CD109 plays a role in osteoclastogenesis.. Mus musculus

The primary aim of this project was to identify novel factors, in particular the cell-surface protein CD109, which regulate osteoclastogenesis. Microarray analysis was performed comparing two pre-osteoclast cell lines generated from the RAW 264.7 osteoclast cell line: one that has the capacity to fuse forming large multinucleated cells and one that does not fuse. It was found that CD109 was up-regulated by > 17-fold in the osteoclast forming cell line when compared to the cell line that does not fuse. Overall design: H10 (osteoclastogenic cell line) and C8 (non osteoclastogenic cell line) cells were plated for two days in 60 mm tissue culture dishes at a density of 0.5 x 10^6 in a culture medium consisting of 8 ml of Dulbecco's Modified Eagle Medium (DMEM, Life Technologies, Grand Island, NY, USA) supplemented with 10% Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) and 10% antibiotics (164 IU/mL of penicillin G, 50 mg/ml of gentamicin, and 0.25 mg/ml of fungizone) as well as purified recombinant RANKL (60ng/ml). Following two days of culture, total RNA was extracted from the H10 and C8 cells (Qiagen RNeasy Minikit, Germantown, MD, USA) and the concentration of extracted RNA was measured (using a nanodrop method). Experiment was done in triplicates