFEB regulates the expression of genes implicated in osteoclast function
In order to understand how RANKL signaling in differentiated osteoclasts promotes lysosomal biogenesis, we studied transcription factors that have been proposed to affect this process. We were intrigued by the fact that both overexpression in cells or mice and knockdown in cell lines of the transcription factor TFEB affect expression of Atp6v1c1 and Clcn7 genes just as RANKL treatment of differentiated osteoclasts does (Fig. 1E; Sardiello et al. 2009; Settembre et al. 2011). We therefore asked whether this transcription factor was expressed in osteoclasts, necessary for lysosomal biogenesis in vivo, and regulated transcriptionally or post-transcriptionally by RANKL.
Tfeb expression in osteoclasts was fivefold to 10-fold lower than the one of Mitf and Tfe3, two other members of the MITF/TFE gene family implicated in osteoclasts differentiation (Supplemental Fig. S1A; Steingrimsson et al. 2002), yet Tfeb was more highly expressed in differentiated osteoclasts, as defined by their Ctsk expression, than in any other tissues tested (Fig. 2A).
To determine whether TFEB was involved in lysosomal biogenesis in osteoclasts in cell culture, we performed two different types of assay. First, we generated clones of RAW 264.7 cells, which can be differentiated into osteoclast-like cells upon RANKL treatment (Hsu et al. 1999), stably overexpressing a Flag-tagged version of TFEB (Supplemental Fig. S1B). Cells were then treated with RANKL for 3 d, and gene expression was analyzed. Tfeb overexpression increased RANKL-mediated expression of Acp5, Atp6v1c1, Clcn7, Ctsk, and Tcirg1 (Fig. 2B). Moreover, increasing Tfeb expression in RAW 264.7 cells resulted in the generation of osteoclast-like cells that were more efficient in resorbing a mineralized ECM in an in vitro resorption assay (Fig. 2C). Conversely, we transfected a pool of siRNAs targeting Tfeb in RAW 264.7 cells and verified that these siRNAs efficiently decreased expression of Tfeb but not of other members of the MITF/TFE family (Supplemental Fig. S1C). Osteoclast differentiation was then induced by RANKL addition, and expression of lysosomal genes was analyzed 72 h later. Mirroring what was observed in RAW 264.7 cells overexpressing Tfeb, knockdown of Tfeb in RAW 264.7 cells resulted in a 30%–60% decrease in the ability of RANKL to induce expression of Acp5, Atp6v1c1, Clcn7, Ctsk, and Tcirg1 (Fig. 2D). Bioinformatics analysis of the promoter regions of these genes revealed the presence of at least one TFEB-binding site in each of them (Supplemental Fig. S1D). Chromatin immunoprecipitation (ChIP) assay in RAW 264.7 cells demonstrated that TFEB was binding to sites detected in Atp6v1c1, Clcn7, and Ctsk promoters and that this binding was increased in the presence of RANKL, at least for Atp6v1c1 and Clcn7 (Fig. 2E). Taken together, the results of these gain-of-function and loss-of-function experiments indicate that, in cell culture, TFEB favors lysosomal biogenesis and thereby the resorptive capacity of osteoclasts.
Tfeb is required for normal osteoclast function in vivo
Next, to determine whether TFEB affects lysosomal biogenesis in osteoclasts in vivo, we generated a mouse model lacking Tfeb specifically in osteoclasts (Tfebosc−/−) by crossing Tfebfl/+ mice with Cathepsink-Cre (Ctsk-Cre) mice that delete genes in differentiated osteoclasts specifically and do not demonstrate any bone mass phenotype (Supplemental Fig. S2D; Nakamura et al. 2007). Gene expression analysis showed that Tfeb expression was decreased at least 70% in long bones of Tfebosc−/− mice and by >90% in primary osteoclasts derived from these mice compared with control (Tfebfl/fl) osteoclasts (Supplemental Fig. S2A). Recombination at the Tfeb locus in the Tfebosc−/− mice was detected in bones but not in any of the other tissues tested (Supplemental Fig. S2B). Of note, while the expression of Tfec and Tfe3 was unchanged in Tfeb-deficient osteoclasts, the one of Mitf was increased by ∼40% (Supplemental Fig. S2C). Thus, this mouse model allowed us to study TFEB function in osteoclasts in vivo.
