scholarly journals An Improved Animal Model of Multiple Myeloma Bone Disease

Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (17) ◽  
pp. 4277
Author(s):  
Syed Hassan Mehdi ◽  
Carol A Morris ◽  
Jung Ae Lee ◽  
Donghoon Yoon

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a plasma cell malignancy that causes an accumulation of terminally differentiated monoclonal plasma cells in the bone marrow, accompanied by multiple myeloma bone disease (MMBD). MM animal models have been developed and enable to interrogate the mechanism of MM tumorigenesis. However, these models demonstrate little or no evidence of MMBD. We try to establish the MMBD model with severe bone lesions and easily accessible MM progression. 1 × 106 luciferase-expressing 5TGM1 cells were injected into 8–12 week-old NOD SCID gamma mouse (NSG) and C57BL/KaLwRij mouse via the tail vein. Myeloma progression was assessed weekly via in vivo bioluminescence (BL) imaging using IVIS-200. The spine and femur/tibia were extracted and scanned by the micro-computer tomography for bone histo-morphometric analyses at the postmortem. The median survivals were 56 days in NSG while 44.5 days in C57BL/KaLwRij agreed with the BL imaging results. Histomorphic and DEXA analyses demonstrated that NSG mice have severe bone resorption that occurred at the lumbar spine but no significance at the femur compared to C57BL/KaLwRij mice. Based on these, we conclude that the systemic 5TGM1 injected NSG mouse slowly progresses myeloma and develops more severe MMBD than the C57BL/KaLwRij model.

Blood ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 112 (11) ◽  
pp. 844-844
Author(s):  
Angela Pennisi ◽  
Wen Ling ◽  
Xin Li ◽  
Jianmei Chen ◽  
Sharmin Khan ◽  
...  

Abstract Induction of osteolytic bone lesions in myeloma (MM) is caused by an uncoupling of osteoclastic bone resorption and osteoblastic bone formation. Recent studies indicate that in addition to role in cell adhesion, repulsion and neovascularization, bidirectional signaling between the cell surface molecules EphrinB2 and EphB4 also mediates the coupling between osteoblasts and osteoblasts. While mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) and osteoblasts express the ligand EphrinB2 land its receptor, EphB4, osteoclasts and their precursors mainly express EphrinB2. Forward signaling in MSCs promotes osteogenic differentiation and reverse signaling in osteoclast precursors inhibits their differentiation. The aims of the study were to investigate whether the EphrinB2/Eph4 axis is dysregulated in MM osteoprogenitors and whether activation of this axis in myelomatous bone by EphrinB2-Fc or EphB4-Fc affects MM bone disease, angiogenesis and tumor growth. MSCs were generated from bone marrow of healthy donors (n=5) and patients with MM (n=13). Gene expression was determined by qRT-PCR. MSCs from MM patients had reduced expression of EphrinB2 (EFNB2) by 61±6% (p<0.02) and EphB4 by 60±10% (p<0.02) than expression levels of these molecules in MSCs from healthy donors. Expression of other EFN and EPH B genes were detected and similarly expressed in patients and donors MSCs. Differentiation of MSCs from MM patients into osteoblasts resulted in upregulation of EFNB2 and downregulation of EPHB4. MM cell lines and primary MM plasma cells expressed low to undetectable levels of this family of genes. We exploited our SCID-hu system for primary MM to study the consequences of activation of forward signaling by EphrinB2-Fc or reverse signaling by EphB4-Fc on MM-induced bone disease and MM growth. Twelve SCID-hu mice were engrafted with MM cells from a patient with active MM. Upon detection of MM growth (by human Ig ELISA) and bone disease (radiographically), hosts were locally treated with Fc (control), EphrinB2-Fc or EPHB4 (4 mice/group) for 4 weeks using Alzet pump that continually released 0.11 μg/hour of each compound. While in Fc-treated hosts BMD of the implanted bone was reduced by 8±3% from pretreatment levels, it was increased by EphrinB2-Fc and EPhB4-Fc by 15±8% (p<0.03 vs. Fc) and 2±1% (p<0.02 vs. Fc) from pretreatment levels, respectively. At experiment’s end levels of human Ig in mice sera were increased by 308±99% and 244±86% from pretreatment levels in Fc- and EphrinB2- Fc groups, respectively, while were reduced by 92±1% (p<0.02 vs. Fc) from pretreatment levels in EphB4-Fc group. In myelomatous bones, EphB4-Fc and EphrinB2-Fc increased the numbers of osteoblasts by >3 folds (p<0.004) while EphB4-Fc, but not EphrinB2-Fc, reduced osteoclast numbers by 5 folds (p<0.01 vs. Fc group). The numbers of CD34-reactive neovessels were reduced by 2 folds following treatment with EphB4-Fc (p<0.03) and were increased by 2.5 folds following treatment with EphrinB2-Fc (p<0.05). Our study suggests that downregulation of EphrinB2 and EhpB4 in MSCs from MM patients contributes to their impaired osteogenic differentiation and that treatment with EphrinB2-Fc or EphB4-Fc helps restore coupling of bone remodeling in myelomatous bones. The results also indicate that EphB4-Fc treatment is an effective approach to simultaneously inhibit MM and its associated bone disease.


