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Tightly regulated cell fusion during osteoclastogenesis leads to formation of resorption-competent OCLs, whose sizes fall within a predictable physiological range. The molecular mechanisms that regulate the onset of OCL fusion and its subsequent arrest are, however, largely unknown. We have previously shown that OCLs cultured from mice homozygous for the R51Q mutation in the vesicle trafficking-associated protein sorting nexin 10, a mutation that induces autosomal recessive osteopetrosis in humans and in mice, display deregulated and continuous fusion that generates gigantic, inactive OCLs. Fusion of mature OCLs is therefore arrested by an active, genetically encoded, cell-autonomous, and SNX10-dependent mechanism. To directly examine whether SNX10 performs a similar role in vivo, we generated SNX10-deficient (SKO) mice and demonstrated that they display massive osteopetrosis and that their OCLs fuse uncontrollably in culture, as do homozygous R51Q SNX10 (RQ\/RQ) mice. OCLs that lack SNX10 exhibit persistent presence of DC-STAMP protein at their periphery, which may contribute to their uncontrolled fusion. To visualize endogenous SNX10-mutant OCLs in their native bone environment, we genetically labeled the OCLs of WT, SKO, and RQ\/RQ mice with enhanced Green Fluorescent Protein (EGFP), and then visualized the 3D organization of resident OCLs and the pericellular bone matrix by 2-photon, confocal, and second harmonics generation microscopy. We show that the volumes, surface areas and, in particular, the numbers of nuclei in the OCLs of both mutant strains were on average 2\u20136-fold larger than those of OCLs from WT mice, indicating that deregulated, excessive fusion occurs in the mutant mice. 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