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Role(s) of p53/p63 in chondrocyte re-differentiation upon activation of ER stress

"Under severe ER stress, apoptosis will occur in most cell types. This does not happen in a disease model for Metaphyseal chondrodysplasia type Schmid (MCDS), where ER stress was activated in the  hypertrophic zone of the growth plate where mutant collagen X proteins that cannot be folded correctly is expressed. Instead of normal progression from proliferating chondrocytes (PCs) to hypertrophic chondrocytes (HCs) and conversion to bone, HCs in MCDS mice undergo re-differentiation to PCs as a survival strategy due to an activation of ER stress. Transcription factors are known to be important in regulating differentiation. p53 family members, as transcription factors, are known to play important roles in developmental processes including cellular reprogramming, thus, we hypothesize that the ectopic expression of key transcription factors, p53 and TAp63, which are activated by ER stress is involved in HC re-differentiation. p53 is normally expressed in late PCs, Pre-HCs, and upper HCs, while TAp63 is expressed in PCs and Pre-HCs suggesting they may have roles in chondrocyte differentiation. p53 activated under ER
stress in HCs are nuclear localized in MCDS mice, but did not invoke the apoptotic programme"

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