Upregulation of Liver/Bone/Kidney Alkaline Phosphatase (LBK-ALP) has been associated with the onset of osteogenesis in vitro. Its transcription can be upregulated by Bone Morphogenetic Proteins (BMPs), constitutively active (CA) forms of their cognate receptors or appropriate Smads. The promoter of LBK-ALP has been partially characterized but not much is known about its transcriptional modulation by BMPs. A few Smad interacting transcriptional factors have been isolated to date. One of them, SIP1, belongs to the family of two-handed zinc finger proteins binding to E2-box sequences present, among others, in the promoter of mouse LBK-ALP. In the present study we investigated whether SIP1 could be a candidate regulator of LBK-ALP transcription in C2C12 cells. We demonstrate that SIP1 can repress LBK-ALP promoter activity induced by CA-Alk2-Smad1/Smad5 and that this repression is dependent on the binding of SIP1 to the CACCT/CACCTG cluster present in this promoter. Interestingly, SIP1 and alkaline phosphatase expression domains in developing mouse limb are mutually exclusive suggesting the possibility that SIP1 could also be involved in the transcriptional regulation of LBK-ALP in vivo. Taken together, these results offer an intriguing possibility that ALP upregulation at the onset of BMP-induced osteogenesis could involve Smad/SIP1 interactions resulting in the derepression of that gene.