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DeWolf SE, Shigeoka AA, Scheinok A, Kasimsetty SG, Welch AK, McKay DB. Expression of TLR2, NOD1, and NOD2 and the NLRP3 Inflammasome in Renal Tubular Epithelial Cells of Male versus Female Mice. Nephron Clin Pract 2017; 137:68-76. [PMID: 28614830 DOI: 10.1159/000456016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 01/03/2017] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND Gender-biased outcomes are associated with acute kidney injury (AKI) and human and animal studies have shown that females are preferentially protected from renal ischemia. However, the reason for this is not known. One clue might lie with pattern recognition receptors (PRRs), which are triggers of ischemic injury when ligated by molecules in the ischemic milieu. Several PRR families are expressed by renal tubular epithelial cells (RTEs) and incite cell death signaling and production of pro-inflammatory molecules. Blockade of specific PRRs (e.g., TLR2, NOD1, NOD2, and NLRP3) provides highly significant protection from ischemic RTE injury. As a first step to understand gender-biased outcomes of AKI, we tested whether constitutive gender-based differences exist in expression of these PRRS in RTEs. METHODS To determine whether PRR expression differences exist, primary RTEs isolated from male and female WT kidneys were examined by FACS, qPCR, and Western Blot for expression of TLR2, NOD1, NOD2, and NLRP3 inflammasome components. RESULTS No RTE gender-based differences in TLR2, NOD1, NOD2, NLRP3, or ASC were found. RTEs from female kidneys had approximately half the mRNA, but the same protein concentration of pro-caspase-1 compared to RTEs isolated from male kidneys. CONCLUSIONS Our findings indicate that intrinsic gender differences in RTE expression of TLR2, NOD1, NOD2, NLRP3, and ASC are not responsible for the gender-biased outcomes observed in ischemia/reperfusion injury. The lower caspase-1 mRNA expression in RTEs from females warrants further exploration of additional upstream signals that might differentially regulate caspase-1 in male vs. female RTEs.
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- Sean E DeWolf
- Division of Nephrology/Hypertension, Department of Medicine, University of California San Diego, La Jolla, CA, USA
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Zhao X, Sun B, Liu Y, Zhang D, Liu Z, Zhao X, Gu Q, Han C, Dong X, Che N, An J, Zheng Y, Liu T. Linearly Patterned Programmed Cell Necrosis Induced by Chronic Hypoxia Plays a Role in Melanoma Angiogenesis. J Cancer 2016; 7:22-31. [PMID: 26722356 PMCID: PMC4679377 DOI: 10.7150/jca.12917] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/10/2015] [Accepted: 09/07/2015] [Indexed: 01/03/2023] Open
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Background: Highly aggressive tumors are exposed to hypoxia and increased tumor interstitial fluid pressure (IFP) conditions which is resistant to blood supply. Physiological responses of the organism may reduce IFP through induction of orderly cell death. Specific aims: This study demonstrates that orderly cell death provided spatial structure for early angiogenesis in the hypoxic, high-IFP tumor microenvironment and the participation of linearly patterned programmed cell necrosis (LPPCN) in nascent melanoma angiogenesis. Methods: Animal model, laser capture microdissection, wound healing and transwell assays, three-dimensional cultures, zymography assays, western-blotting analysis, immunohistochemistry and RT-PCR were performed. Results: This study demonstrated a special form of cell death occurring in groups of malignant tumor cells which arrayed in lines. Both features of apoptosis and necrosis can be found in this cell death pattern and were termed as LPPCN. Its role as a stimulus of tumor angiogenesis was investigated using human melanoma samples and an animal model. Computer image analysis showed that LPPCN and tumor microvessels had identical spatial distributions. It can be induced by chronic hypoxia, high IFP and subsequent calcium influx. Higher number of tumor associated macrophages (TAM) and VEGF expression were found in the tumor with LPPCN. Based on the tumor-bearing animal model, it was found that block of caspase pathway inhibited LPPCN, microvessel density and vasculogenic mimicry (VM). Conclusions: LPPCN formation may play an important role in tumor angiogenesis due to stimulation of macrophage infiltration and HIF-1α regulation, and that inhibition of LPPCN may be a novel therapeutic strategy against tumor angiogenesis and metastasis.
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- Xiulan Zhao
- 1. Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University ; 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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- 1. Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University ; 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University ; 3. Department of Pathology, Cancer Hospital of Tianjin Medical University
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- 1. Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University ; 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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- 1. Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University ; 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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- 3. Department of Pathology, Cancer Hospital of Tianjin Medical University
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- 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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- 1. Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University ; 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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- 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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- 1. Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University ; 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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- 1. Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University ; 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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- 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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- 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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- 1. Department of Pathology, General Hospital of Tianjin Medical University ; 2. Department of Pathology, Tianjin Medical University
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Garcia-Belinchón M, Sánchez-Osuna M, Martínez-Escardó L, Granados-Colomina C, Pascual-Guiral S, Iglesias-Guimarais V, Casanelles E, Ribas J, Yuste VJ. An Early and Robust Activation of Caspases Heads Cells for a Regulated Form of Necrotic-like Cell Death. J Biol Chem 2015; 290:20841-20855. [PMID: 26124276 DOI: 10.1074/jbc.m115.644179] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2015] [Indexed: 11/06/2022] Open
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Apoptosis is triggered by the activation of caspases and characterized by chromatin condensation and nuclear fragmentation (type II nuclear morphology). Necrosis is depicted by a gain in cell volume (oncosis), swelling of organelles, plasma membrane leakage, and subsequent loss of intracellular contents. Although considered as different cell death entities, there is an overlap between apoptosis and necrosis. In this sense, mounting evidence suggests that both processes can be morphological expressions of a common biochemical network known as "apoptosis-necrosis continuum." To gain insight into the events driving the apoptosis-necrosis continuum, apoptotically proficient cells were screened facing several apoptotic inducers for the absence of type II apoptotic nuclear morphologies. Chelerythrine was selected for further studies based on its cytotoxicity and the lack of apoptotic nuclear alterations. Chelerythrine triggered an early plasma membrane leakage without condensed chromatin aggregates. Ultrastructural analysis revealed that chelerythrine-mediated cytotoxicity was compatible with a necrotic-like type of cell death. Biochemically, chelerythrine induced the activation of caspases. Moreover, the inhibition of caspases prevented chelerythrine-triggered necrotic-like cell death. Compared with staurosporine, chelerythrine induced stronger caspase activation detectable at earlier times. After using a battery of chemicals, we found that high concentrations of thiolic antioxidants fully prevented chelerythrine-driven caspase activation and necrotic-like cell death. Lower amounts of thiolic antioxidants partially prevented chelerythrine-mediated cytotoxicity and allowed cells to display type II apoptotic nuclear morphology correlating with a delay in caspase-3 activation. Altogether, these data support that an early and pronounced activation of caspases can drive cells to undergo a form of necrotic-like regulated cell death.
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- Mercè Garcia-Belinchón
- Cell Death, Senescence and Survival group, Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular-Unitat de Medicina and Institut de Neurociències, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cell Death, Senescence and Survival group, Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular-Unitat de Medicina and Institut de Neurociències, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cell Death, Senescence and Survival group, Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular-Unitat de Medicina and Institut de Neurociències, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cell Death, Senescence and Survival group, Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular-Unitat de Medicina and Institut de Neurociències, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cell Death, Senescence and Survival group, Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular-Unitat de Medicina and Institut de Neurociències, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cell Death, Senescence and Survival group, Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular-Unitat de Medicina and Institut de Neurociències, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cell Death, Senescence and Survival group, Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular-Unitat de Medicina and Institut de Neurociències, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain
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- Cell death regulation by non-coding RNA group, Pharmacology Unit, Departament de Medicina Experimental, Universitat de Lleida/Institut de Recerca Biomèdica de Lleida, Avinguda Rovira Roure 80, 25198 Lleida, Spain
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- Cell Death, Senescence and Survival group, Departament de Bioquímica i Biologia Molecular-Unitat de Medicina and Institut de Neurociències, Facultat de Medicina, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain; Centro de Investigación Biomédica en Red sobre Enfermedades Neurodegenerativas (CIBERNED), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Campus de Bellaterra, 08193 Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
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Jana S, Patra K, Mukherjee G, Bhattacharjee S, Mandal DP. Antitumor potential of anethole singly and in combination with cyclophosphamide in murine Sarcoma-180 transplantable tumor model. RSC Adv 2015. [DOI: 10.1039/c5ra07230a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022] Open
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Coupling anethole with cyclophosphamide reduces side effect of the latter and enhances apoptosis–necrosis ratio in murine s-180 tumor model.
