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Zhang Y, Xia Y, Sun J. Probiotics and microbial metabolites maintain barrier and neuromuscular functions and clean protein aggregation to delay disease progression in TDP43 mutation mice. Gut Microbes 2024; 16:2363880. [PMID: 38860943 PMCID: PMC11174066 DOI: 10.1080/19490976.2024.2363880] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2024] [Accepted: 05/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/12/2024] Open
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neuromuscular disease. The ALS mice expressing human mutant of transactive response DNA binding protein of 43 kDa (hmTDP43) showed intestinal dysfunction before neuromuscular symptoms. We hypothesize that restoring the intestinal and microbial homeostasis with a bacterial metabolite or probiotics delays the ALS disease onset. We investigate the pathophysiological changes in the intestine and neurons, intestinal and blood-brain barriers, and inflammation during the ALS progression. We then cultured enteric glial cells (EGCs) isolated from TDP43 mice for mechanistic studies. TDP43 mice had significantly decreased intestinal mobility, increased permeability, and weakened muscle, compared with the age-matched wild-type mice. We observed increased hmTDP43 and Glial fibrillary acidic protein (GFAP), and decreased expression of α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), tight junction proteins (ZO-1 and Claudin-5) in the colon, spinal cord, and brain in TDP43 mice. TDP43 mice had reduced Butyryl-coenzyme A CoA transferase, decreased butyrate-producing bacteria Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens, and increased Bacteroides fragilis, compared to the WT mice. Serum inflammation cytokines (IL-6, IL-17, and IFN-γ) and LPS were elevated in TDP43 mice. EGCs from TDP43 mice showed aggregation of hmTDP43 associated with increased GFAP and ionized calcium-binding adaptor molecule (IBA1, a microglia marker). TDP43 mice treated with butyrate or probiotic VSL#3 had significantly increased rotarod time, increased intestinal mobility and decreased permeability, compared to the untreated group. Butyrate or probiotics treatment decreased the expression of GFAP, TDP43, and increased α-SMA, ZO-1, and Claudin-5 in the colon, spinal cord, and brain. Also, butyrate or probiotics treatment enhanced the Butyryl-coenzyme A CoA transferase, Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens, and reduced inflammatory cytokines in TDP43 mice. The TDP43 EGCs treated with butyrate or probiotics showed reduced GFAP, IBA1, and TDP43 aggregation. Restoring the intestinal and microbial homeostasis by beneficial bacteria and metabolites provide a potential therapeutic strategy to treat ALS.
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- Yongguo Zhang
- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Division of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Department of Medicine, University of Illinois Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
- Jesse Brown VA Medical Center, Chicago, IL, USA
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Thomas HY, Ford Versypt AN. Pathophysiology of mesangial expansion in diabetic nephropathy: mesangial structure, glomerular biomechanics, and biochemical signaling and regulation. J Biol Eng 2022; 16:19. [PMID: 35918708 PMCID: PMC9347079 DOI: 10.1186/s13036-022-00299-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 16.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/31/2022] [Accepted: 06/23/2022] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
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Diabetic nephropathy, a kidney complication arising from diabetes, is the leading cause of death in diabetic patients. Unabated, the growing epidemic of diabetes is increasing instances of diabetic nephropathy. Although the main causes of diabetic nephropathy have been determined, the mechanisms of their combined effects on cellular and tissue function are not fully established. One of many damages of diabetic nephropathy is the development of fibrosis within the kidneys, termed mesangial expansion. Mesangial expansion is an important structural lesion that is characterized by the aberrant proliferation of mesangial cells and excess production of matrix proteins. Mesangial expansion is involved in the progression of kidney failure in diabetic nephropathy, yet its causes and mechanism of impact on kidney function are not well defined. Here, we review the literature on the causes of mesangial expansion and its impacts on cell and tissue function. We highlight the gaps that still remain and the potential areas where bioengineering studies can bring insight to mesangial expansion in diabetic nephropathy.
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- Haryana Y Thomas
- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA
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- Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA. .,Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, USA.
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Galley JC, Hahn SA, Miller MP, Durgin BG, Jackson EK, Stocker SD, Straub AC. Angiotensin II augments renal vascular smooth muscle soluble GC expression via an AT 1 receptor-forkhead box subclass O transcription factor signalling axis. Br J Pharmacol 2022; 179:2490-2504. [PMID: 33963547 PMCID: PMC8883839 DOI: 10.1111/bph.15522] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/19/2021] [Revised: 04/18/2021] [Accepted: 04/23/2021] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Reduced renal blood flow triggers activation of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS) leading to renovascular hypertension. Renal vascular smooth muscle expression of the NO receptor, soluble GC (sGC), modulates the vasodilator response needed to control renal vascular tone and blood flow. Here, we tested if angiotensin II (Ang II) affects sGC expression via an AT1 receptor-forkhead box subclass O (FoxO) transcription factor dependent mechanism. EXPERIMENTAL APPROACH Using a murine two-kidney-one-clip (2K1C) renovascular hypertension model, we measured renal artery vasodilatory function and sGC expression. Additionally, we conducted cell culture studies using rat renal pre-glomerular smooth muscle cells (RPGSMCs) to test the in vitro mechanistic effects of Ang II treatment on sGC expression and downstream function. KEY RESULTS Contralateral, unclipped renal arteries in 2K1C mice showed increased NO-dependent vasorelaxation compared to sham control mice. Immunofluorescence studies revealed increased sGC protein expression in 2K1C contralateral renal arteries over sham controls. RPGSMCs treated with Ang II caused a significant up-regulation of sGC mRNA and protein expression as well as downstream sGC-dependent signalling. Ang II signalling effects on sGC expression occurred through an AT1 receptor and FoxO transcription factor-dependent mechanism at both the mRNA and protein expression levels. CONCLUSION AND IMPLICATIONS Renal artery smooth muscle, in vivo and in vitro, up-regulates expression of sGC following RAAS activity. In both cases, up-regulation of sGC leads to increased downstream cGMP signalling, suggesting a previously unrecognized protective mechanism to improve renal blood flow in the uninjured contralateral renal artery. LINKED ARTICLES This article is part of a themed issue on cGMP Signalling in Cell Growth and Survival. To view the other articles in this section visit http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/bph.v179.11/issuetoc.
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- Joseph C. Galley
- Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Department of Medicine, Renal-Electrolyte Division,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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- Heart, Lung, Blood and Vascular Medicine Institute,
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
- Department of Pharmacology and Chemical Biology, University
of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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Midgley AC, Wei Y, Zhu D, Gao F, Yan H, Khalique A, Luo W, Jiang H, Liu X, Guo J, Zhang C, Feng G, Wang K, Bai X, Ning W, Yang C, Zhao Q, Kong D. Multifunctional Natural Polymer Nanoparticles as Antifibrotic Gene Carriers for CKD Therapy. J Am Soc Nephrol 2020; 31:2292-2311. [PMID: 32769144 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2019111160] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/10/2019] [Accepted: 05/27/2020] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Progressive fibrosis is the underlying pathophysiological process of CKD, and targeted prevention or reversal of the profibrotic cell phenotype is an important goal in developing therapeutics for CKD. Nanoparticles offer new ways to deliver antifibrotic therapies to damaged tissues and resident cells to limit manifestation of the profibrotic phenotype. METHODS We focused on delivering plasmid DNA expressing bone morphogenetic protein 7 (BMP7) or hepatocyte growth factor (HGF)-NK1 (HGF/NK1) by encapsulation within chitosan nanoparticles coated with hyaluronan, to safely administer multifunctional nanoparticles containing the plasmid DNA to the kidneys for localized and sustained expression of antifibrotic factors. We characterized and evaluated nanoparticles in vitro for biocompatibility and antifibrotic function. To assess antifibrotic activity in vivo, we used noninvasive delivery to unilateral ureteral obstruction mouse models of CKD. RESULTS Synthesis of hyaluronan-coated chitosan nanoparticles containing plasmid DNA expressing either BMP7 or NGF/NKI resulted in consistently sized nanoparticles, which-following endocytosis driven by CD44+ cells-promoted cellular growth and inhibited fibrotic gene expression in vitro. Intravenous tail injection of these nanoparticles resulted in approximately 40%-45% of gene uptake in kidneys in vivo. The nanoparticles attenuated the development of fibrosis and rescued renal function in unilateral ureteral obstruction mouse models of CKD. Gene delivery of BMP7 reversed the progression of fibrosis and regenerated tubules, whereas delivery of HGF/NK1 halted CKD progression by eliminating collagen fiber deposition. CONCLUSIONS Nanoparticle delivery of HGF/NK1 conveyed potent antifibrotic and proregenerative effects. Overall, this research provided the proof of concept on which to base future investigations for enhanced targeting and transfection of therapeutic genes to kidney tissues, and an avenue toward treatment of CKD.
