| ALP | Alkaline phosphatase |
| BMPs | Bone morphogenetic proteins |
| BSA | Bovine serum albumin |
| CHX | Cycloheximide |
| COL1 | Collagen I |
| CRISPR | Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats |
| DSB | Double-strand break |
| DUBs | Deubiquitinating enzymes |
| FGF | Fibroblast growth factor |
| HEK293 | human embryonic kidney cells |
| hMSCs | human Mesenchymal stem cells |
| IP | Immunoprecipitation |
| KRT14 | Keratin 14 |
| MSX1 | Msh homeobox 1 |
| OCN | Osteocalcin |
| OSX | Osterix |
| PAGE | Polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis |
| PAM | Protospacer adjacent motif |
| PTM | post-translational modification, |
| RUNX2 | Runt-related transcription factor 2 |
| SDS | Sodium dodecyl sulfate |
| sgRNA | Single guide RNA |
| shRNA | Short hairpin RNA |
| TGFβ | Transforming growth factor β |
| T7E1 | T7 Endonuclease I |
| UCH | Ubiquitin carboxyl-terminal hydrolase |
| USP | Ubiquitin-specific protease |