Bone histomorphometric analysis of lumbar vertebrae and microcomputed tomography (μCT) of tibia revealed that bone mass was significantly increased in Tfebosc−/− mice compared with Tfebfl/fl control littermates (Fig. 2F; Supplemental Fig. S2E). However, neither osteoclast number nor surface differed between control and mutant mice; likewise, bone formation remained unchanged, while osteoblast number was marginally decreased (Fig. 2F). The length and shape of Tfebosc−/− long bones were unaffected compared with control mice. However, the presence of cartilage remnants in their mineralized trabeculae and a decrease in serum CTx levels in Tfebosc−/− mice suggested a defect in osteoclast function (Fig. 2F; Supplemental Fig. S2F,G). In view of these findings and given the ability of TFEB to regulate the expression of lysosomal genes implicated in osteoclast function, we tested whether Tfeb inactivation in osteoclasts affects their resorbing capacity by decreasing expression of genes required for lysosome function. Five different lines of evidence supported this hypothesis.
First, while bone marrow cells originating from Tfebosc−/− or control mice differentiated equally well in TRAP-positive osteoclasts in culture, the TRAP staining was consistently weaker in Tfeb−/− than in control osteoclasts (Fig. 2G). This observation suggested that TFEB might be required for the full induction of lysosomal genes in osteoclasts. Second, Tfeb−/− osteoclasts were resorbing bone or a mineralized substrate less efficiently than control osteoclasts, even though the number of TRAP-positive osteoclasts was not decreased in the culture (Fig. 2G,H; Supplemental Fig. S3A). Third, gene expression analysis of Tfebosc−/− and control long bones demonstrated that the expression of all five lysosomal genes implicated in osteoclastic activity—including Acp5, the gene encoding TRAP—was decreased between 40% and 75% when Tfeb was deleted in osteoclasts (Fig. 3A). Fourth, LAMP1 immunofluorescence staining of primary osteoclasts revealed that the number of LAMP1-positive lysosomes was significantly reduced in Tfeb−/− compared with control osteoclasts grown on glass (Fig. 3B). Quantitative analysis of osteoclasts of each genotype demonstrated that the total area covered by lysosomes and the total number of lysosomes in each osteoclast were reduced by half in Tfeb−/− osteoclasts (Fig. 3C,D). Of note, when grown on bone, the LAMP1-positive area within the actin ring was decreased in Tfeb−/− osteoclasts compared with control (Supplemental Fig. S3B). Fifth, acridine orange staining of osteoclasts grown on bone reveals that the intracellular pH and the one underneath the cell were less acidic in Tfeb−/− osteoclasts compared with control (Fig. 3E). Together, these results support the notion that, in vivo, TFEB is needed to maintain osteoclast function by promoting expression of several lysosomal genes.
RANKL induces TFEB protein accumulation in cell culture
The above-described functions of TFEB prompted us to ask whether it was a transcriptional mediator of RANKL regulation of lysosomal biogenesis. While Tfeb expression in primary osteoclasts was unaffected by RANKL treatment, expression of its target genes—Atp6v1c1, Clcn7, Ctsk, and Tcirg1—was markedly increased over the course of osteoclast differentiation (Fig. 4A). Furthermore, cell fractionation studies demonstrated that TFEB protein accumulates in the nucleus of RAW 264.7 cells as early as 4 h after addition of RANKL in the medium (Fig. 4B, top panels). Immunofluorescence staining revealed that the TFEB-Flag protein was localized in the nucleus of osteoclast-like cells following RANKL treatment (Supplemental Fig. S4). Importantly, the cytosolic levels of TFEB were also increased within 2 h of RANKL treatment (Fig. 4B, bottom panels), suggesting that the increase in cellular TFEB levels could be secondary to the stabilization of TFEB. Stabilization of endogenous TFEB protein was also observed following RANKL treatment of primary osteoclast precursors (Fig. 4C). Treatment with cycloheximide, an inhibitor of protein synthesis, decreased TFEB levels in RAW 264.7 cells in the absence of RANKL but not in RANKL-treated cells (Fig. 4D). These results suggest that one mechanism by which RANKL induces TFEB accumulation is by increasing its stability.