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- Adam C Midgley
- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China .,Rongxiang Xu Center for Regenerative Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.,Rongxiang Xu Center for Regenerative Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.,Rongxiang Xu Center for Regenerative Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.,Rongxiang Xu Center for Regenerative Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.,Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Genetics and Cellular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biomaterial Research, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Genitourinary Oncology, Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital, National Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin Key Laboratory of Cancer Prevention and Therapy, Tianjin's Clinical Research Center for Cancer, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Department of Nephrology, Chinese PLA General Hospital, Chinese PLA Institute of Nephrology, Beijing, China.,State Key Laboratory of Kidney Diseases, National Clinical Research Center for Kidney Diseases, Beijing, China
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- Department of Genetics and Cellular Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Molecular Microbiology and Technology, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China
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- Key Laboratory of Bioactive Materials, Ministry of Education, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China .,Rongxiang Xu Center for Regenerative Life Science, State Key Laboratory of Medicinal Chemical Biology, College of Life Sciences, Nankai University, Tianjin, China.,Tianjin Key Laboratory of Biomaterial Research, Institute of Biomedical Engineering, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences and Peking Union Medical College, Tianjin, China
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Chang CJ, Minei R, Sato T, Taniguchi A. The Influence of a Nanopatterned Scaffold that Mimics Abnormal Renal Mesangial Matrix on Mesangial Cell Behavior. Int J Mol Sci 2019; 20:E5349. [PMID: 31661773 PMCID: PMC6861955 DOI: 10.3390/ijms20215349] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2019] [Revised: 10/15/2019] [Accepted: 10/26/2019] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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The alteration of mesangial matrix (MM) components in mesangium, such as type IV collagen (COL4) and type I collagen (COL1), is commonly found in progressive glomerular disease. Mesangial cells (MCs) responding to altered MM, show critical changes in cell function. This suggests that the diseased MM structure could play an important role in MC behavior. To investigate how MC behavior is influenced by the diseased MM 3D nanostructure, we fabricated the titanium dioxide (TiO2)-based nanopatterns that mimic diseased MM nanostructures. Immortalized mouse MCs were used to assess the influence of disease-mimic nanopatterns on cell functions, and were compared with a normal-mimic nanopattern. The results showed that the disease-mimic nanopattern induced disease-like behavior, including increased proliferation, excessive production of abnormal MM components (COL1 and fibronectin) and decreased normal MM components (COL4 and laminin α1). In contrast, the normal-mimic nanopattern actually resulted in cells displaying normal proliferation and the production of normal MM components. In addition, increased expressions of α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA), transforming growth factor β1 (TGF-β1) and integrin α5β1 were detected in cells grown on the disease-mimic nanopattern. These results indicated that the disease-mimic nanopattern induced disease-like cell behavior. These findings will help further establish a disease model that mimics abnormal MM nanostructures and also to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying glomerular disease.
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- Chia-Jung Chang
- Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
- Cellular Functional Nanobiomaterials Group, Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
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- Glycobiology Laboratory, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1 Kamitomiokamachi, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2137, Japan.
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- Glycobiology Laboratory, Nagaoka University of Technology, 1603-1 Kamitomiokamachi, Nagaoka, Niigata 940-2137, Japan.
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- Department of Nanoscience and Nanoengineering, Graduate School of Advanced Science and Engineering, Waseda University, 3-4-1 Okubo, Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo 169-8555, Japan.
- Cellular Functional Nanobiomaterials Group, Research Center for Functional Materials, National Institute for Materials Science, 1-1 Namiki, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-0044, Japan.
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Zabini D, Granton E, Hu Y, Miranda MZ, Weichelt U, Breuils Bonnet S, Bonnet S, Morrell NW, Connelly KA, Provencher S, Ghanim B, Klepetko W, Olschewski A, Kapus A, Kuebler WM. Loss of SMAD3 Promotes Vascular Remodeling in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension via MRTF Disinhibition. Am J Respir Crit Care Med 2019; 197:244-260. [PMID: 29095649 DOI: 10.1164/rccm.201702-0386oc] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
Abstract
RATIONALE Vascular remodeling in pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) results from smooth muscle cell hypertrophy and proliferation of vascular cells. Loss of BMPR-II (bone morphogenetic protein receptor 2) signaling and increased signaling via TGF-β (transforming growth factor β) and its downstream mediators SMAD (small body size [a C. elegans protein] mothers against decapentaplegic [a Drosophila protein family])-2/3 has been proposed to drive lung vascular remodeling; yet, proteomic analyses indicate a loss of SMAD3 in PAH. OBJECTIVES We proposed that SMAD3 may be dysregulated in PAH and that loss of SMAD3 may present a pathophysiological master switch by disinhibiting its interaction partner, MRTF (myocardin-related transcription factor), which drives muscle protein expression. METHODS SMAD3 levels were measured in lungs from PAH patients, rats treated either with Sugen/hypoxia or monocrotaline (MCT), and in mice carrying a BMPR2 mutation. In vitro, effects of SMAD3 or BMPR2 silencing or SMAD3 overexpression on cell proliferation or smooth muscle hypertrophy were assessed. In vivo, the therapeutic and prophylactic potential of CCG1423, an inhibitor of MRTF, was investigated in Sugen/hypoxia rats. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS SMAD3 was downregulated in lungs of patients with PAH and in pulmonary arteries of three independent PAH animal models. TGF-β treatment replicated the loss of SMAD3 in human pulmonary artery smooth muscle cells (huPASMCs) and human pulmonary artery endothelial cells. SMAD3 silencing increased proliferation and migration in huPASMCs and human pulmonary artery endothelial cells. Coimmunoprecipitation revealed reduced interaction of MRTF with SMAD3 in TGF-β-treated huPASMCs and pulmonary arteries of PAH animal models. In huPASMCs, loss of SMAD3 or BMPR-II increased smooth muscle actin expression, which was attenuated by MRTF inhibition. Conversely, SMAD3 overexpression prevented TGF-β-induced activation of an MRTF reporter and reduced actin stress fibers in BMPR2-silenced huPASMCs. MRTF inhibition attenuated PAH and lung vascular remodeling in Sugen/hypoxia rats. CONCLUSIONS Loss of SMAD3 presents a novel pathomechanism in PAH that promotes vascular cell proliferation and-via MRTF disinhibition-hypertrophy of huPASMCs, thereby reconciling the parallel induction of a synthetic and contractile huPASMC phenotype.
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- Diana Zabini
- 1 Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,2 Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria
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- 1 Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 1 Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 1 Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 3 Department of Physiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany
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- 4 Pulmonary Hypertension Group of the Institute of Cardiology and Pulmonology, Laval University, Quebec City, Québec, Canada
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- 4 Pulmonary Hypertension Group of the Institute of Cardiology and Pulmonology, Laval University, Quebec City, Québec, Canada
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- 5 Department of Medicine, University of Cambridge School of Clinical Medicine, Cambridge, United Kingdom
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- 1 Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 4 Pulmonary Hypertension Group of the Institute of Cardiology and Pulmonology, Laval University, Quebec City, Québec, Canada
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- 6 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University, Vienna, Austria; and
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- 6 Department of Thoracic Surgery, Medical University, Vienna, Austria; and
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- 2 Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Lung Vascular Research, Graz, Austria
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- 1 Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,7 Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- 1 Keenan Research Centre for Biomedical Science, St. Michael's Hospital, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.,3 Department of Physiology, Charité-Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Berlin, Germany.,7 Department of Surgery, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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Urinary bladder organ hypertrophy is partially regulated by Akt1-mediated protein synthesis pathway. Life Sci 2018; 201:63-71. [PMID: 29572181 DOI: 10.1016/j.lfs.2018.03.041] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2017] [Revised: 03/14/2018] [Accepted: 03/20/2018] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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AIMS The present study aims to investigate the role of Akt in the regulation of urinary bladder organ hypertrophy caused by partial bladder outlet obstruction (pBOO). MAIN METHODS Male rats were surgically induced for pBOO. Real-time PCR and western blot were used to examine the levels of mRNA and protein. A phosphoinositide 3-kinase (PI3K) inhibitor LY294002 was used to inhibit the activity of endogenous Akt. KEY FINDINGS The urinary bladder developed hypertrophy at 2 weeks of pBOO. The protein but not mRNA levels of type I collagen and α-smooth muscle actin (αSMA) were increased in pBOO bladder when compared to sham control. The phosphorylation (activation) levels of Akt1 (p-Ser473), mammalian target of rapamycin (mTOR), p70S6 kinase (p70S6K), and 4E-BP1 were also increased in pBOO bladder. LY294002 treatment reduced the phosphorylation levels of Akt1 and 4E-BP1, and the protein levels of type I collagen and αSMA in pBOO bladder. The mRNA and protein levels of proliferating cell nuclear antigen (PCNA) were increased in pBOO bladder, and PCNA up-regulation occurred in urothelial not muscular layer. LY294002 treatment had no effect on the mRNA and protein levels of PCNA in pBOO bladder. LY294002 treatment partially reduced the bladder weight caused by pBOO. SIGNIFICANCE pBOO-induced urinary bladder hypertrophy is attributable to fibrosis, smooth muscle cellular hypertrophy, and urothelium cell hyper-proliferation. Akt1-mediated protein synthesis in pBOO bladder contributes to type I collagen and αSMA but not PCNA up-regulation. Target of Akt1 is necessary but not sufficient in treatment of urinary bladder hypertrophy following pBOO.
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Circulating fibronectin contributes to mesangial expansion in a murine model of type 1 diabetes. Kidney Int 2017; 91:1374-1385. [PMID: 28159318 DOI: 10.1016/j.kint.2016.12.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2016] [Revised: 11/14/2016] [Accepted: 12/01/2016] [Indexed: 01/02/2023]
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Fibronectin is ubiquitously expressed in the extracellular matrix, and its accumulation in the glomerular mesangium in diabetic nephropathy is associated with deterioration of renal function in these patients. However, the exact role of fibronectin in the pathogenesis of diabetic nephropathy remains unknown. To clarify this, we administered fluorescent-labeled plasma fibronectin to wild-type mice and found it to accumulate in the mesangium. Using liver-specific conditional-knockout mice to decrease circulating fibronectin, we reduced circulating fibronectin by more than 90%. In streptozotocin-induced diabetes of these knockout mice, the pronounced fall in circulating fibronectin resulted in a decrease in mesangial expansion by 25% and a decline in albuminuria by 30% compared to diabetic control mice. Indeed, the amount of fibronectin in the kidney was reduced, as was the total amount of collagen. In vitro experiments confirmed that matrix accumulation of fibronectin was enhanced by increasing fibronectin only, glucose only, or the combination of both. Thus, circulating fibronectin contributes to mesangial expansion and exacerbation of albuminuria in a murine model of type 1 diabetes.