2021 ◽  
Vol 12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Syed Hassan Mehdi ◽  
Sana Nafees ◽  
Syed Jafar Mehdi ◽  
Carol A. Morris ◽  
Ladan Mashouri ◽  
...  

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a clonal B-cell disorder characterized by the proliferation of malignant plasma cells (PCs) in the bone marrow, the presence of monoclonal serum immunoglobulin, and osteolytic lesions. It is the second most common hematological malignancy and considered an incurable disease despite significant treatment improvements. MM bone disease (MMBD) is defined as the presence of one or more osteolytic bone lesions or diffused osteoporosis with compression fracture attributable to the underlying clonal PC disorder. MMBD causes severe morbidity and increases mortality. Cumulative evidence shows that the interaction of MM cells and bone microenvironment plays a significant role in MM progression, suggesting that these interactions may be good targets for therapy. MM animal models have been developed and studied in various aspects of MM tumorigenesis. In particular, MMBD has been studied in various models, and each model has unique features. As the general features of MM animal models have been reviewed elsewhere, the current review will focus on the features of MMBD animal models.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Houfu Leng ◽  
Hanlin Zhang ◽  
Linsen Li ◽  
Shuhao Zhang ◽  
Yanping Wang ◽  
...  

AbstractMultiple myeloma (MM) is a fatal hematological malignancy, where the majority of patients are diagnosed with, or develop, destructive and debilitating osteolytic bone lesions. Current treatments for MM bone disease such as the bisphosphonate zoledronic acid can result in deleterious side effects at high doses. In this study, eliglustat, an FDA approved glycosphingolipid inhibitor, was shown to reduce MM bone disease in preclinical models of MM. Mechanistically, eliglustat alters the lipid composition and plasma membrane fluidity and acts as an autophagy flux inhibitor in bone-resorbing osteoclasts (OC). Autophagic degradation of the signaling molecule TRAF3 is key step in OC differentiation; this was prevented by eliglustat in OC precursors. In addition, eliglustat works depend on TRAF3 in vivo. Furthermore, the combination of eliglustat and zoledronic acid was found to have an additive effect to reduce MM bone disease, suggesting the potential for combination therapies that would allow for drug dose reductions. Taken together, this project identifies a novel mechanism in which glycosphingolipid inhibition reduces osteoclastogenesis via autophagy and highlights the translational potential of eliglustat for the treatment of bone loss disorders such as MM.One Sentence SummaryTranslational use of eliglustat as an autophagy inhibitor to limit bone lesions in multiple myeloma.


2020 ◽  
Vol 92 (7) ◽  
pp. 85-89
Author(s):  
L. P. Mendeleeva ◽  
I. G. Rekhtina ◽  
A. M. Kovrigina ◽  
I. E. Kostina ◽  
V. A. Khyshova ◽  
...  

