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Currently, it is unclear if all monocyte subsets exhibit osteoclastogenic potential. More...

Currently, it is unclear if all monocyte subsets exhibit osteoclastogenic potential. Furthermore, the role of lineage determining TFs in regulating OC differentiation on a genome-wide scale remains poorly understood. In this study, we utilized a novel Irf8 conditional knockout (Irf8 cKO) mouse model to characterize the importance of IRF8 in OC progenitor development and epigenetic regulation of OC differentiation. We performed RNA-seq on Irf8 gWT, gKO, cWT and cKO BMMs, preosteoclasts (PreOCs), and OCs. Cells were analyzed prior to (BMMs) and 3 days (PreOCs) and 6 days (OCs) after RANKL stimulation. Here we show that greater a number of genes are significantly upregulated in Irf8 cKO OCs when compared to WT and Irf8 gKO OCs. Altogether, our data shows that Irf8 cKO mice provide more precise/reliable OC-specific transcriptomic results when compared to Irf8 gKO mice. Overall design: RNA-seq analysis of transcriptional changes in BMMs stimulated with MCSF (day 0) and MCSF plus RANKL (day 3 (preOCs) and day 6 (OCs)). Both male and female mice and cells obtained from both genders were analyzed in this study. Less...