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Histone Lysine Methylation in TGF-β1 Mediated p21 Gene Expression in Rat Mesangial Cells. BIOMED RESEARCH INTERNATIONAL 2016; 2016:6927234. [PMID: 27247942 PMCID: PMC4876202 DOI: 10.1155/2016/6927234] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2016] [Accepted: 04/11/2016] [Indexed: 01/11/2023]
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Transforming growth factor beta1- (TGF-β1-) induced p21-dependent mesangial cell (MC) hypertrophy plays a key role in the pathogenesis of chronic renal diseases including diabetic nephropathy (DN). Increasing evidence demonstrated the role of posttranscriptional modifications (PTMs) in the event; however, the precise regulatory mechanism of histone lysine methylation remains largely unknown. Here, we examined the roles of both histone H3 lysine 4 and lysine 9 methylations (H3K4me/H3K9me) in TGF-β1 induced p21 gene expression in rat mesangial cells (RMCs). Our results indicated that TGF-β1 upregulated the expression of p21 gene in RMCs, which was positively correlated with the increased chromatin marks associated with active genes (H3K4me1/H3K4me2/H3K4me3) and negatively correlated with the decreased levels of repressive marks (H3K9me2/H3K9me3) at p21 gene promoter. TGF-β1 also elevated the recruitment of the H3K4 methyltransferase (HMT) SET7/9 to the p21 gene promoter. SET7/9 gene silencing with small interfering RNAs (siRNAs) significantly abolished the TGF-β1 induced p21 gene expression. Taken together, these results reveal the key role of histone H3Kme in TGF-β1 mediated p21 gene expression in RMC, partly through HMT SET7/9 occupancy, suggesting H3Kme and SET7/9 may be potential renoprotective agents in managing chronic renal diseases.
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Nagasu H, Satoh M, Kiyokage E, Kidokoro K, Toida K, Channon KM, Kanwar YS, Sasaki T, Kashihara N. Activation of endothelial NAD(P)H oxidase accelerates early glomerular injury in diabetic mice. J Transl Med 2016; 96:25-36. [PMID: 26552047 PMCID: PMC4874489 DOI: 10.1038/labinvest.2015.128] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/08/2015] [Revised: 09/12/2015] [Accepted: 09/18/2015] [Indexed: 11/09/2022] Open
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Increased generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is a common denominative pathogenic mechanism underlying vascular and renal complications in diabetes mellitus. Endothelial NAD(P)H oxidase is a major source of vascular ROS, and it has an important role in endothelial dysfunction. We hypothesized that activation of endothelial NAD(P)H oxidase initiates and worsens the progression of diabetic nephropathy, particularly in the development of albuminuria. We used transgenic mice with endothelial-targeted overexpression of the catalytic subunit of NAD(P)H oxidase, Nox2 (NOX2TG). NOX2TG mice were crossed with Akita insulin-dependent diabetic (Akita) mice that develop progressive hyperglycemia. We compared the progression of diabetic nephropathy in Akita versus NOX2TG-Akita mice. NOX2TG-Akita mice and Akita mice developed significant albuminuria above the baseline at 6 and 10 weeks of age, respectively. Compared with Akita mice, NOX2TG-Akita mice exhibited higher levels of NAD(P)H oxidase activity in glomeruli, developed glomerular endothelial perturbations, and attenuated expression of glomerular glycocalyx. Moreover, in contrast to Akita mice, the NOX2TG-Akita mice had numerous endothelial microparticles (blebs), as detected by scanning electron microscopy, and increased glomerular permeability. Furthermore, NOX2TG-Akita mice exhibited distinct phenotypic changes in glomerular mesangial cells expressing α-smooth muscle actin, and in podocytes expressing increased levels of desmin, whereas the glomeruli generated increased levels of ROS. In conclusion, activation of endothelial NAD(P)H oxidase in the presence of hyperglycemia initiated and exacerbated diabetic nephropathy characterized by the development of albuminuria. Moreover, ROS generated in the endothelium compounded glomerular dysfunctions by altering the phenotypes of mesangial cells and compromising the integrity of the podocytes.
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- Hajime Nagasu
- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Anatomy, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Cardiovascular Medicine, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
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- Department of Pathology and Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL, USA
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- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Kawasaki Medical School, Kurashiki, Okayama, Japan
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Fu RG, Zhang T, Wang L, Du Y, Jia LN, Hou JJ, Yao GL, Liu XD, Zhang L, Chen L, Gui BS, Xue RL. Inhibition of the K+ channel K(Ca)3.1 reduces TGF-β1-induced premature senescence, myofibroblast phenotype transition and proliferation of mesangial cells. PLoS One 2014; 9:e87410. [PMID: 24489911 PMCID: PMC3905019 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0087410] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/09/2013] [Accepted: 12/25/2013] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Objective KCa3.1 channel participates in many important cellular functions. This study planned to investigate the potential involvement of KCa3.1 channel in premature senescence, myofibroblast phenotype transition and proliferation of mesangial cells. Methods & Materials Rat mesangial cells were cultured together with TGF-β1 (2 ng/ml) and TGF-β1 (2 ng/ml) + TRAM-34 (16 nM) separately for specified times from 0 min to 60 min. The cells without treatment served as controls. The location of KCa3.1 channels in mesangial cells was determined with Confocal laser microscope, the cell cycle of mesangial cells was assessed with flow cytometry, the protein and mRNA expression of KCa3.1, α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) and fibroblast-specific protein-1 (FSP-1) were detected with Western blot and RT-PCR. One-way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and Student-Newman-Keuls-q test (SNK-q) were used to do statistical analysis. Statistical significance was considered at P<0.05. Results Kca3.1 channels were located in the cell membranes and/or in the cytoplasm of mesangial cells. The percentage of cells in G0-G1 phase and the expression of Kca3.1, α-SMA and FSP-1 were elevated under the induction of TGF-β1 when compared to the control and decreased under the induction of TGF-β1+TRAM-34 when compared to the TGF-β1 induced (P<0.05 or P<0.01). Conclusion Targeted disruption of KCa3.1 inhibits TGF-β1-induced premature aging, myofibroblast-like phenotype transdifferentiation and proliferation of mesangial cells.
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- Rong-Guo Fu
- Department of Nephrology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China
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- School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Nephrology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Nephrology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Nephrology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China
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- School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Nephrology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China
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- Cadre's ward, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R. China
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- Medical Laboratory, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, P.R. China
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- Department of Oncology, First Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Nephrology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China
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- Department of Anesthesia, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, P.R. China
- * E-mail: (RLX); (BSG)
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Fu RG, Wu JJ, Xue RL, Zhang T, Wang L, Wu XL, Duan ZY, Jia LN, Ma LQ, Du Y, Wei LT. Premature senescence and cellular phenotype transformation of mesangial cells induced by TGF-B1. Ren Fail 2013; 35:1142-5. [PMID: 23883105 DOI: 10.3109/0886022x.2013.817279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/31/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGF-β1) is a polypeptide member of the transforming growth factor β superfamily of cytokines and performs many cellular functions. Its overexpression may lead to renal fibrosis. AIM This study planed to investigate the effects of TGF-β1 on the cell cycle and phenotype of mesangial cells. METHODS Rat mesangial cells were cultured together with different concentrations (0, 1, 2, 5, and 10 ng/mL) of TGF-β1 for specified times from 0 min to 72 h. 0 ng/mL TGF-β1 and 0 min served as controls. Cell cycles were assessed by flow cytometry and α-smooth muscle actin expression (α-SMA) protein expression by western blot analysis. All data were presented as Mean ± SD. Statistical analysis was performed by using one-way analysis of variance and correlation analysis. Results were considered significant at p < 0.05. RESULTS After 15 min of co-culture with different concentrations of TGF-β1, the percentage of mesangial cells in G0/G1 phase was significantly elevated compared to the control (p < 0.05). 12 h co-culture induced cell hyperplasia, 24 h co-culture obvious up-regulation of α-SMA (p < 0.01) and one or two cells' myofibroblast phenotype transition, and 36 h co-culture several cells' phenotype transition. Correlation analysis prompted that the TGF-β1-induced premature aging was time-dependent (p < 0.01). CONCLUSION TGF-β1 may induce mesangial cells' premature senescence and myofibroblast-like phenotype transformation time-dependently, which may contribute to the development of early stage of glomerulosclerosis.
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- Rong-Guo Fu
- Department of Nephrology, Second Affiliated Hospital, School of Medicine, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an, Shaanxi Province, PR China
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Johno H, Kitamura M. Pathological in situ reprogramming of somatic cells by the unfolded protein response. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2013; 183:644-54. [PMID: 23831328 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2013.05.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2013] [Revised: 05/07/2013] [Accepted: 05/10/2013] [Indexed: 12/19/2022]
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In response to tissue injuries, terminally differentiated cells are reprogrammed to undergo dedifferentiation to gain mitogenic and metabolic properties. The dedifferentiated cells acquire an immature phenotype, proliferate actively, produce abundant extracellular matrix, and recruit circulating leukocytes via secretion of chemokines, contributing to tissue repair and/or fibrosis. However, this remodeling process is self-limiting, and in the later phase, the activated, dedifferentiated cells are reprogrammed to redifferentiate into a mature, quiescent phenotype. Currently, molecular mechanisms underlying this bidirectional pathological reprogramming remain elusive. It is known that the unfolded protein response (UPR) is induced at local tissues under pathological situations and affects cellular fate-survival or death. It is also known that the UPR is involved in cell differentiation and organogenesis during embryonic development. In this review, we describe a hypothesis for regulatory roles of the UPR in the pathological reprogramming of somatic cells (ie, cellular dedifferentiation and redifferentiation at the sites of injury).