Our case demonstrates severe bone disease in primary AL-amyloidosis without concomitant multiple myeloma. A 30-year-old man had spontaneous vertebral fracture Th8. A computed tomography scan suggested multiple foci of lesions in all the bones. In bone marrow and resected rib werent detected any tumor cells. After 15 years from the beginning of the disease, nephrotic syndrome developed. Based on the kidney biopsy, AL-amyloidosis was confirmed. Amyloid was also detected in the bowel and bone marrow. On the indirect signs (thickening of the interventricular septum 16 mm and increased NT-proBNP 2200 pg/ml), a cardial involvement was confirmed. In the bone marrow (from three sites) was found 2.85% clonal plasma cells with immunophenotype СD138+, СD38dim, СD19-, СD117+, СD81-, СD27-, СD56-. FISH method revealed polysomy 5,9,15 in 3% of the nuclei. Serum free light chain Kappa 575 mg/l (/44.9) was detected. Multiple foci of destruction with increased metabolic activity (SUVmax 3.6) were visualized on PET-CT, and an surgical intervention biopsy was performed from two foci. The number of plasma cells from the destruction foci was 2.5%, and massive amyloid deposition was detected. On CT scan foci of lesions differed from bone lesions at multiple myeloma. Bone fragments of point and linear type (button sequestration) were visualized in most of the destruction foci. The content of the lesion was low density. There was no extraossal spread from large zones of destruction. There was also spontaneous scarring of the some lesions (without therapy). Thus, the diagnosis of multiple myeloma was excluded on the basis based on x-ray signs, of the duration of osteodestructive syndrome (15 years), the absence of plasma infiltration in the bone marrow, including from foci of bone destruction by open biopsy. This observation proves the possibility of damage to the skeleton due to amyloid deposition and justifies the need to include AL-amyloidosis in the spectrum of differential diagnosis of diseases that occur with osteodestructive syndrome.


Blood ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 110 (11) ◽  
pp. 3518-3518
Author(s):  
Martin Kaiser ◽  
Maren Mieth ◽  
Peter Liebisch ◽  
Susanne Rötzer ◽  
Christian Jakob ◽  
...  

Abstract Objectives: Lytic bone disease is a hallmark of multiple myeloma (MM) and is caused by osteoclast activation and osteoblast inhibition. Secretion of Dickkopf (DKK)-1 by myeloma cells was reported to cause inhibition of osteoblast precursors. DKK-1 is an inhibitor of the Wnt/β-catenin signaling, which is a critical signaling pathway for the differentiation of mesenchymal stem cells into osteoblasts. So far there is no study showing a significant difference in serum DKK-1 levels in MM patients with or without lytic bone lesions. Methods: DKK-1 serum levels were quantified in 184 previously untreated MM patients and 33 MGUS patients by ELISA, using a monoclonal anti-DKK-1 antibody. For the evaluation of bone disease, skeletal X-rays were performed. Results: Serum DKK-1 was elevated in MM as compared to MGUS (mean 11,963 pg/mL versus 1993 pg/mL, P < 0.05). Serum DKK-1 levels significantly correlated with myeloma stage according to Durie and Salmon (mean 2223 pg/mL versus 15,209 pg/mL in stage I and II/III, respectively; P = 0.005). Importantly, myeloma patients without lytic lesions in conventional radiography had significantly lower DKK-1 levels than patients with lytic bone disease (mean 3114 pg/mL versus 17,915 pg/mL; P = 0.003). Of interest, serum DKK-1 correlated with the number of bone lesions (0 vs. 1–3 vs. >3 lesions: mean 3114 pg/mL vs. 3559 pg/mL vs. 24,068 pg/mL; P = 0.002). Conclusion: This is the largest study of DKK-1 serum levels in multiple myeloma patients and data show for the first time a correlation between DKK-1 serum concentration and the amount of lytic bone disease, suggesting that DKK1 is an important factor for the extent of bone disease and supporting the hypothesis of DKK-1 as a therapeutic target in myeloma bone disease.


Cancers ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (21) ◽  
pp. 5258
Author(s):  
Sara Reis Moura ◽  
Hugo Abreu ◽  
Carla Cunha ◽  
Cláudia Ribeiro-Machado ◽  
Carla Oliveira ◽  
...  