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- Samarjit Jana
- Department of Zoology
- West Bengal State University
- Kolkata-700126
- India
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- Department of Zoology
- West Bengal State University
- Kolkata-700126
- India
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Lee DW, Faubel S, Edelstein CL. A pan caspase inhibitor decreases caspase-1, IL-1α and IL-1β, and protects against necrosis of cisplatin-treated freshly isolated proximal tubules. Ren Fail 2014; 37:144-50. [PMID: 25310769 DOI: 10.3109/0886022x.2014.970194] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Caspase-1, IL-1α, and IL-1β are known to be activated in the NLRP3 inflammasome. The inflammasome is activated mostly in inflammatory cells. The presence of inflammasome proteins in proximal tubules (PTs) and the effect of cisplatin-treatment or caspase inhibition on inflammasome proteins in PTs are not known. The aim of this study was to investigate the effect of cisplatin on inflammasome proteins in freshly isolated PTs and also to determine the effect of caspase inhibition on inflammasome proteins and PT injury. PTs were isolated using collagenase digestion and Percoll centrifugation. After recovery period, freshly isolated PTs were incubated with vehicle, 50 µM cisplatin or 50 µM cisplatin plus 50 µM pan caspase inhibitor, QVD-OPH. PTs treated with 50 µM cisplatin showed Propidium Iodide staining indicative of necrosis. Necrotic cells (%) were 2.2 in Vehicle-treated, 37.7 in Cisplatin-treated (p < 0.05 vs. Vehicle), and 3.3 in QVD-treated (p < 0.05 vs. Cisplatin). LDH release (%), a marker of cell membrane damage seen in necrosis was 7.1 in Vehicle-treated, 39.7 in Cisplatin-treated (p < 0.05 vs. Vehicle), and 13.5 in QVD-treated (p < 0.05 vs. Cisplatin). Caspase-1 activity and active caspase-1 protein (10 kDa) were significantly increased in Cisplatin-treated PTs. NLRP3 was strongly expressed in PTs, but there were no significant changes between groups. Pro-apoptotic BID (22 kDa) was unchanged between groups. IL-1α and IL-1β activity was increased in Cisplatin-treated PTs. QVD-OPH co-treatment decreased caspase-1, IL-1α, and IL-1β. In summary, caspase inhibition decreases caspase-1, IL-1α, and IL-1β but not NLRP3 or BID protein and protects against necrosis in cisplatin-treated freshly isolated PTs.
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- Dong Won Lee
- Department of Internal Medicine, Pusan National University School of Medicine , Busan , Korea and
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Lindoso RS, Collino F, Bruno S, Araujo DS, Sant'Anna JF, Tetta C, Provero P, Quesenberry PJ, Vieyra A, Einicker-Lamas M, Camussi G. Extracellular vesicles released from mesenchymal stromal cells modulate miRNA in renal tubular cells and inhibit ATP depletion injury. Stem Cells Dev 2014; 23:1809-19. [PMID: 24669934 DOI: 10.1089/scd.2013.0618] [Citation(s) in RCA: 103] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/06/2023] Open
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The mechanisms involved in renal repair by mesenchymal stromal cells (MSCs) are not entirely elucidated. The paracrine secretion of bioactive molecules has been implicated in the protective effects. Besides soluble mediators, MSCs have been shown to release extracellular vesicles (EVs), involved in renal repair process for different injury models. EVs have been shown to mediate communication between cells through the transference of several molecules, like protein, bioactive lipids, mRNA, and microRNAs (miRNAs). The miRNAs are noncoding RNAs that posttranscriptionally modulate gene expression and are involved in the regulation of several cellular processes, including those related to repair. The aim of the present study was to investigate the role of MSC-EVs in the modulation of miRNAs inside renal proximal tubular epithelial cells (PTECs) in an in vitro model of ischemia-reperfusion injury induced by ATP depletion. In this model we evaluated whether changes in miRNA expression were dependent on direct miRNA transfer or on transcription induction by MSC-EVs. The obtained results showed an enhanced incorporation of MSC-EVs in injured PTECs with protection from cell death. This biological effect was associated with EV-mediated miRNA transfer and with transcriptional modulation of miRNAs expressed by injured PTECs. Prediction of miRNA targets showed that miRNAs modulated in PTECs are involved in process of renal recovery with downregulation of coding-mRNAs associated with apoptosis, cytoskeleton reorganization, and hypoxia, such as CASP3 and 7, SHC1 and SMAD4. In conclusion, these results indicate that MSC-EVs may transfer and modulate the expression of several miRNAs involved in the repair and recovery process in PTECs.
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- Rafael S Lindoso
- 1 Department of Medical Sciences, Molecular Biotechnology Center, University of Torino , Turin, Italy
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Yang B, Hosgood SA, Da Z, Harper SJF, Waller HL, Kay MD, Furness PN, Nicholson ML. Biomarkers assessing warm ischemic injury using an isolated porcine kidney hemoreperfusion model. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2013; 237:1462-73. [PMID: 23354405 DOI: 10.1258/ebm.2012.012050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/25/2022] Open
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Prolonged warm ischemia (WI) occurring in marginal kidney donors together with reperfusion injury determines allograft survival, in which apoptosis and inflammation play crucial roles. There is no single valid biomarker, so far, to assess the degree of kidney donor injury. To define new biomarkers for detecting initial donor ischemic injury, caspase-3, caspase-7, apoptosis, inflammation, HSP70 and renal histological changes were examined in porcine kidneys subjected to 7- 15- 25- or 40-min WI, two-hour cold storage and six-hour hemoreperfusion. Caspase-3 activity was gradually increased by prolonged reperfusion, with a decrease trend against WI time. This result was verified by raised 17 kDa active caspase-3 in postreperfusion kidneys, with elevated 12 kDa active caspase-3 and lowered precursor at seven-minute WI. Active caspase-7 was also doubled by reperfusion with decreased precursor at seven-minute WI, but declined against prolonged WI. Apoptotic cells in tubular and interstitial areas were greatly increased by reperfusion at seven-minute WI, but decreased against prolonged WI. In addition, myeloperoxidase (MPO)+ cells were dramatically increased by reperfusion and presented as a bell-shape against WI time, while HSP70 was significantly increased at 7-min WI, but decreased at 40-min WI after reperfusion. In postreperfusion kidneys, tubular dilation and cell shedding were observed at 7- and 15-min WI, while tubular vacuolation and cell debris were found in tubular lumens at longer WI times. At 40-min WI, early nuclear pyknosis, tubular epithelia detachment and peri-tubular capillary dilation were detected. Furthermore, caspase-3, caspase-7, apoptosis, but not MPO+ cells or HSP70, were correlated with renal function. In conclusion, caspase-3, caspase-7 and apoptosis appear to be better biomarkers than MPO+ cells or HSP70 for assessing warm ischemic injury in donor kidneys. Hemoreperfusion activates caspase-3 and caspase-7, promotes apoptosis of damaged cells in kidneys only with limited WI, which might be beneficial to renal structural re-modeling and functional recovery.
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- Bin Yang
- Transplant Surgery Group, Department of Infection, Immunity and Inflammation, University of Leicester, Leicester General Hospital, Leicester LE5 4PW, UK.