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- Hisashi Johno
- Department of Molecular Signaling, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Yamanashi, Japan
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Lan T, Liu W, Xie X, Huang K, Peng J, Huang J, Shen X, Liu P, Yang H, Huang H. Berberine suppresses high glucose-induced TGF-β1 and fibronectin synthesis in mesangial cells through inhibition of sphingosine kinase 1/AP-1 pathway. Eur J Pharmacol 2012; 697:165-72. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ejphar.2012.10.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 21] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/18/2012] [Revised: 09/25/2012] [Accepted: 10/09/2012] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Johno H, Nakajima S, Kato H, Yao J, Paton AW, Paton JC, Katoh R, Shimizu F, Kitamura M. Unfolded protein response causes a phenotypic shift of inflamed glomerular cells toward redifferentiation through dual blockade of Akt and Smad signaling pathways. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2012; 181:1977-90. [PMID: 23031256 DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2012.08.015] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/01/2012] [Revised: 08/01/2012] [Accepted: 08/15/2012] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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During recovery from acute glomerulonephritis, cell proliferation, matrix expansion, and expression of the dedifferentiation marker α-smooth muscle actin (α-SMA) subside spontaneously. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying this recovery process remain elusive. In mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis, the unfolded protein response (UPR) is induced in activated, dedifferentiated mesangial cells. We investigated the role of the UPR in mesangial cell deactivation and redifferentiation and found that, during experimental glomerulonephritis in rats, reinforcement of the UPR significantly attenuated mesangial cell proliferation, matrix expansion, and expression of α-SMA. Consistent with this in vivo result, induction of the UPR suppressed cell proliferation and transcriptional expression of type IV collagen (ColIV) and α-SMA in activated mesangial cells. The UPR reduced phosphorylation of Akt in vitro and in vivo, and it was responsible for attenuation of cell proliferation. The UPR also preferentially depressed levels of total and phosphorylated Smads without affecting transcriptional levels, and it was responsible for suppression of ColIV and α-SMA. Translational suppression via the eIF2α pathway, but not proteasome-mediated protein degradation, was responsible for the down-regulation of Smads. These results suggest the novel potential of the UPR to facilitate a phenotypic shift of activated glomerular cells toward deactivation and redifferentiation. The UPR may serve as endogenous machinery that supports recovery of glomeruli from acute inflammation.
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- Hisashi Johno
- Department of Molecular Signaling, Interdisciplinary Graduate School of Medicine and Engineering, University of Yamanashi, Chuo, Japan
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McCarthy KJ, Wassenhove-McCarthy DJ. The glomerular basement membrane as a model system to study the bioactivity of heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans. MICROSCOPY AND MICROANALYSIS : THE OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF MICROSCOPY SOCIETY OF AMERICA, MICROBEAM ANALYSIS SOCIETY, MICROSCOPICAL SOCIETY OF CANADA 2012; 18:3-21. [PMID: 22258721 PMCID: PMC3351113 DOI: 10.1017/s1431927611012682] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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The glomerular basement membrane and its associated cells are critical elements in the renal ultrafiltration process. Traditionally the anionic charge associated with several carbohydrate moieties in the glomerular basement membrane are thought to form a charge selective barrier that restricts the transmembrane flux of anionic proteins across the glomerular basement membrane into the urinary space. The charge selective function, along with the size selective component of the basement membrane, serves to limit the efflux of plasma proteins from the capillary lumen. Heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans are anionically charged carbohydrate structures attached to proteoglycan core proteins and have a role in establishing the charge selective function of the glomerular basement membrane. Although there are a large number of studies in the literature that support this concept, the results of several recent studies using molecular genetic approaches to minimize the anionic charge of the glomerular basement membrane would suggest that the role of heparan sulfate glycosaminoglycans in the glomerular capillary wall are still not yet entirely resolved, suggesting that this research area still requires new and novel exploration.
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- Kevin J McCarthy
- Department of Pathology, LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport, 1501 Kings Highway, Shreveport, LA 71130-3932, USA.
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Martin-Garrido A, Brown DI, Lyle AN, Dikalova A, Seidel-Rogol B, Lassègue B, San Martín A, Griendling KK. NADPH oxidase 4 mediates TGF-β-induced smooth muscle α-actin via p38MAPK and serum response factor. Free Radic Biol Med 2011; 50:354-62. [PMID: 21074607 PMCID: PMC3032946 DOI: 10.1016/j.freeradbiomed.2010.11.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2010] [Revised: 10/12/2010] [Accepted: 11/04/2010] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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In contrast to other cell types, vascular smooth muscle cells modify their phenotype in response to external signals. NADPH oxidase 4 (Nox4) is critical for maintenance of smooth muscle gene expression; however, the underlying mechanisms are incompletely characterized. Using smooth muscle α-actin (SMA) as a prototypical smooth muscle gene and transforming growth factor-β (TGF-β) as a differentiating agent, we examined Nox4-dependent signaling. TGF-β increases Nox4 expression and activity in human aortic smooth muscle cells (HASMC). Transfection of HASMC with siRNA against Nox4 (siNox4) abolishes TGF-β-induced SMA expression and stress fiber formation. siNox4 also significantly inhibits TGF-β-stimulated p38MAPK phosphorylation, as well as that of its substrate, mitogen-activated protein kinase-activated protein kinase-2. Moreover, the p38MAPK inhibitor SB-203580 nearly completely blocks the SMA increase induced by TGF-β. Inhibition of either p38MAPK or NADPH oxidase-derived reactive oxygen species impairs the TGF-β-induced phosphorylation of Ser103 on serum response factor (SRF) and reduces its transcriptional activity. Binding of SRF to myocardin-related transcription factor (MRTF) is also necessary, because downregulation of MRTF by siRNA abolishes TGF-β-induced SMA expression. Taken together, these data suggest that Nox4 regulates SMA expression via activation of a p38MAPK/SRF/MRTF pathway in response to TGF-β.
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- Abel Martin-Garrido
- Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA
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Kaukinen A, Kuusniemi AM, Helin H, Jalanko H. Changes in glomerular mesangium in kidneys with congenital nephrotic syndrome of the Finnish type. Pediatr Nephrol 2010; 25:867-75. [PMID: 20020158 DOI: 10.1007/s00467-009-1385-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/08/2009] [Revised: 11/05/2009] [Accepted: 11/05/2009] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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Congenital nephrotic syndrome of the Finnish type (NPHS1, CNF) is an autosomal recessive disease caused by mutations in a major podocyte protein, nephrin. NPHS1 is associated with heavy proteinuria and the development of glomerular scarring. We studied the cellular and molecular changes affecting the glomerular mesangium in NPHS1 kidneys. Marked hyperplasia of mesangial cells (MC) was mainly responsible for the early mesangial expansion in NPHS1 glomeruli. The levels of the proliferation marker, mindbomb homolog 1 and the major MC mitogen, platelet-derived growth factor, and its receptors, however, were quite normal. Only a small number of cells were positive for CD68 (marker for phagocytic cells) and CD34 (marker for mesenchymal precursor cells) in the NPHS1 mesangium. MCs strongly expressed alpha-smooth muscle actin, indicating myofibloblast transformation. The expression levels of the profibrotic mediators osteopontin and transforming growth factor beta were up-regulated in NPHS1 glomeruli by 3.2 and 1.6-fold, respectively, compared to the controls. The synthesis by MCs of the typical fibroblast products collagen I, fibronectin, and tenascin, however, was low, and the extracellular matrix increase was caused by the accumulation of a normal MC product, collagen IV. The results indicate that severe glomerular sclerosis can develop without major qualitative cellular or molecular changes in the mesangium.
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- Anne Kaukinen
- Children's Hospital and Biomedicum Helsinki, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland.
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Freidkin I, Herman M, Tobar A, Chagnac A, Ori Y, Korzets A, Gafter U. Effects of histone deacetylase inhibitors on rat mesangial cells. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2009; 298:F426-34. [PMID: 19923417 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00107.2009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/21/2023] Open
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Glomerular mesangial cells (MCs) proliferate and produce extracellular matrix proteins in many progressive renal diseases. Recently, histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDIs) were shown to have antiproliferative and antifibrogenic effects in some in vitro and in vivo models. Using the [(3)H]-thymidine incorporation test, we have found that the HDI trichostatin A (TSA) effectively inhibits MC growth at nontoxic nanomolar concentrations. Similarly, the HDI valproic acid also inhibited MCs proliferation. Cell-cycle analysis indicated an arrest in G(0)/G(1) phase in response to TSA, which was accompanied by elevation in synthesis of the cyclin-dependent kinase inhibitors (CDKIs) p21/Waf1 and p27/Kip1. TSA treatment suppressed alpha-smooth muscle actin, transforming growth factor-beta1, and collagen protein synthesis by MCs and induced myofibroblast-like appearance of proliferating MCs. In the in vivo model of the anti-Thy1.1-induced glomerulonephritis, TSA and valproic acid treatments significantly suppressed proteinuria. Collectively, these data suggest a therapeutic potential for HDIs in the treatment of mesangial proliferative diseases and glomerulosclerosis.
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- Ilya Freidkin
- Department of Nephrology and Hypertension, Hasharon Hospital, Rabin Medical Center, Petah Tikva, Israel
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The effects of ACE inhibitor and angiotensin receptor blocker on clusterin and apoptosis in the kidney tissue of streptozotocin-diabetic rats. J Mol Histol 2008; 39:605-16. [PMID: 18949565 DOI: 10.1007/s10735-008-9201-2] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/15/2008] [Accepted: 10/09/2008] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Our first aim was to determine the effects of secreted clusterin (sCLU) and nuclear clusterin (nCLU) in diabetic nephropathy. We also aimed to investigate the post-effects of angiotensin II blockage treatment on clusterin expression and to compare these with apoptosis. Five groups of Wistar albino rats were used: First group consisted of healthy controls; the second group included the untreated STZ-diabetics; 30 days of irbesartan or perindopril treated STZ-diabetics formed the third and the fourth groups, respectively; while the subjects receiving a combined treatment with irbesartan and perindopril for 30 days consisted the fifth group. TUNEL method for apoptosis and immunohistochemical staining for TGF-beta1, alpha-SMA, clusterin-beta and clusterin-alpha/beta antibodies were performed. Apoptotic cells especially increased in the kidney tubuli of untreated diabetic group and on the contrary, a significant decrease was observed in the group that received a combined drug treatment. While sCLU was increased in the glomeruli and tubuli of the untreated diabetic group, it was decreased in all the treated groups. An increase in the nCLU immunoreactivity was observed in the podocytes, mesangial cells, and the injured tubule cells of the untreated diabetic group. nCLU immunopositive cells were decreased in all treated diabetic groups. In addition to this, the distribution of nCLU was similar to the distribution of apoptotic cells in the diabetic groups. Our results indicate that sCLU expression in diabetic nephropathy was induced due to renal tissue damage, and the nCLU expression increase in renal tubuli was related to apoptosis. Although irbesartan and perindopril prevented further renal injury in diabetes, a combined application of low-dose ACEI and AT1R blockers revealed more efficient measures, by means of renal damage prevention.