PKCβ mediates RANKL-induced lysosomal biogenesis by phosphorylating TFEB on novel sites
In trying to understand how RANKL may increase TFEB stability, we noticed that treatment of RAW 264.7 cells with RANKL consistently caused an electrophoretic shift of TFEB migration whether one looks at nuclear, cytosolic, or total cell extracts (Fig. 4B,E). This suggested that RANKL signaling in osteoclasts triggers a post-translational modification of TFEB. Since TFEB activity is regulated by phosphorylation on at least two serine residues (Settembre et al. 2011), we tested whether RANKL induces phosphorylation of TFEB. For that purpose, RAW 264.7 cells expressing TFEB-Flag were treated with or without RANKL, and cell extracts were incubated in the presence or absence of λ protein phosphatase (λPPase). This treatment resulted in a downward shift of TFEB in electrophoresis and abrogated the electrophoretic shift of TFEB induced by RANKL treatment, indicating that RANKL signaling is responsible of at least one phosphorylation event in TFEB (Fig. 4F).
To identify the kinase recruited by RANKL and phosphorylating TFEB, pharmacological inhibitors of the major kinases acting downstream from RANK, the receptor for RANKL, were applied on RAW 264.7 cells expressing TFEB-Flag for 2 h. Cells were then either untreated or stimulated with RANKL for 18 h, and TFEB accumulation was assessed by Western blot. Among the different kinase inhibitors that were tested, only bisindolylmaleimide I (BIM), a pan-protein kinase C (PKC) inhibitor (Williams et al. 2003), suppressed RANKL-induced TFEB accumulation. This class of kinases has not been previously shown to regulate TFEB.
To identify which members of the PKC family of kinases regulate TFEB accumulation in osteoclasts, we first analyzed the expression of the genes encoding all members of the PKC family in osteoclasts. Prkcb and Prkch, the genes encoding for PKCβ and PKCη, respectively, were by far the most highly expressed in osteoclasts, and their expression increased during differentiation of monocytes into osteoclasts (Fig. 5B). Of note, expression of Prkcb was 600-fold higher in osteoclasts than in osteoblasts (Supplemental Fig. S5A). To determine whether PKCβ and/or PKCη was/were required for RANKL-induced TFEB accumulation, RAW 264.7 cells expressing TFEB-Flag were treated with either a PKCη pseudosubstrate inhibitor (PKCη PS) or a PKCβ-specific inhibitor. While the PKCη PS did not affect RANKL-induced accumulation of TFEB (Fig. 5C), the PKCβ inhibitor was as efficient as BIM in preventing RANKL-induced TFEB accumulation in RAW 264.7 cells (Fig. 5D) and primary osteoclast precursors (Supplemental Fig. S5B). Moreover, that PKCβ was phosphorylated in response to RANKL in primary osteoclast precursors (Fig. 5E; Supplemental Fig. S5C) suggested that RANKL signaling in these cells might activate this kinase. Collectively, these results suggest that PKCβ is required for RANKL-induced TFEB protein accumulation in RAW 264.7 cells. Consistent with this idea, examination of the TFEB amino acid sequence revealed the presence in its C-terminal sequence of three serine residues predicted to be potential PKC phosphorylation sites (Fig. 6A).
To test whether TFEB was a direct target of PKCβ, we performed in vitro kinase assays and incubated GST-TFEB in the presence of purified PKCβ and γ-ATP32. PKCβ phosphorylated a segment of TFEB containing its conserved C-terminal motif (amino acids 293–475) but not a more N-terminal one (amino acids 88–219). Histone H1, used here as a positive control, was efficiently phosphorylated by PKCβ, while GST was not (Fig. 6B). We excluded from these experiments amino acids 1–88 and 220–292 of TFEB, since these two regions do not contain a putative PKC phosphorylation site and, when included, considerably hampered expression of TFEB in bacteria (data not shown). Further deletion analysis revealed that PKCβ phosphorylated TFEB in its last 15 amino acids (Fig. 6C), a region containing five serine residues, all conserved in vertebrate TFEB homologs (Fig. 6A), and site-specific mutagenesis followed by in vitro kinase assays identified S461 and/or S462, S466, and S468 as being phosphorylated by PKCβ in vitro (Fig. 6D,E).
