Vitamin C epigenetically controls osteogenesis and bone mineralization

For decades vitamin C’s primary function in bone has been attributed to its involvement in collagen synthesis. Here, the authors uncover that vitamin C’s central role in bone is to globally orchestrate osteogenesis via epigenetic mechanisms.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Roman Thaler, Farzaneh Khani, Ines Sturmlechner, Sharareh S. Dehghani, Janet M. Denbeigh, Xianhu Zhou, Oksana Pichurin, Amel Dudakovic, Sofia S. Jerez, Jian Zhong, Jeong-Heon Lee, Ramesh Natarajan, Ivo Kalajzic, Yong-hui Jiang, David R. Deyle, Eleftherios P. Paschalis, Barbara M. Misof, Tamas Ordog, Andre J. van Wijnen
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-10-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32915-8