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Yang C, Glass WF. Expression of alpha-actinin-1 in human glomerular mesangial cells in vivo and in vitro. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2008; 233:689-93. [PMID: 18408146 DOI: 10.3181/0710-rm-279] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Recent studies have demonstrated important roles of alpha-actinins in glomerular disease, while little information is known about the expression profile of alpha-actinins in human glomerular mesangial cells. Here, immunofluorescence and confocal microscopy showed that alpha-actinin-1 exclusively distributed along mesangial cells in human glomeruli of IgA nephropathy. RT-PCR and Western blot further confirmed the expression of alpha-actinin-1 in primary cultured human mesangial cells. We also found that transforming growth factor-beta 1 (TGF-beta 1) stimulated ACTN1 gene transcription and that transiently transfected alpha-actinin-1 significantly increased TGF-beta 1-induced plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) promoter activity in human mesangial cells. These findings suggest that alpha-actinin-1 may play a role in human glomerular disease.
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- Chen Yang
- 8701 Watertown Plank Road, Milwaukee, WI 53226, USA.
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Bae EH, Kim IJ, Park JW, Ma SK, Choi KC, Lee JU, Kim SW. Altered Regulation of Renin-Angiotensin, Endothelin and Natriuretic Peptide Systems in Rat Kidney with Chronic Unilateral Ureteral Obstruction. Urol Int 2007; 79:170-6. [PMID: 17851289 DOI: 10.1159/000106333] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/20/2006] [Accepted: 10/20/2006] [Indexed: 11/19/2022]
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BACKGROUND The present study was designed to investigate the role of the local renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system (RAAS), endothelin (ET) and the natriuretic peptide system (NPS) for the development of renal fibrosis and progressive renal disease in experimental unilateral ureteral obstructed (UUO) rats. METHODS Male Sprague-Dawley rats (180-200 g) were unilaterally obstructed by ligation of the proximal ureters for 14 days. Control rats were treated in the same way, except that no ligature was made. The mRNA expressions of local renin-angiotensin system, aldosterone synthase (CYP11B2), ET-1 and NPS was determined in the cortex by real-time polymerase chain reaction. RESULTS Following the unilateral ureteral obstruction, the mRNA expressions of angiotensin-converting enzyme 1, ET-1 and transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) were increased, while angiotensin-converting enzyme 2 was decreased in the obstructed kidney compared with the controls. Angiotensin II type 1 receptor was decreased and TGF-beta1 was not changed in contralateral kidney compared with the controls. Atrial natriuretic peptide, brain natriuretic peptide, and C-type natriuretic peptide expressions were increased in UUO kidneys compared with the controls, while natriuretic peptide receptor-A was decreased in UUO kidneys. CONCLUSION The local RAAS and ET-1 was upregulated which may play a role in the progressive renal fibrosis in obstructed kidneys in rats with UUO. The enhanced activity of NPS in UUO kidney may play a role to compensate against progressive renal fibrosis in chronic obstructive uropathy.
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- Eun Hui Bae
- Department of Internal Medicine, Chonnam National University Medical School, Gwangju, Korea
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Taniguchi H, Kojima R, Sade H, Furuya M, Inomata N, Ito M. Involvement of MCP-1 in Tubulointerstitial Fibrosis Through Massive Proteinuria in Anti-GBM Nephritis Induced in WKY Rats. J Clin Immunol 2007; 27:409-29. [PMID: 17516154 DOI: 10.1007/s10875-007-9085-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/07/2006] [Accepted: 02/16/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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We investigated participation of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) in tubulointerstitial fibrosis and correlation between MCP-1 and proteinuria in Wistar-Kyoto (WKY) rats with glomerulonephritis induced by anti-glomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibody. WKY rats showed marked proteinuria and severe glomerular crescent formation at 7 days post antibody injection. At 28 days, tubulointerstitial fibrotic lesions were observed, followed by sustained heavy proteinuria and severe tubulointerstitial fibrosis at 56 days. Histological examination revealed that the overlapped immunoreactivities of MCP-1, rat albumin, and p65NF-kappaB were detected in the same tubular segments of nephritic kidney, and a significant positive correlation was observed between proteinuria and MCP-1 expression in the tubulointerstitial fibrosis. ED-1- and CD8-positive cells were also abundant, and there was a good correlation between monocyte/macrophage recruitment and MCP-1 expression in the tubulointerstitial area. These results suggest that MCP-1 participates in the progression of tubulointerstitial fibrosis, through massive albuminuria, which is accompanied by marked monocyte/macrophage recruitment.
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- Hajime Taniguchi
- Biomedical Research Laboratories, Daiichi Asubio Pharma Co., Ltd., Osaka, Japan
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Yang C, Patel K, Harding P, Sorokin A, Glass WF. Regulation of TGF-beta1/MAPK-mediated PAI-1 gene expression by the actin cytoskeleton in human mesangial cells. Exp Cell Res 2007; 313:1240-50. [PMID: 17328891 PMCID: PMC1896147 DOI: 10.1016/j.yexcr.2007.01.011] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/25/2006] [Revised: 01/10/2007] [Accepted: 01/11/2007] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The importance of transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) in plasminogen activator inhibitor-1 (PAI-1) gene expression has been established, but the precise intracellular mechanisms are not fully understood. Our hypothesis is that the actin cytoskeleton is involved in TGF-beta1/MAPK-mediated PAI-1 expression in human mesangial cells. Examination of the distributions of actin filaments (F-actin), alpha-actinin, extracellular signal-regulated kinase (ERK) and c-Jun N-terminal kinase (JNK) by immunofluorescence and immunoprecipitation revealed that ERK and JNK associate with alpha-actinin along F-actin and that TGF-beta1 stimulation promote the dissociation of ERK and JNK with F-actin. Disassembly of the actin cytoskeleton inhibited phosphorylation of ERK and JNK and modulated PAI-1 expression and promoter activity under both basal and TGF-beta1-stimulated conditions. Stabilizing actin prevented dephosphorylation of ERK and JNK. ERK and JNK inhibitors and overexpressed dominant negative mutants antagonized the ability of TGF-beta1 to increase PAI-1 expression and promoter activity. Disassembly of F-actin also inhibited AP-1 DNA binding activity as determined by electrophoretic mobility shift assay using AP-1 consensus oligonucleotides derived from human PAI-1 promoter. F-actin stabilization prevented loss of AP-1 DNA binding activity. Therefore, changes in actin cytoskeleton modulate the ability of TGF-beta1 to stimulate PAI-1 expression through a mechanism dependent on the activation of MAPK/AP-1 pathways.
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- Chen Yang
- Department of Pathology and Anatomy, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk, VA 23501, USA.
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L'Azou B, Dubus I, Ohayon-Courtès C, Cambar J. Human glomerular mesangial IP15 cell line as a suitable model for in vitro cadmium cytotoxicity studies. Cell Biol Toxicol 2006; 23:267-78. [PMID: 17180447 DOI: 10.1007/s10565-006-0888-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/06/2006] [Accepted: 10/30/2006] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Cadmium represents a major environmental pollutant that may induce severe damage, especially in the kidney where cadmium accumulates. While cadmium is known to severely impair renal tubular functions, glomerular structures are also potential targets. Owing to their contractile properties, glomerular mesangial cells play a major role in the control of glomerular hemodynamics and influence the ultrafiltration coefficient. Cell cultures provide alternative and fruitful models for study of in vitro toxicology. However, the use of primary human mesangial cell cultures is hampered by their limited survival span and their rapid dedifferentiation during passages. This study presents a human stable immortalized mesangial cell line, designated IP15. Cell characteristics were investigated by the detection of known mesangial markers, as well as their ability to contract in response to angiotensin II. IP15 cells were used to investigate cadmium uptake and morphological changes such as cell contraction and cytoskeleton protein expression. The IC(50) cytotoxicity index was obtained with 3.55 micromol/L using neutral red assay for 24 h. After cadmium exposure (1 micromol/L, determined as nonlethal concentration), 0.38 microg Cd/mg protein was internalized by the cells as evaluated by inductively coupled plasma optical emission spectrometry (ICP/OES). Cadmium induced a significant cell surface reduction that correlated with smooth-muscle alpha-actin disorganization. Thus, the IP15 cell line is a suitable model for study of in vitro cadmium cytotoxicity in mesangial cells and allows sufficient material to be obtained for future studies of the intracellular effects of cadmium exposure.
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- B L'Azou
- Laboratoire de Biologie Cellulaire, Université Victor Segalen - Bordeaux 2, 146 rue Léo-Saignat, 33076 Bordeaux, France.