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Slocum JL, Heung M, Pennathur S. Marking renal injury: can we move beyond serum creatinine? Transl Res 2012; 159:277-89. [PMID: 22424431 PMCID: PMC3308350 DOI: 10.1016/j.trsl.2012.01.014] [Citation(s) in RCA: 70] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/24/2011] [Revised: 01/12/2012] [Accepted: 01/13/2012] [Indexed: 02/07/2023]
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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a prevalent and devastating condition associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite marked improvements in clinical care, the outcomes for subjects with AKI have shown limited improvement in the past 50 years. A major factor inhibiting clinical progress in this field has been the inability to accurately predict and diagnose early kidney dysfunction. The current gold standard clinical and biochemical criteria for diagnosis of AKI, Risk Injury Failure Loss End-stage renal disease, and its modification, Acute Kidney Injury Network criteria, rely on urine output and serum creatinine, which are insensitive, nonspecific, and late markers of disease. The recent development of a variety of analytic mass spectrometry-based platforms have enabled separation, characterization, detection, and quantification of proteins (proteomics) and metabolites (metabolomics). These high-throughput platforms have raised hopes of identifying novel protein and metabolite markers, and recent efforts have led to several promising novel markers of AKI. However, substantial challenges remain, including the need to systematically evaluate incremental performance of these markers over and beyond current clinical and biochemical criteria for AKI. We discuss the basic issues surrounding AKI biomarker development, highlight the most promising markers currently under development, and discuss the barriers toward widespread clinical implementation of these markers.
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- Jessica L Slocum
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI 48105, USA
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Canacankatan N, Sucu N, Aytacoglu B, Gul OE, Gorur A, Korkmaz B, Sahan-Firat S, Antmen ES, Tamer L, Ayaz L, Vezir O, Kanik A, Tunctan B. Affirmative effects of iloprost on apoptosis during ischemia-reperfusion injury in kidney as a distant organ. Ren Fail 2011; 34:111-8. [PMID: 22126436 DOI: 10.3109/0886022x.2011.633446] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE Apoptosis and its regulatory mechanisms take part in renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury which can result in acute renal failure and the inhibition of the caspase is considered as a new therapeutic strategy. In this context, we investigated the antiapoptotic and cytoprotective effects of iloprost, a prostacyclin analog, in kidney as a distant organ. METHODS Wistar albino rats were randomized into five groups (n = 12 in each) as sham, ischemia, I/R, iloprost (10 μg kg(-1)), and I/R + iloprost (10 μg kg(-1)). A 4 h reperfusion procedure was carried out after 4 h of ischemia. Caspase-8 was evaluated for death receptor-induced pathways, whereas caspase-9 was evaluated for mitochondria-dependent pathways and caspase-3 was investigated for overall apoptosis. Superoxide dismutase (SOD) enzyme activity and nitrite content as an indicator of nitric oxide (NO) production were also analyzed in kidney tissues. RESULTS Caspases-3, -8, and -9 were all significantly elevated in both ischemia and I/R groups compared to the sham group; however, treatment with iloprost reduced caspases-3, -8, and -9. SOD enzyme activity was attenuated by iloprost when compared to ischemic rats. The different effects of NO were found which change according to the present situation in ischemia, I/R, and treatment with iloprost. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggested that iloprost prevents apoptosis in both receptor-induced and mitochondria-dependent pathways in renal I/R injury and it may be considered as a cytoprotective agent for apoptosis. Understanding the efficiency of iloprost on the pathways for cell death may lead to an opportunity in the therapeutic approach for renal I/R injury.
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- Necmiye Canacankatan
- Department of Biochemistry, Faculty of Pharmacy, Mersin University, Mersin, Turkey.
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Jin HT, Lämsä T, Nordback PH, Hyvönen MT, Räty S, Nordback I, Herzig KH, Alhonen L, Sand J. Polyamine catabolism in relation to trypsin activation and apoptosis in experimental acute pancreatitis. Pancreatology 2011; 11:83-91. [PMID: 21525776 DOI: 10.1159/000327260] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2010] [Accepted: 03/01/2011] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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BACKGROUND Overinduced polyamine catabolism (PC) in a transgenic rat model has been suggested to be a mediator of trypsin activation which is important in acinar cell necrosis. PC has also been observed in experimental taurodeoxycholate pancreatitis. We hypothesized that PC may be a mediator of trypsin activation in taurodeoxycholate pancreatitis. METHODS Pancreatitis was induced in wild-type rats by 2 or 6% taurodeoxycholate infusion or in transgenic rats by overexpressing spermidine/spermine N(1)-acetyltransferase (SSAT). The time courses of necrosis, caspase-3 immunostaining, SSAT, polyamine levels, and trypsinogen activation peptide (TAP) were monitored. The effect of the polyamine analogue bismethylspermine (Me(2)Spm) was investigated. RESULTS In a transgenic pancreatitis model, TAP and acinar necrosis increased simultaneously after the activation of SSAT, depletion of spermidine, and development of apoptosis. In taurodeoxycholate pancreatitis, necrosis developed along with the accumulation of TAP. SSAT was activated simultaneously or after TAP accumulation and less than in the transgenic model, with less depletion of spermidine than in the transgenic model. Supplementation with Me(2)Spm ameliorated the extent of acinar necrosis at 24 h, but contrary to previous findings in the transgenic model, in the taurodeoxycholate model it did not affect trypsin activation. Compared with the transgenic model, no extensive apoptosis was found in taurodeoxycholate pancreatitis. CONCLUSIONS Contrary to transgenic SSAT-overinduced pancreatitis, PC may not be a mediator of trypsin activation in taurodeoxycholate pancreatitis. The beneficial effect of polyamine supplementation on necrosis in taurodeoxycholate pancreatitis may rather be mediated by other mechanisms than amelioration of trypsin activation. and IAP.
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- Hai-Tao Jin
- Department of Gastroenterology and Alimentary Tract Surgery, Tampere University Hospital, Tampere, Finland.
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Martinez F, Kamar N, Pallet N, Lang P, Durrbach A, Lebranchu Y, Adem A, Barbier S, Cassuto-Viguier E, Glowaki F, Le Meur Y, Rostaing L, Legendre C, Hermine O, Choukroun G. High dose epoetin beta in the first weeks following renal transplantation and delayed graft function: Results of the Neo-PDGF Study. Am J Transplant 2010; 10:1695-700. [PMID: 20642691 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2010.03142.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Erythropoietin promotes nephroprotection in animal models of ischemia-reperfusion injury. Neorecormon and Prevention of Delayed Graft Function (Neo-PDGF) is a French open-label multicenter randomized study to evaluate the effect of high doses of epoetin beta (EPO-beta) during the first 2 weeks of renal transplantation on renal function in patients at risk for delayed graft function (DGF). One hundred and four patients were included in the study. Patients randomized in treatment group (A) received four injections of EPO-beta (30.000 UI each), given before surgery and at 12 h, 7 days and 14 days posttransplantation. Patients randomized in control group (B) did not receive EPO-beta. Immunosuppression included induction with basiliximab and maintenance therapy with steroids, mycophenolate mofetil and tacrolimus. At 1 month posttransplant, the estimated glomerular filtration rate (MDRD formula) was 42.5 +/- 19.0 mL/min in the EPO-beta group and 44.0 +/- 16.3 mL/min in the control group (p = ns). The frequency of DGF was similar in both groups (32% vs. 38.8%; p = ns). No difference in the incidence of serious adverse events was observed. (ClinicalTrials.gov number, NCT00815867.).
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- F Martinez
- Hôpital Necker, Assistance Publique Hôpitaux de Paris et Université Paris Descartes, France.