To determine whether the last 15 amino acids of TFEB are required for RANKL-mediated accumulation of TFEB, RAW 264.7 cells stably transfected with either full-length TFEB-Flag or a TFEB construct lacking only these last 15 amino acids (TFEBΔCT) were treated with RANKL or vehicle. RANKL markedly increased (about fourfold) the amount of full-length TFEB but not of TFEBΔCT mutant protein (<1.2-fold) (Fig. 6F,G). Mutation of S461 and S462 or of S465 and S466 to alanine residues also resulted in an inhibition of RANKL-induced TFEB accumulation (Fig. 6H), verifying that these serine residues are required for the stabilization of TFEB in response to RANKL. Moreover, while RANKL treatment prevented the decrease in TFEB accumulation induced by a cycloheximide treatment, it had no effect on the reduction of the TFEBΔCT mutant protein (Fig. 6I). These three experiments indicate that RANKL-induced TFEB stabilization is dependent on the presence of these serine residues. Consistent with this notion, overexpressing full-length TFEB increased expression of the lysosomal genes implicated in bone resorption following RANKL treatment, while overexpression of the TFEBΔCT mutant did not (Fig. 6J). Moreover, while the number and the area of LAMP1-positive lysosomes were increased in osteoclast-like cells when full-length TFEB was overexpressed, they remained unchanged in the cells overexpressing the TFEBΔCT mutant (Fig. 6K,L). Together, these results establish that PKCβ directly phosphorylates TFEB in its last 15 amino acids. Deletion of this sequence abolishes RANKL-induced TFEB stabilization and reduces TFEB's ability to induce lysosomal genes.
PKCβ is required for normal osteoclast function in vivo
An implication of the results presented above is that PKCβ should be required for proper osteoclast function. This was tested in two ways. First, we assessed the effect of a pharmacological inhibition of PKCβ on lysosomal biogenesis in mature osteoclasts in culture. Fully differentiated bone marrow-derived osteoclasts treated for 18 h with the PKCβ inhibitor displayed a significant reduction in the number and the area of lysosomes when compared with vehicle-treated osteoclasts (Fig. 7A,B). To obtain an in vivo confirmation of this function of PKCβ and in the absence of a floxed allele of Prkcb, we transplanted wild-type or Prkcb−/− bone marrow hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) into wild-type irradiated adult mice. Since the osteoclasts derived from a hematopoietic progenitor cell, the osteoclasts of the transplanted mice will derive from the donor cells, while the nonhematopoietic cell types such as osteoblasts will originate from the wild-type host. Genotyping PCR on long bone DNA confirmed the proper engraftment of the Prkcb−/− cells in the recipient animals (Supplemental Fig. S5D). Three months post-transplantation, the bones of these animals were analyzed.
Bone histomorphometric analysis revealed that mice transplanted with PKCβ-deficient bone marrow cells display a significant increase in their bone mass compared with mice transplanted with wild-type bone marrow cells (Fig. 7C). This increase in bone mass was not due to either a defect in osteoclast differentiation, since the number of osteoclasts was not decreased, or to an increase in bone formation, since bone formation markers were slightly reduced in the animals transplanted with PKCβ-deficient bone marrow (Fig. 7C). Thus, we hypothesized that, just as it was the case in Tfebosc−/− mice, the increased bone mass observed in mice transplanted with PKCβ-deficient cells was secondary to a decrease in osteoclast function. That serum CTx levels and expression of several lysosomal genes needed for optimal bone resorption and previously identified as being regulated by RANKL and TFEB in osteoclasts were decreased in Prkcb−/− bones and mice (Fig. 7C,D) is consistent with the hypothesis that PKCβ is required for lysosomal biogenesis in osteoclasts and therefore for bone resorption. In addition, TFEB protein accumulates in wild-type but not in Prkcb−/− primary osteoclast precursors in response to RANKL, while Tfeb mRNA levels remained unchanged (Fig. 7E; Supplemental Fig. S5E).
RANKL favors accumulation of TFEB but not MITF
The motif phosphorylated by PKCβ in the TFEB C-terminal region is conserved among all four members of the MITF/TFE transcription factor family (Fig. 8A), thus raising the question of the specificity of this function of RANKL. Given the fact that MITF is implicated in osteoclast differentiation, we asked whether the RANKL/PKCβ cascade identified here was specific to TFEB.
Consistent with their high degree of sequence conservation, both TFEB and MITF were phosphorylated by PKCβ within their C terminus in vitro (Fig. 8B). MITF protein levels were also marginally increased (20% compared with 300% for TFEB) after treatment of cells with RANKL. However, deletion of the C-terminal motif of MITF did not abrogate the regulation by RANKL as it did on TFEB (Fig. 8C,D). These results suggest that although PKCβ can phosphorylate a conserved C-terminal region in TFEB and MITF in vitro, only TFEB requires this region to accumulate in response to RANKL. Consistent with this notion, overexpression of TFEB in RAW 264.7 cells increased expression of the lysosomal genes implicated in bone resorption following RANKL treatment, while overexpression of the MITF did not (Fig. 8E).