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Fink SL, Cookson BT. Caspase-1-dependent pore formation during pyroptosis leads to osmotic lysis of infected host macrophages. Cell Microbiol 2006; 8:1812-25. [PMID: 16824040 DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2006.00751.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 768] [Impact Index Per Article: 42.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/10/2023]
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Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium invades host macrophages and induces a unique caspase-1-dependent pathway of cell death termed pyroptosis, which is activated during bacterial infection in vivo. We demonstrate DNA cleavage during pyroptosis results from caspase-1-stimulated nuclease activity. Although poly(ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP) activation by fragmented DNA depletes cellular ATP to cause lysis during oncosis, the rapid lysis characteristic of Salmonella-infected macrophages does not require PARP activity or DNA fragmentation. Membrane pores between 1.1 and 2.4 nm in diameter form during pyroptosis of host cells and cause swelling and osmotic lysis. Pore formation requires host cell actin cytoskeleton rearrangements and caspase-1 activity, as well as the bacterial type III secretion system (TTSS); however, insertion of functional TTSS translocons into the host membrane is not sufficient to directly evoke pore formation. Concurrent with pore formation, inflammatory cytokines are released from infected macrophages. This mechanism of caspase-1-mediated cell death provides additional experimental evidence supporting pyroptosis as a novel pathway of inflammatory programmed cell death.
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- Susan L Fink
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
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Lee S, Ahn SH, Baek SH, Song JH, Choo YK, Kwon OD, Choi BK, Jung KY. Modulation of cell proliferation and hypertrophy by gangliosides in cultured human glomerular mesangial cells. Arch Pharm Res 2005; 28:948-55. [PMID: 16178422 DOI: 10.1007/bf02973882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/21/2022]
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Glomerular mesangial cells (GMCs) in diverse renal diseases undergo cell proliferation and/or hypertrophy, and gangliosides have been reported to play an important role in modulating cell structure and function. This study compared the effects of transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) and the effects of the application of exogenous gangliosides on GMCs and investigated whether the application of exogenous gangliosides regulated cellular proliferation and hypertrophy. Human GMCs were cultured with exogenous gangliosides and TGF-beta1 in a media containing 10% fetal bovine serum and in a media without the fetal bovine serum. Exogenous gangliosides biphasically changed the proliferation of human GMCs (0.1-1.0 mg/mL). A low concentration (0.1 mg/mL) of gangliosides mainly increased the number of human GMCs, whereas cellular proliferation was significantly reduced by raising the concentration of exogenous gangliosides. TGF-beta1 greatly reduced the number of human GMCs in a concentration-dependent manner (1-10 ng/mL). Serum deprivation accelerated the gangliosides- and TGF-beta1-induced inhibition of mesangial cell proliferation to a greater extent. Gangliosides (1.0 mg/ mL) and TGF-beta1 (10 ng/mL) both caused a significant increase in the incorporation of [3H]leucine per cell in the serum-deprived condition, whereas it was completely reversed in serum-supplemented condition. Similar results to the [3H]leucine incorporation were also observed in the changes in cell size measured by flow cytometric analysis. These results show that exogenous gangliosides modulate cell proliferation and hypertrophy in cultured human GMCs, and these cellular responses were regulated differently based on whether the media contained serum or not. Results from the present study raise new possibilities about the potential involvement of gangliosides in the development of mesangial cell proliferation and hypertrophy.
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- Seoul Lee
- Department of Pharmacology, Wonkwang University School of Medicine, 334-2 Shinyongdong, Iksan, Jeonbuk 570-749, Korea
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Che Q, Carmines PK. Src family kinase involvement in rat preglomerular microvascular contractile and [Ca2+]i responses to ANG II. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2004; 288:F658-64. [PMID: 15572518 PMCID: PMC2570959 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00392.2004] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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Experiments were performed to investigate the potential role of Src family kinase(s) in the rat afferent arteriolar contractile response to ANG II. The in vitro blood-perfused juxtamedullary nephron technique was employed to monitor afferent arteriolar lumen diameter responses to 1-100 nM ANG II before and during Src family kinase inhibition (10 microM PP2). PP2 did not alter baseline diameter but attenuated ANG II-induced contractile responses by 33 +/- 6%. An inactive analog of PP2 (PP3) had no effect on ANG II-induced afferent arteriolar contraction. The effect of Src kinase inhibition on ANG II-induced intracellular free Ca(2+) concentration ([Ca(2+)](i)) responses was probed in fura 2-loaded preglomerular microvascular smooth muscle cells (PVSMCs) obtained from explants and studied after 3-5 days in culture. In untreated PVSMCs, ANG II evoked peak (Delta = 293 +/- 66 nM) and plateau (Delta = 23 +/- 8 nM) increases in [Ca(2+)](i). In PVSMCs pretreated with PP2, baseline [Ca(2+)](i) was unaltered, but both the peak (Delta = 140 +/- 22 nM) and plateau (Delta = 3 +/- 2 nM) phases of the ANG II response were significantly reduced compared with untreated cells. PP3 did not alter [Ca(2+)](i) responses to ANG II. Immunoprecipitation and Western blot analysis confirmed that 100 nM ANG II increased phosphorylation of c-Src (at Y(416)) in PVSMCs. The phosphorylation response was maximal 1 min after ANG II exposure and was prevented by PP2. We conclude that the preglomerular vasoconstriction evoked by ANG II involves rapid c-Src activation with subsequent effects that contribute to the [Ca(2+)](i) response to the peptide.
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- Qi Che
- Dept. of Cellular and Integrative Physiology, Univ. of Nebraska College of Medicine, 985850 Nebraska Medical Ctr., Omaha, NE 68198-5850, USA
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Beech DJ, Muraki K, Flemming R. Non-selective cationic channels of smooth muscle and the mammalian homologues of Drosophila TRP. J Physiol 2004; 559:685-706. [PMID: 15272031 PMCID: PMC1665181 DOI: 10.1113/jphysiol.2004.068734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 196] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/24/2004] [Accepted: 07/20/2004] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Throughout the body there are smooth muscle cells controlling a myriad of tubes and reservoirs. The cells show enormous diversity and complexity compounded by a plasticity that is critical in physiology and disease. Over the past quarter of a century we have seen that smooth muscle cells contain--as part of a gamut of ion-handling mechanisms--a family of cationic channels with significant permeability to calcium, potassium and sodium. Several of these channels are sensors of calcium store depletion, G-protein-coupled receptor activation, membrane stretch, intracellular Ca2+, pH, phospholipid signals and other factors. Progress in understanding the channels has, however, been hampered by a paucity of specific pharmacological agents and difficulty in identifying the underlying genes. In this review we summarize current knowledge of these smooth muscle cationic channels and evaluate the hypothesis that the underlying genes are homologues of Drosophila TRP (transient receptor potential). Direct evidence exists for roles of TRPC1, TRPC4/5, TRPC6, TRPV2, TRPP1 and TRPP2, and more are likely to be added soon. Some of these TRP proteins respond to a multiplicity of activation signals--promiscuity of gating that could enable a variety of context-dependent functions. We would seem to be witnessing the first phase of the molecular delineation of these cationic channels, something that should prove a leap forward for strategies aimed at developing new selective pharmacological agents and understanding the activation mechanisms and functions of these channels in physiological systems.
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- D J Beech
- School of Biomedical Sciences, University of Leeds, LS2 9JT, UK.
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Nagamatsu T, Oka T, Nagao T, Suzuki Y. Effects of KD3-671, an angiotensin II type 1 receptor antagonist, on anti-thy-1 nephritis in rats. Biol Pharm Bull 2003; 26:808-12. [PMID: 12808291 DOI: 10.1248/bpb.26.808] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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We examined the effects of KD3-671 (2-propyl-8-oxo-1-[(2'-(H-tetrazole-5-yl)biphenyl-4-yl)methyl]-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrocycloheptimidazole), an angiotensin II type1 receptor antagonist, on an experimental rat model of mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis, anti-Thy-1 nephritis. Anti-Thy-1 nephritis was induced by intravenous injection of 300 microg/kg of anti-Thy-1.1 monoclonal antibody into rats. KD3-671 (3, 10, 30 mg/kg per day) or enalapril (30 mg/kg per day), an angiotensin II converting enzyme inhibitor, was given p.o. once daily from the day before the antibody injection (the 1st day) to the 15th day after. KD3-671 significantly inhibited an increase in the number of total and proliferating cell nuclear antigen-positive cells and the deposition of alpha-smooth muscle actin and fibronectin in the glomeruli of nephritic rats, but enalapril (30 mg/kg per day) suppressed only the number of total cells and the deposition of alpha-smooth muscle actin in the glomeruli. Moreover, to elucidate the effect of KD3-671 on matrix deposition in the glomeruli, we measured the production of fibronectin in isolated glomeruli obtained from anti-Thy-1 nephritic rats. The glomeruli in anti-Thy-1 nephritic rats produced more fibronectin than that in control rats. KD3-671 (10(-8), 10(-7), 10(-6) M) dose-dependently attenuated fibronectin production in isolated nephritic glomeruli. These findings suggest that KD3-671 may be an effective agent for the treatment of mesangioproliferative glomerulonephritis.
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- Tadashi Nagamatsu
- Department of Pharmacology, Faculty of Pharmacy, Meijo University, 150 Yagotoyama, Tenpaku-ku, Nagoya 468-8503, Japan.