Multiple myeloma (MM) is the second most frequent hematological disease and can cause skeletal osteolytic lesions. This study aims to evaluate the expression of circulating microRNAs (miRNAs) in MM patients and to correlate those levels with clinicopathological features, including bone lesions. A panel of miRNAs associated with MM onset and progression, or with bone remodeling, was analyzed in the plasma of 82 subjects (47 MM patients; 35 healthy controls). Results show that miR-16-5p, miR-20a-5p, and miR-21-5p are differently expressed between MM patients and healthy controls. Receiver operating characteristic analyses indicate that their combined expression has potential as a molecular marker (Area Under the Curve, AUC of 0.8249). Furthermore, significant correlations were found between the analyzed miRNAs and disease stage, treatment, β2 microglobulin, serum albumin and creatinine levels, but not with calcium levels or genetic alterations. In this cohort, 65.96% of MM patients had bone lesions, the majority of which were in the vertebrae. Additionally, miR-29c-3p was decreased in patients with osteolytic lesions compared with patients without bone disease. Interestingly, circulating levels of miR-29b-3p correlated with cervical and thoracic vertebral lesions, while miR-195-5p correlated with thoracic lesions. Our findings suggest circulating miRNAs can be promising biomarkers for MM diagnosis and that their levels correlate with myeloma bone disease and osteolytic lesions.


2021 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 2375
Author(s):  
Aristea-Maria Papanota ◽  
Paraskevi Karousi ◽  
Christos K. Kontos ◽  
Ioannis Ntanasis-Stathopoulos ◽  
Andreas Scorilas ◽  
...  

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a common hematological malignancy arising from terminally differentiated plasma cells. In the majority of cases, symptomatic disease is characterized by the presence of bone disease. Multiple myeloma bone disease (MMBD) is a result of an imbalance in the bone-remodeling process that leads to increased osteoclast activity and decreased osteoblast activity. The molecular background of MMBD appears intriguingly complex, as several signaling pathways and cell-to-cell interactions are implicated in the pathophysiology of MMBD. MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are small non-coding RNA molecules that regulate the expression of their target mRNAs. Numerous miRNAs have been witnessed to be involved in cancer and hematological malignancies and their role has been characterized either as oncogenic or oncosuppressive. Recently, scientific research turned towards miRNAs as regulators of MMBD. Scientific data support that miRNAs finely regulate the majority of the signaling pathways implicated in MMBD. In this review, we provide concise information regarding the molecular pathways with a significant role in MMBD and the miRNAs implicated in their regulation. Moreover, we discuss their utility as molecular biomarkers and highlight the putative usage of miRNAs as novel molecular targets for targeted therapy in MMBD.


2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Maximilian Merz ◽  
Almuth Merz ◽  
Jie Wang ◽  
Lei Wei ◽  
Qiang Hu ◽  
...  

Abstract Osteolytic lesions (OL) characterize symptomatic multiple myeloma. The mechanisms of how malignant plasma cells (PC) cause OL in one region while others show no signs of bone destruction despite subtotal infiltration remain unknown. We report the first single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq) study of PC obtained prospectively from random bone marrow aspirates (BM) and paired imaging-guided biopsies of OL. We analyzed 148,630 PC from 24 different locations in 10 patients and observed vast inter- and intra-patient heterogeneity based on scRNA-seq analyses. Beyond the limited evidence for spatial heterogeneity from whole-exome sequencing, we found an additional layer of complexity by integrated analysis of anchored scRNA-seq datasets from the BM and OL. PC from OL were characterized by differentially expressed genes compared to PC from BM, including upregulation of genes associated with myeloma bone disease like DKK1, HGF and TIMP-1 as well as recurrent downregulation of JUN/FOS, DUSP1 and HBB. Assessment of PC from longitudinally collected samples revealed transcriptional changes after induction therapy. Our study, based on the largest number of PC analyzed by scRNA-seq, contributes to the understanding of destructive myeloma bone disease.


Blood ◽  
2008 ◽  
Vol 112 (11) ◽  
pp. 2735-2735
Author(s):  
Jerome Moreaux ◽  
Dirk Hose ◽  
Thierry Rème ◽  
Philippe Moine ◽  
Karène Mahtouk ◽  
...  