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Russ AL, Dadarlat IA, Haberstroh KM, Rundell AE. Investigating the role of ischemia vs. elevated hydrostatic pressure associated with acute obstructive uropathy. Ann Biomed Eng 2009; 37:1415-24. [PMID: 19381812 DOI: 10.1007/s10439-009-9695-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2008] [Accepted: 04/07/2009] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Obstructive uropathy can cause irreversible renal damage. It has been hypothesized that elevated hydrostatic pressure within renal tubules and/or renal ischemia contributes to cellular injury following obstruction. However, these assaults are essentially impossible to isolate in vivo. Therefore, we developed a novel pressure system to evaluate the isolated and coordinated effects of elevated hydrostatic pressure and ischemic insults on renal cells in vitro. Cells were subjected to: (1) elevated hydrostatic pressure (80 cm H(2)O); (2) ischemic insults (hypoxia (0% O(2)), hypercapnia (20% CO(2)), and 0 mM glucose media); and (3) elevated pressure + ischemic insults. Cellular responses including cell density, lactate dehydrogenase (LDH) release, and intracellular LDH (LDH(i)), were recorded after 24 h of insult and following recovery. Data were analyzed to assess the primary effects of ischemic insults and elevated pressure. Unlike pressure, ischemic insults exerted a primary effect on nearly all response measurements. We also evaluated the data for insult interactions and identified significant interactions between ischemic insults and pressure. Altogether, findings indicate that pressure may sub-lethally effect cells and alter cellular metabolism (LDH(i)) and membrane properties. Results suggest that renal ischemia may be the primary, but not the sole, cause of cellular injury induced by obstructive uropathy.
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- Alissa L Russ
- Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering, Purdue University, 206 S. Martin Jischke Dr., West Lafayette, IN 47907-1791, USA.
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Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a very common condition encountered in a hospital setting. AKI is an independent risk factor for in-hospital mortality. In this review, we discuss in detail about the tubular, inflammatory and vascular molecular targets of AKI which may result in therapies to improve mortality and biomarkers for earlier diagnosis of AKI.
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Jiménez C, Capasso JM, Edelstein CL, Rivard CJ, Lucia S, Breusegem S, Berl T, Segovia M. Different ways to die: cell death modes of the unicellular chlorophyte Dunaliella viridis exposed to various environmental stresses are mediated by the caspase-like activity DEVDase. JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL BOTANY 2009; 60:815-28. [PMID: 19251986 PMCID: PMC2652065 DOI: 10.1093/jxb/ern330] [Citation(s) in RCA: 48] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/04/2008] [Revised: 11/20/2008] [Accepted: 11/24/2008] [Indexed: 05/23/2023]
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Programmed cell death is necessary for homeostasis in multicellular organisms and it is also widely recognized to occur in unicellular organisms. However, the mechanisms through which it occurs in unicells, and the enzymes involved within the final response is still the subject of heated debate. It is shown here that exposure of the unicellular microalga Dunaliella viridis to several environmental stresses, induced different cell death morphotypes, depending on the stimulus received. Senescent cells demonstrated classical and unambiguous apoptotic-like characteristics such as chromatin condensation, DNA fragmentation, intact organelles, and blebbing of the cell membrane. Acute heat shock caused general swelling and altered plasma membrane, but the presence of chromatin clusters and DNA strand breaks suggested a necrotic-like event. UV irradiated cells presented changes typical for necrosis, together with apoptotic characteristics resembling an intermediate cell-death phenotype termed aponecrosis-like. Cells subjected to hyperosmotic shock revealed chromatin spotting without DNA fragmentation, and extensive cytoplasmic swelling and vacuolization, comparable to a paraptotic-like cell death phenotype. Nitrogen-starved cells showed pyknosis, blebbing, and cytoplasmic consumption, indicating a similarity to autophagic/vacuolar-like cell death. The caspase-like activity DEVDase was measured by using the fluorescent substrate Ac-DEVD-AMC and antibodies against the human caspase-3 active enzyme cross-reacted with bands, the intensity of which paralleled the activity. All the environmental stresses tested produced a substantial increase in both DEVDase activity and protein levels. The irreversible caspase-3 inhibitor Z-DEVD-FMK completely inhibited the enzymatic activity whereas serine and aspartyl proteases inhibitors did not. These results show that cell death in D. viridis does not conform to a single pattern and that environmental stimuli may produce different types of cell death depending on the type and intensity of the stimulus, all of which help to understand the cell death-dependent and cell death-independent functions of caspase-like proteins. Hence, these data support the theory that alternative, non-apoptotic programmed cell death (PCDs), exist either in parallel or in an independent manner with apoptosis and were already present in single-celled organisms that evolved some 1.2-1.6 billion years ago.
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- Carlos Jiménez
- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Málaga, Bvd. Louis Pasteur s/n, E-29071 Málaga, Spain
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- Department of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 E. 9th Av. Denver, CO 80262, USA
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- Department of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 E. 9th Av. Denver, CO 80262, USA
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- Department of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 E. 9th Av. Denver, CO 80262, USA
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- Department of Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 E. 9th Av. Denver, CO 80262, USA
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- Department of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 E. 9th Av. Denver, CO 80262, USA
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- Department of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, School of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, 4200 E. 9th Av. Denver, CO 80262, USA
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- Department of Ecology, Faculty of Sciences, University of Málaga, Bvd. Louis Pasteur s/n, E-29071 Málaga, Spain
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Renal ischemia is a common complication in the perioperative period that leads to a high rate of morbidity and mortality. As in other forms of ischemia (i.e., cardiac, neurologic), the incidence and outcome of renal ischemia is strikingly sex-specific. Sexual dimorphism in response to renal injury has been noted for many years, but is now the subject of both clinical and experimental research. Clinically, women experience a lower incidence of perioperative acute renal failure, with the exception of cardiac surgery. Experimental science is now producing tantalizing clues that sex steroids, both male and female, play a role in the kidney's response to ischemia. In this review, we evaluated sex differences in perioperative renal failure and in the pathophysiology of renal ischemia/reperfusion injury. Although much work remains to characterize the biological mechanisms involved, the data are sufficient to support consideration of gender and the use of medications that impact steroid availability in the perioperative plan of care.
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- Michael P Hutchens
- OR Health and Science University, Department of Anesthesiology and Peri-Operative Medicine, Portland, USA.
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The Effect of Warm Ischemic Time on Renal Function and Injury in the Isolated Hemoperfused Kidney. Transplantation 2008; 86:445-51. [DOI: 10.1097/tp.0b013e31817fe0cd] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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Terada Y, Inoshita S, Kuwana H, Kobayashi T, Okado T, Ichijo H, Sasaki S. Important role of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 in ischemic acute kidney injury. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2007; 364:1043-9. [PMID: 17971303 DOI: 10.1016/j.bbrc.2007.10.122] [Citation(s) in RCA: 38] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2007] [Accepted: 10/22/2007] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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We investigated the role of apoptosis signal-regulating kinase 1 (ASK1) in ischemia/reperfusion (I/R)-induced acute kidney injury (AKI). Blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine were significantly higher in ASK1+/+ mice than in ASK1-/- mice after I/R injury. Renal histology of ASK1+/+ mice showed significantly greater tubular necrosis and degradation. In ASK1-/- mice, phosphorylation of ASK1, JNK, and p38K, and the number of TUNEL-positive cells and infiltrated leukocytes decreased after I/R injury. Apoptotic changes were significantly decreased in cultured renal tubular epithelial cells (TECs) from ASK1-/- mice under hypoxic condition. Transfection with dominant-active ASK1 induced apoptosis in TECs. Protein expression of monocyte chemoattractant protein-1 (MCP-1) was significantly weaker in ASK1-/- mice after I/R injury. Transfection with dominant negative-ASK1 significantly decreased MCP-1 production in TECs. These results demonstrated that ASK1 is activated in I/R-induced AKI, and blockage of ASK1 attenuates renal tubular apoptosis, MCP-1 expression, and renal function.
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- Yoshio Terada
- Department of Nephrology and Blood Purification, Tokyo Medical and Dental University, 5-45, Yushima 1-chome, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 113-8519, Japan.