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Patel K, Harding P, Haney LB, Glass WF. Regulation of the mesangial cell myofibroblast phenotype by actin polymerization. J Cell Physiol 2003; 195:435-45. [PMID: 12704653 DOI: 10.1002/jcp.10267] [Citation(s) in RCA: 31] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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Mesangial cells in diverse glomerular diseases become myofibroblast-like, characterized by activation of smooth muscle alpha-actin (alpha-SMA) expression. In cultured mesangial cells, serum-deprivation markedly increases alpha-SMA expression, cell size, and stress fiber formation. Since stress fibers are assembled from actin monomers, we investigated the hypothesis that alterations in stress fiber formation regulate alpha-SMA expression and hypertrophy. Human mesangial cells were treated with agents that disrupt or stabilize actin stress fibers. Depolymerization of actin stress fibers in serum-deprived cells with actin-depolymerizing agents, cytochalasin B (CytB) and latrunculin B (LatB), or with inhibitors of Rho-kinase, Y-27632 and HA-1077 decreased alpha-SMA mRNA as judged by Northern blot analysis. Western blot analysis showed that CytB also reduced alpha-SMA protein levels. In serum-fed cells, agents that stabilized actin stress fibers, jasplakinolide (Jas) and phalloidin, increased alpha-SMA mRNA and protein. Treatment of human or rat mesangial cells with CytB, LatB, or Y-27632 decreased alpha-SMA promoter activity. In contrast, Jas increased promoter activity 5.6-fold in rat mesangial cells. The presence of an RNA polymerase inhibitor blocked degradation of alpha-SMA mRNA in cells treated with CytB suggesting that destabilization of this message is dependent on a newly transcribed or rapidly degraded factor. Inhibition of actin polymerization by CytB, LatB, Y-27623, and HA-1077 inhibited incorporation of (3)[H]-leucine into newly synthesized protein. Additionally, CytB and LatB decreased cell volume as determined by flow cytometry. Collectively, these results indicate that the state of polymerization of the actin cytoskeleton regulates alpha-SMA expression, hypertrophy, and myofibroblast differentiation in mesangial cells.
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- Keyur Patel
- Department of Pathology and Anatomy, Eastern Virginia Medical School, Norfolk 23501, USA
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Abbate M, Zoja C, Morigi M, Rottoli D, Angioletti S, Tomasoni S, Zanchi C, Longaretti L, Donadelli R, Remuzzi G. Transforming growth factor-beta1 is up-regulated by podocytes in response to excess intraglomerular passage of proteins: a central pathway in progressive glomerulosclerosis. THE AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY 2002; 161:2179-93. [PMID: 12466133 PMCID: PMC1850904 DOI: 10.1016/s0002-9440(10)64495-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 111] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Chronic diseases of the kidney have a progressive course toward organ failure. Common pathway mechanisms of progressive injury, irrespectively of the etiology of the underlying diseases, include glomerular capillary hypertension and enhanced passage of plasma proteins across the glomerular capillary barrier because of impaired permselective function. These changes are associated with podocyte injury and glomerular sclerosis. Direct evidence for causal roles is lacking, particularly for the link between intraglomerular protein deposition and sclerosing reaction. Because transforming growth factor-beta1 (TGF-beta1) is the putative central mediator of scarring, we hypothesized that TGF-beta1 can be up-regulated by protein overload of podocytes thereby contributing to sclerosis. In rats with renal mass reduction, protein accumulation in podocytes as a consequence of enhanced transcapillary passage preceded podocyte dedifferentiation and injury, increase in TGF-beta1 expression in podocytes, and TGF-beta1-dependent activation of mesangial cells. Angiotensin-converting enzyme inhibitor prevented both accumulation of plasma proteins and TGF-beta1 overexpression in podocytes and sclerosis. Albumin load on podocytes in vitro caused loss of the synaptopodin differentiation marker and enhanced TGF-beta1 mRNA and protein. Conditioned medium of albumin-stimulated podocytes induced a sclerosing phenotype in mesangial cells, an effect mimicked by TGF-beta1 and blocked by anti-TGF-beta1 antibodies. Thus, the passage of excess plasma proteins across the glomerular capillary wall is the trigger of podocyte dysfunction and of a TGF-beta1-mediated mechanism underlying sclerosis. Agents to reduce TGF-beta1, possibly combined with angiotensin blockade, should have priority in novel approaches to treatment of progressive nephropathies.
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- Mauro Abbate
- Mario Negri Institute for Pharmacological Research, Via Gavazzeni 11, 24125 Bergamo, Italy.
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Dubus I, Vendrely B, Christophe I, Labouyrie JP, Delmas Y, Bonnet J, Combe C. Mycophenolic acid antagonizes the activation of cultured human mesangial cells. Kidney Int 2002; 62:857-67. [PMID: 12164867 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2002.00514.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 68] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Activation of mesangial cells is observed in several forms of chronic renal disease, and in culture conditions upon stimulation by fetal calf serum (FCS), or agonists such as transforming growth factor beta (TGF-beta). Mycophenolate mofetil (MMF), the precursor of mycophenolic acid (MPA), is currently used in organ transplantation and has been shown to be protective in clinical and experimental glomerulonephritis. This study assessed the effects of MPA on markers of human mesangial cells (HMC) activation. METHODS Primary cultures of HMC and of an immortalized HMC clone (IP15 cells characterized in this report) were stimulated either by FCS or by TGF-beta, and treated by MPA at clinically relevant concentrations (1 to 10 micromol/L) for 24 hours to 14 days. HMC proliferation, smooth muscle alpha-actin (SMA), collagen type I alpha-1 chain (coll I) and fibronectin synthesis were used as markers of HMC phenotypic activation. RESULTS Exposure of HMC to MPA inhibited proliferation induced by FCS without cytotoxicity. MPA counteracted the stimulatory effects of FCS and TGF-beta on coll I mRNA and protein and fibronectin protein. SMA expression was increased upon exposure to MPA, without cell hypertrophy. CONCLUSION Treatment of cultured HMC with MPA inhibited mesangial cell proliferation and matrix production induced by stimulation with either FCS or TGF-beta. Such mechanisms may contribute to the favorable effects of treatment using mycophenolate mofetil in chronic fibrotic kidney diseases, including chronic allograft rejection.
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- Isabelle Dubus
- Unité INSERM 441 Avenue du Haut Lévêque, 33600 Pessac, France.
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Kasuga H, Ito Y, Sakamoto S, Kawachi H, Shimizu F, Yuzawa Y, Matsuo S. Effects of anti-TGF-beta type II receptor antibody on experimental glomerulonephritis. Kidney Int 2001; 60:1745-55. [PMID: 11703592 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.00990.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 45] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Renal fibrosis, characterized by the accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM), is a common histopathological feature of progressive renal disease of diverse etiology. Interaction between transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) and TGF-beta type II receptor (TGF-betaIIR) may play an important role in the ongoing fibrotic process. TGF-betaIIR and TGF-beta have been reported to be up-regulated in human glomerulopathies. In order to block the TGF-beta system, many studies have inhibited TGF-beta itself, but not its receptors. Our study explored the effects of fully human monoclonal antibody against TGF-betaIIR (hTGF-betaIIRAb) on experimental proliferative glomerulonephritis. METHODS hTGF-betaIIRAb was generated from Xenomice. The expression of TGF-betaIIR was studied by immunohistochemistry in normal and anti-Thy-1 nephritis rats. hTGF-betaIIRAb or control Ab was injected intraperitoneally at day 0 and day 4 of anti-Thy-1 nephritis, and rats were sacrificed at day 7. Effects of hTGF-betaIIRAb were assessed by histological and immunopathological measurements. RESULTS The specificity of hTGF-betaIIRAb was confirmed by ELISA and Western blot analysis. By immunostaining, TGF-betaIIR expression was up-regulated in the proliferative lesions of anti-Thy-1 nephritis at day 7. In the hTGF-betaIIRAb-treated group, the extent of mesangial expansion was less than that in the control group. By immunohistology, alpha-smooth muscle actin, fibronectin-EDA, and type I collagen were significantly reduced in the hTGF-betaIIRAb-treated group. CONCLUSIONS Anti-TGF-betaIIR antibody ameliorated ECM accumulation in anti-Thy-1 nephritis. Our data suggest that TGF-betaIIR may be one of the therapeutic targets, and that fully human monoclonal antibody against TGF-betaIIR may have a new therapeutic potential for renal fibrosis.
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- H Kasuga
- Division of Nephrology, Internal Medicine III, Nagoya University School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, Nagoya 466-8550, Aichi, Japan
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Blom IE, van Dijk AJ, Wieten L, Duran K, Ito Y, Kleij L, deNichilo M, Rabelink TJ, Weening JJ, Aten J, Goldschmeding R. In vitro evidence for differential involvement of CTGF, TGFbeta, and PDGF-BB in mesangial response to injury. Nephrol Dial Transplant 2001; 16:1139-48. [PMID: 11390712 DOI: 10.1093/ndt/16.6.1139] [Citation(s) in RCA: 100] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/14/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Connective tissue growth factor (CTGF) is a profibrotic growth factor, which is upregulated in wound healing and renal fibrosis, including anti-Thy-1.1 nephritis. The kinetics of CTGF mRNA expression in anti-Thy-1.1 nephritis suggested that CTGF regulation might contribute to glomerular response to injury downstream of transforming growth factor-beta (TGFbeta). In anti-Thy-1.1 nephritis the initial damage is followed by mesangial repair and limited sclerosis, which involves mesangial cell (MC) activation (alpha-smooth-muscle actin (alphaSMA) expression), proliferation, migration, and extracellular matrix production. The present in vitro study addresses the possible role of CTGF in these different aspects of mesangial response to injury, and how CTGF activity might relate to effects of TGFbeta and platelet-derived growth factor-BB (PDGF-BB). METHODS AND RESULTS Immunostaining and ELISA showed that alphaSMA expression and transformation of MC into myofibroblast-like cells was induced by TGFbeta, but not affected by PDGF-BB, CTGF, or neutralizing anti-CTGF antibodies. [(3)H]thymidine incorporation and Ki67 staining demonstrated that, unlike PDGF-BB, neither CTGF nor TGFbeta induced the proliferation of MC. In contrast, both CTGF and TGFbeta induced MC migration, as evidenced by approximation of wound edges in scrape-wounded, non-proliferating rat MC monolayers. In addition, fibronectin expression was upregulated by both CTGF and TGFbeta, as measured by dot-blot analysis. Anti-CTGF completely blocked the effect of added CTGF. Moreover, anti-CTGF significantly reduced TGFbeta-induced increase in fibronectin. CONCLUSION It thus appears that CTGF is specifically involved in a subset of the adaptive changes of MC involved in mesangial repair and sclerosis, which makes it an interesting candidate target for future intervention strategies.