Discussion
Beside its osteoclast differentiation ability, RANKL promotes the resorptive function of osteoclasts once differentiated (Lacey et al. 1998; Burgess et al. 1999; Hsu et al. 1999; Lomaga et al. 1999). Here we show that this occurs in part through a PKCβ–TFEB-dependent pathway and independently of a change in the function of MITF, another member of the same family of transcription factor that is involved in osteoclast differentiation. These findings distinguish between RANKL regulation of osteoclast differentiation and osteoclast functions and provide a molecular basis for this latter action. They do not exclude, however, that transcription factors involved in osteoclast differentiation may also favor lysosomal biogenesis.
Lysosomal biogenesis and bone resorption
In order to resorb the bone ECM, osteoclasts need to generate a resorption lacuna, which is characterized by an acidic pH and the presence of specific proteases, including cathepsin K, a lysosomal cysteine protease responsible for collagen degradation by osteoclasts (Gelb et al. 1996). The generation of the resorption lacuna is achieved through exocytosis and fusion of numerous lysosomes, illustrating how critical the generation and function of lysosomes are for osteoclast function. In support of this notion, the most frequently mutated genes in autosomal recessive human osteopetrosis (i.e., CLCN7, OSTM1, and TCIRG1) are also implicated in the acidification of the lysosomal compartment in osteoclasts (Kornak et al. 2001; Chalhoub et al. 2003; Schinke et al. 2009), and CTSK, the gene encoding for cathepsin K, is mutated in pycnodysostosis, a lysosomal storage disease with defective bone resorption (Gelb et al. 1996).
Role of TFEB in osteoclast function
That mice harboring a cell-specific deletion of TFEB in osteoclasts demonstrated decreased expression of lysosomal genes, a reduced number of lysosomes, and a decreased ability to resorb the bone matrix indicates that TFEB is needed for lysosomal biogenesis in osteoclasts. Moreover, the fact that an osteoclast-specific ablation of Tfeb decreased lysosomal biogenesis in these cells, while mice lacking Mitf or Mitf and one allele of Tfeb did not show any osteoclast dysfunction (Steingrimsson et al. 2002), suggests that MITF and TFEB fulfill distinct roles in osteoclasts. Moreover, forced expression of MITF does not induce lysosomal biogenesis in osteoclast-like cells (Fig. 8E) or HeLa cells (Sardiello et al. 2009). However, expression of Mitf was increased in Tfeb-deficient osteoclasts, suggesting that overexpression of this gene might be partially compensating for the absence of Tfeb in these cells. This possibility, supported by the observation that MITF can directly bind and activate the promoter of Acp5, Ctsk, and Clcn7 in osteoclasts (Motyckova et al. 2001; Meadows et al. 2007), can only be addressed in vivo through the generation of mice lacking both Mitf and Tfeb in osteoclasts only. Unfortunately, no floxed allele of Mitf is currently available to test this hypothesis.
It was recently shown that osteoclast-specific ablation of Ctsk resulted in increased bone formation by osteoblasts (Lotinun et al. 2013), a phenotype that we did not observe. This difference may be due to the fact that Lotinun et al. (2013) used Cd11b-Cre and Mx1-Cre, while we used Ctsk-Cre. In addition, in their case, the reduction in Ctsk expression in osteoclasts approached 95%, while in our case, it did not go below 60%.
Regulation of TFEB by PKCβ
Multiple assays indicated that RANKL induction of lysosomal biogenesis in osteoclasts depends on their expression of Tfeb. For this purpose, RANKL recruits PKCβ, which phosphorylates TFEB in its C-terminal sequence on at least three serine residues. This sequence is conserved in all four vertebrate members of the MITF/TFE family (Fig. 8A) but is absent from its Caenorhabditis elegans and Drosophila melanogaster homologs, an observation suggesting that this motif is implicated in vertebrate-specific functions of these factors. Remarkably, this C-terminal motif has not been associated with any TFEB function previously.