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Homsi E, Janino P, de Faria JBL. Role of caspases on cell death, inflammation, and cell cycle in glycerol-induced acute renal failure. Kidney Int 2006; 69:1385-92. [PMID: 16557226 DOI: 10.1038/sj.ki.5000315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 108] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/09/2022]
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Caspases are the main executioners of apoptosis as well as interleukin (IL)-1beta and IL-18 conversion to active forms. They are activated after acute kidney injuries. In this study, we evaluated the importance of the caspase family in the pathogenesis and recovery of glycerol-induced acute renal failure in rats (Gly-ARF). Rats were treated with pan-caspase or selective caspase 1 and 3 inhibitors at the moment we injected glycerol. Renal function, renal histology (HE), transferase-mediated deoxynucleotidyl transferase deoxyuridine triphosphate nick end labeling staining for apoptosis, leukocytes infiltration (immunohistochemistry), renal expression of IL-1beta and IL-18 (immunohistochemistry and Western blot), tubular regeneration (5-bromo-2'-deoxyuridine (BrdU) incorporation), and P27(Kip) expression (Western blot) were evaluated at appropriate times. All inhibitors reduced the renal function impairment. Pan-caspase and caspase-3 inhibitors reduced cellular death (necrosis and apoptosis) 24 h after Gly-ARF. All caspases inhibitors reduced macrophages infiltration. The expression of total IL-1beta was enhanced in Gly-ARF, but the active IL-1beta and IL-18 forms were abolished in pan-caspase treated rats. Caspase-1 inhibitor attenuated Gly-ARF but not tubular injury suggesting glomerular hemodynamic improvement. There was striking regenerative response 48 h after Gly-ARF characterized by enhanced BrdU incorporation and reduced expression of p27(Kip). This response was not blunted by caspases inhibition. Our findings demonstrate that caspases participate in important pathogenic mechanisms in Gly-ARF such as inflammation, apoptosis, vasoconstriction, and tubular necrosis. The early inhibition of caspases attenuates these mechanisms and reduces the renal function impairment in Gly-ARF.
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- E Homsi
- Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, School of Medical Sciences, State University of Campinas, Campinas, São Paulo, Brazil.
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Dursun B, He Z, Somerset H, Oh DJ, Faubel S, Edelstein CL. Caspases and calpain are independent mediators of cisplatin-induced endothelial cell necrosis. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2006; 291:F578-87. [PMID: 16622172 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00455.2005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 74] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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The role of caspases and calpain in cisplatin-induced endothelial cell death is unknown. Thus we investigated whether caspases and calpain are mediators of cisplatin-induced apoptosis and necrosis in endothelial cells. Cultured pancreatic microvascular endothelial (MS1) cells were exposed to 10 and 50 microM cisplatin. Apoptosis or necrosis was determined by Hoechst 33342 and propidium iodide (PI) nuclear staining. Cells treated with 10 microM cisplatin had normal ATP levels, increased caspase-3-like activity, excluded PI and demonstrated morphological characteristics of apoptosis at 24 h. Cells treated with 50 microM cisplatin had severe ATP depletion, increased caspase-3-like activity, and displayed extensive PI staining indicative of necrosis at 24 h. There was a dose-dependent increase in caspase-2-like activity and Smac/DIABLO protein. Calpain activity increased significantly with 50 microM, but not 10 microM cisplatin at 24 h. With 50 microM cisplatin, ATP levels were significantly reduced starting at 18 h, caspase-2- and caspase-3-like activities were significantly increased starting at 18 h, and LDH release started at 8 h with maximum increase at 18-24 h. Calpain activity was not increased before 24 h. The increase in LDH release and the nuclear PI staining with 50 microM cisplatin at 24 h was reduced by either the pancaspase inhibitor, Q-VD-OPH, or the calpain inhibitor, PD-150606. Calpain inhibitor had no effect on caspase-3-like activity. In conclusion, in cisplatin-treated endothelial cells, caspases, the major mediators of apoptosis, can also cause necrosis. A calpain inhibitor protects against necrosis without affecting caspase-3-like activity suggesting that calpain-mediated necrosis is independent of caspase-3.
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- Belda Dursun
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Department of Medicine, Denver, CO 80262, USA
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Thurman JM, Royer PA, Ljubanovic D, Dursun B, Lenderink AM, Edelstein CL, Holers VM. Treatment with an inhibitory monoclonal antibody to mouse factor B protects mice from induction of apoptosis and renal ischemia/reperfusion injury. J Am Soc Nephrol 2006; 17:707-15. [PMID: 16467447 DOI: 10.1681/asn.2005070698] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/24/2023] Open
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Complement activation in the kidney after ischemia/reperfusion (I/R) seems to occur primarily via the alternative complement pathway. The ability of an inhibitory mAb to mouse factor B, a necessary component of the alternative pathway, to protect mice from ischemic acute renal failure was tested. Treatment with the mAb prevented the deposition of C3b on the tubular epithelium and the generation of systemic C3a after renal I/R. Treated mice had significantly lower increases in serum urea nitrogen and developed significantly less morphologic injury of the kidney after I/R. For gaining insight into potential mechanisms of protection, the activity of caspases within the kidney also was measured, and it was found that caspases-2, -3, and -9 increased in a complement-dependent manner after renal I/R. Apoptotic cells were detected by terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase catalyzed labeling of DNA fragments, and mice in which the alternative pathway was inhibited demonstrated significantly less apoptosis than control mice. Thus, use of an inhibitory mAb to mouse factor B effectively prevented activation of complement in the kidney after I/R and protected the mice from necrotic and apoptotic injury of the tubules.
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- Joshua M Thurman
- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, CO 80262, USA, and Department of Pathology, University Hospital Dubrava, Zabreb, Croatia.
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Inhibitors of calpain activation (PD150606 and E-64) and renal ischemia-reperfusion injury. Biochem Pharmacol 2005; 69:1121-31. [PMID: 15763548 DOI: 10.1016/j.bcp.2005.01.003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/29/2004] [Accepted: 01/04/2005] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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Calpain activation has been implicated in the development of ischemia-reperfusion (I-R) injury. Here we investigate the effects of two inhibitors of calpain activity, PD150606 and E-64, on the renal dysfunction and injury caused by I-R of rat kidneys in vivo. Male Wistar rats were administered PD150606 or E-64 (3mg/kg i.p.) or vehicle (10%, v/v, DMSO) 30min prior to I-R. Rats were subjected to bilateral renal ischemia (45min) followed by reperfusion (6h). Serum and urinary biochemical indicators of renal dysfunction and injury were measured; serum creatinine (for glomerular dysfunction), fractional excretion of Na(+) (FE(Na), for tubular dysfunction) and urinary N-acetyl-beta-d-glucosaminidase (NAG, for tubular injury). Additionally, kidney tissues were used for histological analysis of renal injury, immunohistochemical analysis of intercellular adhesion molecule-1 (ICAM-1) expression and nitrotyrosine formation. Renal myeloperoxidase (MPO) activity (for polymorphonuclear leukocyte infiltration) and malondialdehyde (MDA) levels (for tissue lipid peroxidation) were determined. Both PD150606 and E-64 significantly reduced the increases in serum creatinine, FE(Na) and NAG caused by renal I-R, indicating attenuation of renal dysfunction and injury and reduced histological evidence of renal damage caused by I-R. Both PD150606 and E-64 markedly reduced the evidence of oxidative stress (ICAM-1 expression, MPO activity, MDA levels) and nitrosative stress (nitrotyrosine formation) in rat kidneys subjected to I-R. These findings provide the first evidence that calpain inhibitors can reduce the renal dysfunction and injury caused by I-R of the kidney and may be useful in enhancing the tolerance of the kidney against renal injury associated with aortovascular surgery or renal transplantation.
