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Maternal high protein-diet programs impairment of offspring’s bone mass through miR-24-1-5p mediated targeting of SMAD5 in osteoblasts

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Maternal nutrition is crucial for the offspring’s skeleton development and the onset of osteoporosis later in life. While maternal low protein diet has been shown to regulate bone mass negatively, the effect of a high protein diet (HP) remains unexplored. Here, we found that C57BL/6 mice fed with HP delivered offspring with decreased skeletal mineralization at birth and reduced bone mass throughout their life due to a decline in their osteoblast maturation. A small RNA sequencing study revealed that miR-24-1-5p was highly upregulated in HP group osteoblasts. Target prediction and validation studies identified SMAD-5 as a direct target of miR-24-1-5p. Furthermore, mimic and inhibitor studies showed a negative correlation between miR-24-1-5p expression and osteoblast function. Moreover, ex vivo inhibition of miR-24-1-5p reversed the reduced maturation and SMAD-5 expression in the HP group osteoblasts. Together, we show that maternal HP diminishes the bone mass of the offspring through miR-24-1-5p.

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Acknowledgements

We thank Dr. Naibedya Chattopadhyay (CSIR-Central Drug Research Institute, Lucknow, India) for the µ-CT facility and Genotypic Technology Private Ltd. (Bangalore, India) for the small RNA sequencing and analysis.

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This study was supported by Department of Biotechnology, Government of India. Funding from the Science and Engineering Research Board (SERB), Government of India (KS), and research fellowship grants from the Department of Science and Technology (GE) are also acknowledged.

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  1. Department of Molecular Nutrition, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India

    Govindraj Ellur, Md. Touseef Khan & Kunal Sharan

  2. Academy of Scientific and Innovative Research (AcSIR), Ghaziabad, 201002, India

    Govindraj Ellur, Md. Touseef Khan & Kunal Sharan

  3. Department of Biochemistry, CSIR-Central Food Technological Research Institute, Mysore, India

    Shinde Vijay Sukhdeo

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Ellur, G., Sukhdeo, S.V., Khan, M.T. et al. Maternal high protein-diet programs impairment of offspring’s bone mass through miR-24-1-5p mediated targeting of SMAD5 in osteoblasts. Cell. Mol. Life Sci. 78, 1729–1744 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00018-020-03608-6

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