Although both TFEB and MITF were phosphorylated in vitro by PKCβ, only TFEB was induced at the protein level by RANKL. This result suggests that the RANKL–PKCβ–TFEB cascade is specific to TFEB function. Of note, phosphorylation of MITF by p90 Rsk-1 in the same C-terminal region reduced its stability in response to c-Kit signaling in melanoma cells (Wu et al. 2000), suggesting that this conserved motif may have multiple functions in the MITF/TFE factors and that these functions may be either cell type- or signal-specific. Consistent with this idea, several unbiased mass spectrometry studies performed in various cell types and tissues have found that TFEB, MITF, and TFE3 can be phosphorylated on one or several serine residues contained in the C-terminal motif (Beausoleil et al. 2004; Huttlin et al. 2010; Rigbolt et al. 2011; Yu et al. 2011; Goswami et al. 2012). Finally, our findings do not exclude, as shown previously, that MITF and TFE3 are regulated by RANKL and/or M-CSF during osteoclast differentiation but through PKCβ-independent pathways (Weilbaecher et al. 2001; Meadows et al. 2007).
Although members of the PKC family have been proposed to be involved in bone resorption by osteoclasts ex vivo (Lee et al. 2003; Williams et al. 2003; Sorensen et al. 2010), the specific involvement of PKCβ in this process has never been tested in vivo. Our data showing that PKCβ regulation of osteoclast function occurs in part by phosphorylating TFEB and promoting its accumulation (Fig. 8F) are also consistent with the fact that treatment of mice with enzastaurin, a PKCβ inhibitor, can reduce osteoclastic bone destruction caused by metastatic breast cancer cells (Dudek et al. 2008). Interestingly, Cremasco et al. (2012) have shown that another PKC, PKCδ, was also required for osteoclast function in vivo because it promotes cathepsin K exocytosis. Together, these and our findings suggest that multiple members of the PKC family might contribute nonredundantly to the resorptive function of osteoclasts.
Post-translational modification of TFEB and its regulation by RANKL
TFEB is known to be phosphorylated by many kinases. For instance, it is phosphorylated by ERK or mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR) on S142 and/or S211 in the presence of nutrients, and these phosphorylation events prevent TFEB from entering the nucleus (Settembre et al. 2011, 2012; Martina et al. 2012; Roczniak-Ferguson et al. 2012). Likewise, mTOR is also implicated in TFEB cytosolic–nuclear transport through a different mechanism (Pena-Llopis et al. 2011). In contrast, our results point toward a novel post-translational regulation of TFEB by RANKL in osteoclasts. Indeed, RANKL treatment in RAW 264.7 cells does not specifically promote TFEB nuclear accumulation but instead globally increases TFEB protein levels in the cells. Moreover, pharmacological inhibition of ERK or mTOR has no significant effect on RANKL-dependent TFEB accumulation in osteoclasts (Fig. 5A).
To be fully activated, classical PKCs, such as PKCβ, require diacylglycerol (DAG), a second messenger that is generated through the hydrolysis of PI(4,5)P2 by phospholipase C (PLC). It was shown that PLCγ2, acting downstream from RANK, regulates both osteoclast differentiation in an NFATc1-dependent manner (Mao et al. 2006) and osteoclast function independently of NFATc1 (Epple et al. 2008). Thus, one can hypothesize that generation of DAG by PLCγ2 could be a signal triggering PKCβ activation downstream from RANK. In conclusion, our results support the existence of a distinct pathway in mature osteoclasts regulating lysosomal biogenesis downstream from RANK and implicating the stabilization of TFEB in a PKCβ-dependent manner (Fig. 8F).
Materials and methods
Mouse models
Generation of Tfebfl/fl (C57BL/6) mice was reported previously (Settembre et al. 2012). To generate Tfeb osteoclast-specific knockout mice, Tfebfl/fl mice were crossed with Ctsk-Cre mice (C57BL/6), which express the Cre recombinase under the control of the osteoclast-specific Cathepsin K locus (Nakamura et al. 2007). The obtained progeny, Tfebfl/+;Ctsk-Cre and Tfebfl/+, were intercrossed to obtain controls (Tfebfl/fl) and Tfeb osteoclast knockout (Tfebfl/fl;Ctsk-Cre) animals. To generate mice lacking PKCβ in osteoclasts, wild-type or Prkcb−/− (BALB/c) bone marrow cells (Su et al. 2002) were transplanted (2 × 106 cells per mouse) via tail vein injection into 5-wk-old irradiated wild-type (BALB/c) recipient mice. All of the transplanted mice survived, and bone histological analysis was performed 12 wk later.