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Faubel S, Ljubanovic D, Reznikov L, Somerset H, Dinarello CA, Edelstein CL. Caspase-1-deficient mice are protected against cisplatin-induced apoptosis and acute tubular necrosis. Kidney Int 2005; 66:2202-13. [PMID: 15569309 DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2004.66010.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 148] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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BACKGROUND Cisplatin is a commonly used chemotherapeutic agent which causes apoptosis or necrosis of renal tubular epithelial cells in vitro. Caspases are a family of cysteine proteases that mediate apoptosis (caspase-3) and inflammation (caspase-1). Although well studied in vitro, caspases have not been previously studied in cisplatin-induced acute renal failure (ARF) in vivo. METHODS Cisplatin (30 mg/kg) was injected intraperitoneally into wild-type and caspase-1-deficient (-/-) C57BL/6 mice. Serum creatinine and blood urea nitrogen (BUN), and renal caspase-1, -3, -8 and -9 activity were measured on days 1, 2, and 3 after cisplatin injection. Kidneys were examined for acute tubular necrosis (ATN), neutrophils, and apoptosis on days 1, 2, and 3. RESULTS After cisplatin injection, serum creatinine and BUN were normal on day 1, began to increase on day 2, and peaked on day 3. Similarly, ATN scores and neutrophil counts peaked on day 3. In contrast, renal apoptosis significantly increased on day 2. Renal dysfunction, apoptosis, ATN scores and neutrophil infiltration were all reduced in the caspase-1(-/-) mice. In wild-type mice, caspase-1 and -3 activity increased on days 2 and 3. Caspase-3 activity was reduced by approximately 50% in caspase-1(-/-) mice; active caspase-3 detected by immunoblot was also reduced in caspase-1(-/-) mice. In vitro, addition of recombinant caspases to kidney cytosolic extracts determined that caspase-1 activates caspase-3 in renal tissue. CONCLUSION These results indicate that caspase-1 contributes to cisplatin-induced ARF and ATN (day 3). Furthermore, caspase-1 affects caspase-3 activation and apoptosis in cisplatin-induced ARF (day 2).
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- Sarah Faubel
- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
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Kaushal GP, Liu L, Kaushal V, Hong X, Melnyk O, Seth R, Safirstein R, Shah SV. Regulation of caspase-3 and -9 activation in oxidant stress to RTE by forkhead transcription factors, Bcl-2 proteins, and MAP kinases. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2004; 287:F1258-68. [PMID: 15304372 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00391.2003] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/15/2023] Open
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Cytotoxicity to renal tubular epithelial cells (RTE) is dependent on the relative response of cell survival and cell death signals triggered by the injury. Forkhead transcription factors, Bcl-2 family member Bad, and mitogen-activated protein kinases are regulated by phosphorylation that plays crucial roles in determining cell fate. We examined the role of phosphorylation of these proteins in regulation of H2O2-induced caspase activation in RTE. The phosphorylation of FKHR, FKHRL, and Bcl-2 family member Bad was markedly increased in response to oxidant injury, and this increase was associated with elevated levels of basal phosphorylation of Akt/protein kinase B. Phosphoinositol (PI) 3-kinase inhibitors abolished this phosphorylation and also decreased expression of antiapoptotic proteins Bcl-2 and BclxL. Inhibition of phosphorylation of forkhead proteins resulted in a marked increase in the proapoptotic protein Bim. These downstream effects of PI 3-kinase inhibition promoted the oxidant-induced activation of caspase-3 and -9, but not caspase-8 and -1. The impact of enhanced activation of caspases by PI 3-kinase inhibition was reflected on accelerated oxidant-induced cell death. Oxidant stress also induced marked phosphorylation of ERK1/2, P38, and JNK kinases. Inhibition of ERK1/2 phosphorylation but not P38 and JNK kinase increased caspase-3 and -9 activation; however, this activation was far less than induced by inhibition of Akt phosphorylation. Thus the Akt-mediated phosphorylation pathway, ERK signaling, and the antiapoptotic Bcl-2 proteins distinctly regulate caspase activation during oxidant injury to RTE. These studies suggest that enhancing renal-specific survival signals may lead to preservation of renal function during oxidant injury.
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- Gur P Kaushal
- Department of Medicine, Central Arkansas Veterans Healthcare System, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Slot 501, 4301 W. Markham St., Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
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Luijerink MC, van Beurden EACM, Malingré HEM, Jacobs SMM, Grompe M, Klomp LWJ, Berger R, van den Berg IET. Renal proximal tubular cells acquire resistance to cell death stimuli in mice with hereditary tyrosinemia type 1. Kidney Int 2004; 66:990-1000. [PMID: 15327392 DOI: 10.1111/j.1523-1755.2004.00788.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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BACKGROUND Hereditary tyrosinemia type 1 (HT1), which is associated with severe liver and kidney damage, is caused by deficiency of fumarylacetoacetate hydrolase (FAH), the last enzyme of the tyrosine breakdown cascade. HT1-associated liver and kidney failure can be prevented by blocking an enzyme upstream of FAH in the tyrosine breakdown pathway with 2-(2-nitro-4-trifluoromethylbenzoyl)-1,3-cyclohexanedione (NTBC). FAH knockout mice develop the HT1 phenotype when NTBC treatment is discontinued. METHODS The occurrence of cell death was investigated in kidneys of Fah(-/-) mice on and off NTBC either unchallenged or injected with 800 mg/kg of homogentisic acid (HGA), an intermediate of tyrosine breakdown. RESULTS No cell death could be detected in kidneys of Fah(-/-) mice on NTBC. A slight increase of cleaved caspase-3 was the only apoptosis-related feature that could be detected in kidneys of Fah(-/-) mice off NTBC. Challenge of Fah(-/-) mice on NTBC with HGA led to massive death of renal proximal tubular cells, with positive terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferase-mediated deoxyuridine diphosphate (dUDP) nick-end labeling (TUNEL) and DNA fragmentation assays, but hardly any cleavage of caspase-9 and caspase-3. Fah(-/-) mice off NTBC acquired resistance to HGA-induced renal cell death and the kidneys exhibited relatively few features of apoptosis upon challenge with HGA, with a small increase in expression of cleaved caspase-9 and caspase-3. CONCLUSION Kidneys of adult Fah(-/-) mice, withdrawn from NTBC for 15 days, reveal limited characteristics of apoptosis, and have acquired resistance to a caspase-9- and caspase-3-independent form of cell death provoked by HGA.
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- Marjanka C Luijerink
- Department of Metabolic Diseases, University Medical Center, Utrecht, The Netherlands
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The study of cell death has emerged as an important and exciting area of research in cell biology. Although two kinds of cell death, apoptosis and necrosis, are recognized, one of the major advances in our understanding of cell death has been the recognition that the pathways traditionally associated with apoptosis may be very critical in the form of cell injury associated with necrosis. Renal tubular epithelial cell injury from ischemia has been generally regarded as a result of necrotic form of cell death. We briefly describe recent evidence indicating that pathways generally associated with apoptosis, including endonuclease activation, role of mitochondria and caspases, are important in renal tubular injury. It is likely that the cascades that lead to apoptotic or necrotic mode of cell death are activated almost simultaneously and may share some common pathways.
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- Gur P Kaushal
- Department of Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, USA
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Jani A, Ljubanovic D, Faubel S, Kim J, Mischak R, Edelstein CL. Caspase inhibition prevents the increase in caspase-3, -2, -8 and -9 activity and apoptosis in the cold ischemic mouse kidney. Am J Transplant 2004; 4:1246-54. [PMID: 15268725 DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-6143.2004.00498.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 52] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Prolonged cold ischemic time is a risk factor for the development of delayed graft function. The adverse impact of cold ischemia may be associated with tubular cell death in the kidney. Caspase-3 is a major mediator of apoptotic cell death. We hypothesized that caspase inhibition would reduce apoptosis and other features of cold ischemia. Kidneys of C57BL/6 mice were perfused with cold University of Wisconsin solution containing a pancaspase inhibitor or vehicle via the left ventricle. The contralateral right kidney was used as a control. The left kidney was stored for 48 h at 4 degrees C to produce cold ischemia. Caspase-3 activity was massively (100-fold) increased in cold ischemic kidneys compared with controls. On immunoblot analysis, the processed form of caspase-3 was increased in cold ischemic kidneys compared with controls. The increase in caspase-3 was associated with significantly more renal tubular apoptosis and brush-border injury. In addition, caspase-2, -8 and -9 activities were increased in cold ischemic kidneys. The pancaspase inhibitor prevented the formation of the processed form of caspase-3 and the increase in caspase activity, and reduced apoptosis and brush-border injury. Caspase inhibition may prove useful in kidney preservation.
