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08; p = .75). Interestingly oil red O staining of bone cryosections at most revealed a slight decrease of adiposity in bone marrow of Brtl mice (Supporting Information Fig. S3 and Supporting Information Methods). Brtl osteoblasts are characterized by partial intracellular retention http://www.selleckchem.com/products/3-deazaneplanocin-a-dznep.html of mutant collagen causing endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress activation [27]. Recently, it has been reported that mutant collagen with triple helical defects can activate autophagy [28]. Impairment of autophagy has also been related to compromised adipocyte differentiation in knockout murine models [29, 30]. Thus, we investigated the presence of ER stress in mutant MSCs cultured in osteogenic medium. The expression of HSP47, a well-known collagen-specific ER chaperone [31], was significantly increased in Brtl cells (Fig. 3A, 3B). Confocal analysis of the intracellular distribution of HSP47 by immunofluorescence showed that HSP47 and type I procollagen colocalized in the ER in both WT and mutant differentiated MSCs, but in mutant cells, type I procollagen appeared more prone to accumulate in aggregates within the cells (Fig. 3C). Finally, we investigated several characteristic autophagic players: BECN1, ATG7, and LC3-II, by Western blot. Their expression was increased in Brtl MSCs following in vitro osteoblastic differentiation (Fig. 4A, 4B). Further support for autophagy activation in differentiated Brtl osteoblastic cells is provided by the increase of transcript for the lysosomal http://www.selleckchem.com/products/erastin.html enzyme CtsK, specifically involved in collagen degradation (Fig. 4C, Supporting Information Methods and Supporting Information Fig. S4). Autophagy is often linked to apoptosis so we also checked the protein expression level of the classic apoptotic markers CASP3 and PARP1 by Western blot. No difference was detected between mutant MSCs and WT following osteoblastic differentiation (Supporting Information Fig. S5). The proteasomal inhibitor Btz, widely used for multiple myeloma treatment, has recently been demonstrated to stimulate osteogenic differentiation in murine and human MSCs, at least in part by stabilizing RUNX2 protein [17]. To determine whether mutant MSCs respond to Btz in vitro, MSC cultures were established from Brtl and WT mice treated for three weeks by i.p. injection of Btz. No difference was detected in the number http://www.selleck.cn/products/pf-06463922.html of CFU-F between MSCs from treated and untreated animals (WT 19.46 �� 1.69; Brtl 20.20 �� 2.06; Brtl + Btz 19.40 �� 2.06; p > .90). Also, when MSCs were cultured under adipogenic conditions, there was no difference in the number of adipocyte colonies (WT 1.57 �� 0.18; Brtl 2.21 �� 0.22; Brtl + Btz 2.22 �� 0.24; F = 2.84; p = .06). Interestingly, under osteogenic conditions, the Btz treatment increased the mineralized area in vitro, normalizing the mutant samples to WT level (WT 3.53% �� 0.44%; Brtl 2.02% �� 0.30%; Brtl + Btz 4.40% �� 0.66%; p