Reagents
PD98059, SB203580, SB202190, and SP600125 were obtained from Tocris Bioscience; cyclohexamide, rapamycin, and LY294002 were obtained from Sigma Aldrich; and BIM, PKCη pseudosubstrate, and PKCβ inhibitor were obtained from EMD Millipore. TFEB monoclonal antibody was from MyBiosource. Flag and β-actin antibodies were from Sigma Aldrich, and PKCβ antibodies were from Santa Cruz Biotechnology. Tubulin and Lamin A/C antibodies were obtained from BD Bioscience. λPPase and P-PKCβ (T641) antibody were obtained from New England Biolabs. Recombinant active PKCβ and LAMP1 antibody were obtained from Abcam.
Gene expression analysis
Real-time quantitative PCR (qPCR) was performed on DNaseI-treated cell or bone total RNA converted to cDNA by MMLV reverse transcriptase using Taq SYBR Green Supermix (Bio-Rad) with ROX on an MX3000 instrument; ribosomal S18 and Hprt were used as internal references. ChIP assays were performed on nuclear extracts of RAW 264.7 cells expressing an empty vector or TFEB-Flag protein using anti-Flag antibodies according to previously described methods (Lacombe et al. 2013). Sequences of the primers used for each gene and ChIP assays are provided in Supplemental Table 1.
Bone histomorphometry
Bone histomorphometry analysis on lumbar vertebrae embedded in methyl methacrylate resin was performed as previously described (Chappard et al. 1987) using the Osteomeasure analysis system (Osteometrics). Von Kossa/Van Gieson staining was performed for bone volume over tissue volume (BV/TV) measurement. Bone formation rate parameters were analyzed by the calcein double-labeling method. For the analysis of osteoblast and osteoclast, sections were stained with toluidine blue and TRAP, respectively.
Plasmid constructs
GST-TFEB and GST-MITF deletion constructs were generated by PCR amplification and cloning into the EcoRI and SalI site of pGEX4T3 vector. TFEB-3XFlag construct (TFEB-Flag) was described previously (Sardiello et al. 2009). MITF-Flag, MITFΔCT-Flag, and TFEBΔCT-Flag were cloned in the same mammalian expression vector (p3XFlag-CMV-14; Sigma).
Cell culture, transfection, and immunofluorescence
RAW 264.7 cells were cultured according to the conditions provided by the supplier (American Type Culture Collection). siRNA knockdown in RAW 264.7 cells was achieved by transfection with siRNA pools (On-target, Dharmacon) using Lipofectamin LTX as previously described (Carralot et al. 2009). Stable transfectants were generated by electroporating linearized vectors into RAW 264.7 cells followed by selection with G418 (Invitrogen) (Ferron et al. 2011). Osteoclast-like cells were obtained by differentiating RAW 264.7 stable transfectants in the presence of RANKL (30 ng/mL). Primary osteoclast precursors (monocytes) were obtained by culturing bone marrow cells with M-CSF containing L-929 cell supernatant (10%) for 6 d. Primary osteoclasts were obtained by treating osteoclast precursors with RANKL (30 ng/mL) and M-CSF (10 ng/mL) for the indicated times. Multinucleated osteoclasts were identified by TRAP staining, and pit resorption assay was performed using Osteo Assay Stripwell Plate (Corning) or bovine bone slices stained with WGA-lectin-HRP. Mouse primary osteoblasts were isolated as previously described (Ducy et al. 1997). For immunofluorescence experiments, stable transfectants or primary osteoclasts were plated on glass coverslips or on bovine bone slices fixed in 4% paraformaldehyde and labeled with a 1:100 dilution of anti-LAMP1 antibody (Abcam) before being stained with Alexa Fluor 488- or 637-conjugated donkey anti-rabbit secondary antibody (Molecular Probes). Nuclei were stained with DAPI. ImageJ software was used to quantify the number of lysosomes normalized to the number of nuclei and the area covered by each osteoclast. Actin was stained with Phalloidin-Alexa Fluor 555. Cells were imaged using a fluorescent or confocal microscope. To assess intracellular pH, osteoclasts differentiated on bone slices were incubated in MEM buffered at pH 7.4 with 20 mM HEPES and containing 5 μg/mL acridine orange (Invitrogen) for 15 min at 37°C, washed, and imaged using a confocal microscope (excitation, 488 nm; emission, 500–550 nm [green form] and 570–620 nm [red/orange acidic form]).