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- Alkesh Jani
- University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado, USA
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Numerous lines of evidence demonstrate that calpains, a family of 14 Ca(2+)-activated neutral cysteine proteases, are involved in oncotic cell death in a variety of models. At this time, the biochemistry of most calpains and the specific roles of different calpains in physiology and pathology remain to be determined. A number of calpain substrates have been identified in cellular systems, including cytoskeletal proteins, and recent studies suggest that calpains mediate the increase in plasma membrane permeability to ions and the progressive breakdown of the plasma membrane observed in oncosis through the proteolysis of cystokeletal and plasma membrane proteins. Further, a number of reports provide evidence that the mitochondrial dysfunction observed in oncosis may be mediated by a mitochondrial calpain of unknown identity. Finally, a number of diverse calpain inhibitors have been developed that show cytoprotective properties in cellular systems and in vivo following diverse insults. It is suggested that future research be directed toward elucidation of the role(s) of specific calpain isozymes in physiological and pathological conditions; identifying and linking specific calpain substrates with altered cellular functions; and developing cell-permeable, potent, isozyme-selective calpain inhibitors.
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- Xiuli Liu
- Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, Arkansas 72205, USA.
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Boom H, Mallat MJK, de Fijter JW, Paul LC, Bruijn JA, van Es LA. Calcium levels as a risk factor for delayed graft function. Transplantation 2004; 77:868-73. [PMID: 15077029 DOI: 10.1097/01.tp.0000116417.03114.87] [Citation(s) in RCA: 47] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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BACKGROUND Delayed graft function (DGF) occurs in up to 50% of renal transplants. Hypercalcemia and hyperparathyroidism are associated with impaired renal function. Little is known on the effects of serum calcium levels on DGF. This issue was addressed in the current study. METHODS Patients receiving a cadaveric renal transplant between 1986 and 1996 were studied. Data on calcium metabolism and histologic characteristics of nephrocalcinosis, acute tubular necrosis (ATN), and acute rejection in biopsies taken within the first week were related to the occurrence of DGF. RESULTS The incidence of DGF in a cohort of 585 cadaveric transplants was 31%. DGF correlated independently with serum calcium levels (odds ratio [OR] 1.14 [95% confidence interval (CI) 1.04-1.26] per 0.1 mmol/L). The use of calcium channel blockers before transplantation protected against DGF (OR 0.5 [95% CI 0.29- 0.87]). In this selected group, we found an association with histologic signs of ATN and DGF. However, most of the biopsies also had features of acute rejection or nephrocalcinosis. Nephrocalcinosis was found in 12 of 71 biopsies and was not associated with serum calcium levels or the occurrence of DGF. CONCLUSIONS In this study, serum calcium levels were independently associated with DGF. This could not be explained by the presence of microscopic nephrocalcinosis. Therefore, DGF is attributed to high intracellular calcium levels. Because calcium supplementation and vitamin D analogues are commonly used in dialysis practice, hypercalcemia influences long-term graft outcome by its effect on DGF. The pretransplant use of calcium channel blockers has a protective effect on the occurrence of DGF.
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- Henk Boom
- Department of Nephrology, Leiden University Medical Center, Leiden, The Netherlands.
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Al-Ghamdi SS, Raftery MJ, Yaqoob MM. Organic solvent-induced proximal tubular cell apoptosis via caspase-9 activation. ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY AND PHARMACOLOGY 2004; 16:147-152. [PMID: 21782701 DOI: 10.1016/j.etap.2003.12.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/01/2003] [Accepted: 12/06/2003] [Indexed: 05/31/2023]
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Long-term exposure to solvents is associated with apoptosis, which is implicated in the development and progression of tubulo-interstitial fibrosis and chronic renal failure. In our previous study, we demonstrated that toluene and p-xylene as the most commonly used organic solvents induced proximal tubular cells apoptosis. This study was conducted to assess the apoptotic pathway of toluene and p-xylene induced proximal tubular apoptosis. This was assessed by measuring the caspase-9 activity LLC-PK1 cells exposed to both compounds. A model of proximal tubular cell (LLC-PK1) cytotoxicity exposed to 1mM of either p-xylene or toluene was compared to untreated control for caspase-9 activity and Bax/Bcl-2 protein level. Furthermore, DNA fragmentation in the presence of caspase-9 inhibitor (Z-LEHD-FMK) in a dose-dependent manner was assessed. Both compounds induced caspase-9 activity, which was accompanied by up-regulation of Bax, whereas Bcl-2 level did not change. DNA fragmentation induced by both solvents was inhibited by caspase-9 inhibitor in dose-dependent manner. This data suggest that p-xylene or toluene induces nephrotoxicity via mitochondrial caspase-9 pathway. This mechanism involves up-regulation of the apoptotic protein, Bax.
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- Saeed S Al-Ghamdi
- Department of Experimental Medicine & Nephrology, St. Bart's & Royal London School of Medicine and Dentistry, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK
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The regulation of cell death has been investigated in a number of clinical disorders including renal ischemic and toxic acute renal failure. Caspases play a crucial role in the execution or final phase of cell death by cleaving and inactivating various structural and functional intracellular proteins that are essential for cell survival and proliferation. Evidence is now emerging to implicate the caspase pathway in a variety of renal diseases including the pathogenesis of acute renal failure. Among the 14 known members of the caspase family thus far identified several executioner caspases including caspases-3, -6, and -7 and the proinflammatory caspase including caspase-1 may participate in the final degradation of intracellular proteins. The activation of these caspases is regulated by the receptor- and mitochondrial-mediated cell signaling pathways as well as by the endoplasmic reticulum stress response. While the role of some caspases in renal injury is emerging, the roles of various proinflammatory and other executioner caspases remain to be determined. Although many pro- and anti-apoptotic molecules that act upstream of caspase activation have been identified, their regulation is yet to be determined in the pathogenesis of renal injury. A precise description of caspase-mediated cell death pathway and regulation of caspase activation is, therefore, critical to the understanding of the mechanism of renal injury and to the development of therapeutic targets that prevent renal diseases and preserve renal function.
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- Gur P Kaushal
- Department of Medicine, University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences, Little Rock, AR 72205, USA.
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Schwerdt G, Freudinger R, Schuster C, Silbernagl S, Gekle M. Inhibition of mitochondria prevents cell death in kidney epithelial cells by intra- and extracellular acidification. Kidney Int 2003; 63:1725-35. [PMID: 12675848 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2003.00934.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Nephrotoxic substances like cisplatin or ochratoxin A (OTA) induce cell death in human proximal tubule-derived cells (IHKE cells). Mitochondria play a significant role in apoptosis and loss of their function may influence OTA- or cisplatin-induced apoptosis. Extracellular pH also plays an important role in tumor genesis. Therefore, we investigated the role of mitochondria and intra- and extracellular pH on cell death induction by cisplatin or OTA. METHODS IHKE cells were incubated in the presence of OTA or cisplatin, together with inhibitors of the mitochondrial metabolism, and the activity of caspase-3 was measured and DNA laddering was monitored. Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) content of the cells, lactate release into the media, and glucose consumption was determined. In addition, media and cells were acidified or alkalized artificially to investigate the effect of intra- and extracellular pH on cell death induction. Cytochrome C was immunodetected in cellular compartments. RESULTS Inhibition of the mitochondrial function reduced OTA- or cisplatin-induced cell death and led to considerable lactic acid production and extracellular acidification. Intra- and extracellular acidification prevented cells from cell death induced by OTA or cisplatin. No cytochrome C release from mitochondria could be detected during 24 hours of exposure to OTA or cisplatin. CONCLUSION We conclude that OTA- or cisplatin-induced cell death is dependent on functional and intact, ATP-producing mitochondria and that intra- and extracellular pH is crucial for induction of cell death in IHKE cells.