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- I E Blom
- Department of Pathology, University Medical Center Utrecht, Heidelberglaan 100, 3584 CX Utrecht, The Netherlands
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Shreiber DI, Enever PA, Tranquillo RT. Effects of pdgf-bb on rat dermal fibroblast behavior in mechanically stressed and unstressed collagen and fibrin gels. Exp Cell Res 2001; 266:155-66. [PMID: 11339834 DOI: 10.1006/excr.2001.5208] [Citation(s) in RCA: 53] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The dose-response effects of platelet-derived growth factor BB (PDGF-BB) on rat dermal fibroblast (RDF) behavior in mechanically stressed and unstressed type I collagen and fibrin were investigated using quantitative assays developed in our laboratory. In chemotaxis experiments, RDFs responded optimally (P < 0.05) to a gradient of 10 ng/ml PDGF-BB in both collagen and fibrin. In separate experiments, the migration of RDFs and the traction exerted by RDFs in the presence of PDGF-BB (0, 0.1, 1, 10, or 100 ng/ml) were assessed simultaneously in the presence or absence of stress. RDF migration increased significantly (P < 0.05) at doses of 10 and 100 ng/ml PDGF-BB in collagen and fibrin in the presence and absence of stress. In contrast, the effects of PDGF-BB on RDF traction depended on the gel type and stress state. PDGF-BB decreased fibroblast traction in stressed collagen, but increased traction in unstressed collagen (P < 0.05). No statistical conclusion could be inferred for stressed fibrin, but increasing PDGF-BB decreased traction in unstressed fibrin (P < 0.05). These results demonstrate the complex response of fibroblasts to environmental cues and suggest that mechanical resistance to compaction may be a crucial element in dictating fibroblast behavior.
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- D I Shreiber
- Departments of Chemical Engineering and Materials Science, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, 55455
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Magro G, Perris R, Romeo R, Marcello M, Lopes M, Vasquez E, Grasso S. Comparative immunohistochemical analysis of the expression of cytokeratins, vimentin and alpha-smooth muscle actin in human foetal mesonephros and metanephros. THE HISTOCHEMICAL JOURNAL 2001; 33:221-6. [PMID: 11550803 DOI: 10.1023/a:1017950425012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/12/2022]
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The human mesonephros is currently regarded as a simplified version of the foetal metanephros, primarily due to the close morphological resemblance between these two structures. The aim of the present study was to define whether human mesonephric and foetal metanephric nephrons share immunophenotypical traits in their corresponding structures (glomeruli, proximal and distal tubules). For this purpose we first investigated immunohistochemically the overall expression and topographical distribution of cytokeratins 7, 8, 18, 19, and 20, vimentin and alpha-smooth muscle actin in mature mesonephric nephrons and compared the results with those obtained in maturing-stage foetal metanephric nephrons. No expression of cytokeratins 7 and 20 was found. Cytokeratins 8, 18, and 19 and vimentin showed a restricted and basically coincident expression along the different components of both mesonephric and metanephric nephrons. These findings indicate that the intermediate filament protein profile of human mature mesonephric nephrons closely recapitulates that observed in developing metanephros and thereby strengthens the concept that human mesonephros, a transient ontogenic structure, is largely similar to the foetal metanephros. The sole difference between human mesonephros and foetal metanephros was the divergent expression of alpha-smooth muscle actin. This protein exhibited an increasingly accentuated mesangial expression paralleling the morphological maturation of metanephric glomerulus, whereas it was absent from the mesonephric one. This would suggest that the mesangial cells in these two renal structures have a different function during the foetal life.
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- G Magro
- Institute of Anatomic Pathology, University of Catania, Italy
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Petkova V, Romanowski MJ, Sulijoadikusumo I, Rohne D, Kang P, Shenk T, Usheva A. Interaction between YY1 and the retinoblastoma protein. Regulation of cell cycle progression in differentiated cells. J Biol Chem 2001; 276:7932-6. [PMID: 11118439 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m007411200] [Citation(s) in RCA: 69] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Overexpression of the transcription factor YY1 activates DNA synthesis in differentiated primary human coronary artery smooth muscle cells. Overexpression of the retinoblastoma protein together with YY1 blocked this effect. In growth-arrested cells, YY1 resides in a complex with the retinoblastoma protein, but the complex is not detected in serum-stimulated S phase cultures, indicating that the interaction of the retinoblastoma protein and YY1 is cell cycle-regulated. Recombinant retinoblastoma protein directly interacts with YY1, destabilizing the interaction of YY1 with DNA and inhibiting its transcription initiator function in vitro. We conclude that in differentiated cells elevation of the nuclear level of YY1 protein favors progression into the S phase, and we propose that this activity is regulated by its interaction with the retinoblastoma protein.
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- V Petkova
- Department of Medicine, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachuttes 02215, USA
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Grupp C, Troche I, Klass C, Köhler M, Müller GA. A novel model to study renal myofibroblast formation in vitro. Kidney Int 2001; 59:543-53. [PMID: 11168936 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.059002543.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/16/2023]
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BACKGROUND In chronic renal disease, the decrease of excretory renal function closely correlates with the extent of interstitial fibrosis. A common feature of interstitial fibrosis is the occurrence of myofibroblasts, which are regarded as the predominant cells in matrix synthesis. We studied the transformation of renal fibroblasts into myofibroblasts in vitro as a model to elucidate the mechanisms underlying this process. METHODS Primary cultures of freshly isolated rat inner medullary fibroblasts were established as reported previously. mRNA expression of myofibroblast markers and interstitial collagens was examined by Northern blot and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR). Phenotypic expression was investigated by immunolabeling. Endogenous transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-beta) production was inhibited by addition of a neutralizing antibody or by TGF-beta 1 antisense oligodeoxynucleotides (ODNs). RESULTS Initially and during the first 36 hours, primary culture cells expressed neither alpha-smooth muscle actin nor desmin mRNA. From day 2 of primary culture, we observed a strong increase in these mRNAs, as evaluated by RT-PCR, followed by the phenotypic expression of these myofibroblast markers. Collagen type I mRNA was first detectable from day 4 of primary culture and showed a strong increase in its expression level during the following days, with phenotypic expression predominantly in myofibroblasts. The transformation rate of fibroblasts to myofibroblasts largely decreased in cocultures with collecting duct cells. This effect could be reversed by reducing the seeding density. We examined in this system the effect of TGF-beta 1 to define further its putative fibrogenic activity. However, neither the addition of exogenous TGF-beta 1 nor the inhibition of endogenous TGF-beta production showed any significant effect on fibroblast transformation, suggesting that this cytokine exerts its effects at other levels or requires a cofactor. CONCLUSIONS We present a novel model to examine the de novo expression of myofibroblast markers and collagen type I in freshly isolated fibroblasts under defined conditions in primary culture. This model could provide a strategy for the molecular characterization of myofibroblast formation and the phenomena associated with this process.
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- C Grupp
- Abteilung Nephrologie und Rheumatologie, Georg-August-Universität, Göttingen, Germany.
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Kagami S, Kondo S, Urushihara M, Löster K, Reutter W, Saijo T, Kitamura A, Kobayashi S, Kuroda Y. Overexpression of alpha1beta1 integrin directly affects rat mesangial cell behavior. Kidney Int 2000; 58:1088-97. [PMID: 10972673 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2000.00266.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 24] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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BACKGROUND Glomerular mesangial cell (MC) proliferation, hypertrophy, and abnormal matrix remodeling characterized by increased expression of fibronectin, laminin and collagen type IV, and neoexpression of collagen I and III are the main biological features of progressive glomerulonephritis (GN). Especially, persistent pathological matrix remodeling may lead to glomerular scar formation (glomerular scarring). We reported recently that alpha1beta1 integrin, a major collagen receptor for MCs, may be a potential adhesion molecule for MC-mediated pathological collagen matrix remodeling in GN. METHODS To address further the direct role of alpha1beta1 integrin in MC behavior, such as cell growth and matrix remodeling, alpha1beta1 integrin was overexpressed in MCs by transfecting an expression vector containing a full-length rat alpha1 integrin cDNA. Flow cytometry and immunoprecipitation analysis were applied for selection of transfectants with a stable expression of the alpha1 integrin subunit. The effect of alpha1beta1 integrin overexpression on MC biology was examined with a 3H-thymidine incorporation assay, flow cytometric analysis of cell size and DNA content, Western blot analysis of a cyclin-dependent-kinase inhibitor, p27Kip1, alpha-smooth muscle actin expression, and a collagen gel contraction assay. RESULTS The alpha1 transfectants displayed a dramatic inhibition of 3H-thymidine incorporation as compared with the mock transfectants. Increased expression of the alpha1 subunit inversely correlated with cell cycle progression and paralleled the expression of p27Kip1 and alpha-smooth muscle actin, as well as the cell size in MCs. In addition, the alpha1-transfectants were able to enhance collagen matrix reorganization effectively. CONCLUSION These results indicate that MC-alpha1beta1 integrin expression is a critical determinant of MC phenotypes, including cell growth, cell size, and collagen matrix remodeling ability, and thereby contributes to scar matrix remodeling (sclerosis) in GN.
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- S Kagami
- Department of Pediatrics, School of Medicine, University of Tokushima, Tokushima, Japan, and Institute für Molekularbiologie und Biochemi, Freie Universitat Berlin, Berlin-Dahlem, Germany.
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Regardless of the source of injury, an imbalance in the control of mesangial cell proliferation appears to play a direct role in the degree of progressive renal injury and glomerulosclerosis. Some of the regulatory mechanisms include specific soluble or non-soluble extracellular factors and a complex array of receptor-mediated signals that control the progression of the cell cycle or cell death. Understanding these regulatory processes could lead to novel therapeutic strategies to alleviate or arrest proliferative glomerular disease.
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- Medizinische Klinik IV, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Erlangen, Germany
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