Kinase inhibitor treatment
RAW 264.7 cells stably transfected with TFEB-Flag construct were pretreated for 1 h with vehicle (DMSO) or the following inhibitors: 10 μM PD98059, 5 μM SB203580, 2 μM SB202190, 2 μM SP600125, 20 nM rapamycin, 20 μM LY294002, 10–25 μM BIM, 5–50 μM PKCη pseudosubstrate, or 10 μM PKCβ inhibitor.
Cell fractionation and λPPase assay
To obtain cytosolic and nuclear extracts, cells were suspended in hypotonic buffer (10 mM Tris at pH 7.9, 10 mM KCl, 0.1 mM EDTA, 0.1 mM EGTA, 20 mM NaF, 1 mM sodium pyrophosphate, 20 mM β-glycerophosphate, 1 mM sodium orthovanadate, 1 mM PMSF, 1× protease inhibitor cocktail [Roche]). After 15-min incubations on ice, cells were lysed by adding NP-40 (0.625% final). Nuclei were collected by centrifugation, and the cytosolic fraction (i.e., supernatant) was saved. The pellet was resuspended in hypertonic buffer (20 mM Tris at pH 7.9, 400 mM NaCl, 1 mM EDTA, 1 mM EGTA, 20 mM NaF, 1 mM sodium pyrophosphate, 20 mM β-glycerophosphate, 1 mM sodium orthovanadate, 1 mM PMSF, 1× protease inhibitor cocktail), and nuclear proteins were extracted by vortexing for 30 min at 4°C followed by centrifugation. In some experiments, total cell extracts were obtained by lysing the cells with immunoprecipitation BF (20 mM Tris at pH 7.4, 150 mM NaCl, 1% NP-40, 2 mM EDTA, 1 mM NaF, 1 mM sodium pyrophosphate, 2.5 mM β-glycerophosphate, 1 mM sodium orthovanadate, 1 mM PMSF 1× protease inhibitor cocktail) and sonicating the extract three times for 5 sec at 25% intensity. For the λPPase treatment, total cell extracts were prepared using the same method, except that NaF, sodium pyrophosphate, β-glycerophosphate, and sodium orthovanadate were not included in the lysis buffer. Ten milligrams of extract were diluted in 1× phosphatase buffer (50 mM HEPES at pH 7.5, 100 mM NaCl, 2 mM DTT, 0.01% Brij 35, 1 mM MnCl2) and treated or not with 800 U of λPPase for 20 min at 30°C. The reaction was stopped by adding 3× SDS loading buffer and Flag protein detected by standard Western blotting method.
Kinase assay
Recombinant proteins (10 μg each), prepared as previously described (Ferron et al. 2010), were incubated for 30 min at 30°C with recombinant PKCβ kinase (0.1 μg), 10 μM ATP, and 5 μCi of [γ32P]ATP in 1× kinase buffer (20 mM HEPES at pH 7.5, 10 mM MgCl2, 2 mM CaCl2). The reaction was stopped by the addition of Laemmli buffer, and proteins were resolved on SDS-PAGE gel. Phosphorylation of proteins was detected by exposing the gel to a radiographic film.
Statistics
Results are given as means ± standard error of the mean (SEM). Statistical analyses were performed using unpaired, two-tailed Student's t-test. In all figures, single asterisk or hashmark (* or #) indicates P < 0.05, double asterisks or hashmarks (** or ##) indicate P < 0.01, triple asterisk or hashmarks (*** or ###) indicate P < 0.001, and NS indicates not significant.
Acknowledgments
We are grateful to S. Khim for collecting the PKCβ−/− bones; B. Zhou, Z. Zhang, and Dr. X.E. Guo for the μCT analysis; Dr. W. Zou for providing bovine bone slices; Dr. R. De Cegli for bioinformatic analyses; Dr. T. Swayne for microscopy support; and M. Pata and Dr. J. Vacher for technical advices on immunofluorescence. We thank Dr. S. Teitelbaum and Dr. P. Ducy for their critical reading of the manuscript. This work was supported by funding from the U.S. National Institutes of Health (M.F., A.B., and G.K.), an American and Canadian Diabetes Associations post-doctoral fellowship (M.F.), the Italian Telethon Foundation (C.S. and A.B), the Beyond Batten Disease Foundation (A.B.), the European Research Council (A.B.), and the March of Dimes (A.B).
Footnotes
Supplemental material is available for this article.
Article published online ahead of print. Article and publication date are online at http://www.genesdev.org/cgi/doi/10.1101/gad.213827.113.
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