Abstract Multiple myeloma (MM) is a fatal hematologic malignancy associated with clonal expansion of malignant plasma cells within the bone marrow and the development of a destructive osteolytic bone disease. The principal cellular mechanisms involved in the development of myeloma bone disease are an increase in osteoclastic bone resorption, and a reduction in bone formation. Myeloma cells (MMC) are found in close association with sites of active bone resorption, and the interactions between myeloma cells and other cells within the specialized bone marrow microenvironment are essential, both for tumor growth and the development of myeloma bone disease. In order to investigate the gene expression profile (GEP) of osteoclastic cells, we compare GEP of osteoclastic cells (7 samples) with normal B cells (7 samples), normal bone marrow plasma cells (7 samples), bone marrow stromal cells (5 samples), bone marrow CD3 cells (5 samples), CD14 cells (7 samples), CD15 cells (7 samples), CD34 cells (7 samples) and primary MMC (123 samples). Using SAM analysis, a set of 552 genes was overexpressed in osteoclasts compared to others cell subpopulations with a FDR ≤ 1% and a ratio ≥ 2. Osteoclasts specifically overexpressed genes coding for chemokines (CCL2, CCL7, CCL8, CCL13, CCL18, CXCL5 and CCL23) and MMC growth factors (IGF-1, APRIL and IL-10). Anti- IGF-1 receptor and TACI-Fc inhibit MMC growth induced by osteoclasts. Among the chemokines overexpressed by osteoclasts, the majority of them have a common receptor: CCR2 expressed by MMC. Anti-CCR2 MoAb inhibits migration of the CCR2+ HMCL in response to osteoclasts. Expression data of purified MMC were analyzed by supervised clustering of group with higher (CCR2high) versus lower (CCR2low) CCR2 expression level. Patients in the CCR2high group are characterized by a higher bone disease. A set of 176 genes was differentially expressed between CCR2high and CCR2low MMC. CCR2high displayed a gene signature linked to the dependency of MMC on the interactions with the BM osteoclastic subpopulation and the osteoclastic bone resorption. Taken together, our findings suggest addition of chemokine antagonists to current treatment regimens for MM should result in better therapeutic responses because of the loss of both the protective effect of the bone marrow environment on the MMC and the osteoclastic cells activity.


Haematologica ◽  
2020 ◽  
pp. 0-0 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mara N. Zeissig ◽  
Duncan R. Hewett ◽  
Vasilios Panagopoulos ◽  
Krzysztof M. Mrozik ◽  
L. Bik To ◽  
...  

Multiple myeloma (MM) disease progression is dependent on the ability of MM plasma cells (PCs) to egress from the bone marrow (BM), enter the circulation and disseminate to distal BM sites. Expression of the chemokine CXCL12 by BM stromal cells is crucial for MM PC retention within the BM. However, the mechanisms which overcome CXCL12-mediated retention to enable dissemination are poorly understood. We have previously identified that treatment with the CCR1 ligand CCL3 inhibits the response to CXCL12 in MM cell lines, suggesting that CCL3/CCR1 signalling may enable egress of MM PC from the BM. Here, we demonstrated that CCR1 expression was an independent prognostic indicator in newly diagnosed MM patients. Furthermore, we showed that CCR1 is a crucial driver of dissemination in vivo, with CCR1 expression in the murine MM cell line 5TGM1 being associated with an increased incidence of bone and splenic disseminated tumours in C57BL/KaLwRij mice. Furthermore, we demonstrated that CCR1 knockout in the human myeloma cell line OPM2 resulted in a >95% reduction in circulating MM PC numbers and BM and splenic tumour dissemination following intratibial injection in NSG mice. Therapeutic targeting of CCR1 with the inhibitor CCX9588 significantly reduced OPM2 or RPMI-8226 dissemination in intratibial xenograft models. Collectively, our findings suggest a novel role for CCR1 as a critical driver of BM egress of MM PCs during tumour dissemination. Furthermore, these data suggest that CCR1 may represent a potential therapeutic target for the prevention of MM tumour dissemination.


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