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- Gerald Schwerdt
- Physiologisches Institut, Universität Würzburg, Würzburg, Germany. gerald
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Padanilam BJ. Cell death induced by acute renal injury: a perspective on the contributions of apoptosis and necrosis. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2003; 284:F608-27. [PMID: 12620919 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00284.2002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 255] [Impact Index Per Article: 12.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/07/2023] Open
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In humans and experimental models of renal ischemia, tubular cells in various nephron segments undergo necrotic and/or apoptotic cell death. Various factors, including nucleotide depletion, electrolyte imbalance, reactive oxygen species, endonucleases, disruption of mitochondrial integrity, and activation of various components of the apoptotic machinery, have been implicated in renal cell vulnerability. Several approaches to limit the injury and augment the regeneration process, including nucleotide repletion, administration of growth factors, reactive oxygen species scavengers, and inhibition of inducers and executioners of cell death, proved to be effective in animal models. Nevertheless, an effective approach to limit or prevent ischemic renal injury in humans remains elusive, primarily because of an incomplete understanding of the mechanisms of cellular injury. Elucidation of cell death pathways in animal models in the setting of renal injury and extrapolation of the findings to humans will aid in the design of potential therapeutic strategies. This review evaluates our understanding of the molecular signaling events in apoptotic and necrotic cell death and the contribution of various molecular components of these pathways to renal injury.
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- Babu J Padanilam
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, University of Nebraska Medical Center, Omaha, Nebraska 68198-4575, USA.
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Kapasi AA, Patel G, Goenka A, Nahar N, Modi N, Bhaskaran M, Reddy K, Franki N, Patel J, Singhal PC. Ethanol promotes T cell apoptosis through the mitochondrial pathway. Immunology 2003; 108:313-20. [PMID: 12603597 PMCID: PMC1782900 DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2567.2003.01584.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022] Open
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Clinical reports suggest that acute ethanol intoxication is often associated with lymphopenia. Previously, ethanol was reported to invoke thymocyte apoptosis. We studied the effect of ethanol on T cell apoptosis. In addition, we evaluated the molecular mechanism of ethanol-induced T cell apoptosis. Human T cells harvested from healthy subjects after an alcohol drinking binge showed enhanced T cell apoptosis (before, 0.4 +/- 0.2% versus after, 19.6 +/- 2.5% apoptotic lymphocytes/field; P < 0.001). In in vitro studies, ethanol in a concentration of 50 mm and higher enhanced the apoptosis of Jurkat cells. DNA isolated from ethanol-treated Jurkat cells displayed integer multiples of 180 base pairs. Ethanol decreased Jurkat cell expression of Bcl-2, whereas ethanol increased Jurkat cell expression of Bax. Jurkat cells treated with ethanol also showed translocation of cytochrome C into cytosol. Moreover, a caspase-9 inhibitor partially inhibited ethanol-induced Jurkat cell apoptosis. In in vivo studies, after binge drinking, T cell expression of Bcl-2 also decreased. In addition, binge drinking induced the cleavage of caspase-3, suggesting activation of caspase-3 in T cells. These results suggest that ethanol promotes T cell apoptosis through the activation of intrinsic or mitochondrial pathway.
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- Aditi A Kapasi
- Department of Medicine, Long Island Jewish Medical Center, New Hyde Park, NY 11040, USA
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Melnikov VY, Faubel S, Siegmund B, Lucia MS, Ljubanovic D, Edelstein CL. Neutrophil-independent mechanisms of caspase-1- and IL-18-mediated ischemic acute tubular necrosis in mice. J Clin Invest 2002. [PMID: 12393844 DOI: 10.101172/jci0215623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/17/2022] Open
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Having recently described the injurious role of caspase-1-mediated production of the proinflammatory cytokine IL-18 in ischemic acute renal failure (ARF), we report here on the effect of the newly developed caspase inhibitor Quinoline-Val-Asp(Ome)-CH(2)-OPH (OPH-001) on caspase-1, IL-18, neutrophil infiltration, and renal function in ischemic ARF. C57BL/6 mice with ischemic ARF treated with OPH-001 had a marked (100%) reduction in blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine and a highly significant reduction in morphological acute tubular necrosis (ATN) score compared with vehicle-treated mice. OPH-001 significantly reduced the increase in caspase-1 activity and IL-18 and prevented neutrophil infiltration in the kidney during ischemic ARF. To evaluate whether this lack of neutrophil infiltration was contributing to the protection against ischemic ARF, a model of neutrophil depletion was developed. Neutrophil-depleted mice had a small (18%) reduction in serum creatinine during ischemic ARF but no reduction in ATN score despite a lack of neutrophil infiltration in the kidney. Remarkably, caspase-1 activity and IL-18 were significantly increased in the kidney in neutrophil-depleted mice with ARF. In addition, IL-18 antiserum-treated neutrophil-depleted mice with ischemic ARF had a significant (75%) reduction in serum creatinine and a significant reduction in ATN score compared with vehicle-treated neutrophil-depleted mice. These results suggest a novel neutrophil-independent mechanism of IL-18-mediated ischemic ARF.
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- Vyacheslav Y Melnikov
- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 4200 East 9th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
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Basnakian AG, Kaushal GP, Shah SV. Apoptotic pathways of oxidative damage to renal tubular epithelial cells. Antioxid Redox Signal 2002; 4:915-24. [PMID: 12573140 DOI: 10.1089/152308602762197452] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/26/2022]
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Toxic renal failure induced by gentamicin, glycerol, or cisplatin, as well as ischemic renal failure in vivo and hypoxia/reoxygenation of tubular epithelial cells in vitro, induces the production of reactive oxygen metabolites (ROM). Generation of ROM is responsible for the induction of tubular epithelial cell death, which is mediated by caspases and/or endonucleases. Scavenging of ROM protects tubular epithelium from caspase and endonuclease activation and from cell death. Thus, the inhibition of ROM production combined with the pharmacological control of caspase and endonuclease pathways may provide future modalities in the prevention or treatment of acute renal failure in humans.
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Faust J, Menke J, Kriegsmann J, Kelley VR, Mayet WJ, Galle PR, Schwarting A. Correlation of renal tubular epithelial cell-derived interleukin-18 up-regulation with disease activity in MRL-Faslpr mice with autoimmune lupus nephritis. ARTHRITIS AND RHEUMATISM 2002; 46:3083-95. [PMID: 12428253 DOI: 10.1002/art.10563] [Citation(s) in RCA: 102] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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OBJECTIVE MRL-Fas(lpr) mice spontaneously develop an autoimmune disease that mimics systemic lupus erythematosus in humans. Infiltrating T cells expressing interferon-gamma (IFNgamma) are responsible for the autoimmune kidney destruction in MRL-Fas(lpr) mice, and interleukin-18 (IL-18) released by mononuclear phagocytes stimulates T cells to produce the IFNgamma. Since MRL-Fas(lpr) T cells are characterized by an overexpression of the IL-18 receptor accessory chain, we sought to determine the impact of IL-18 on the progression of lupus nephritis in MRL-Fas(lpr) mice. METHODS IL-18 expression in sera and kidney tissues from MRL-Fas(lpr) mice was determined by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA), reverse transcription-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR), immunohistochemistry, and Western blotting. IL-18 production by primary cultured tubular epithelial cells (TECs) from MRL-Fas(lpr) and BALB/c mice were examined by RT-PCR, ELISA, and Western blotting. The interactions of TEC-derived IL-18 and MRL-Fas(lpr) T cells were studied in coculture assays. IL-18-related effects on TEC viability and adhesion molecule expression were determined by fluorescence-activated cell sorting and cell proliferation assays. RESULTS Up-regulation of mature IL-18 was restricted to nephritic MRL-Fas(lpr) kidneys and increased in parallel with the severity of lupus nephritis. IL-18 expression was not confined to infiltrating monocytes but was primarily detected in TECs. Similarly, interleukin-1beta-converting enzyme expression, which is required for the processing of precursor IL-18, was localized in TECs. De novo synthesis of IL-18 by MRL-Fas(lpr) TECs was confirmed by RT-PCR and Western blotting. Functional assays revealed that activated TECs induced IFNgamma production in MRL-Fas(lpr) T cells through IL-18. IL-18, in turn, increased apoptotic TEC death and up-regulation of intercellular adhesion molecule 1 and vascular cell adhesion molecule 1. CONCLUSION Taken together, our findings suggest that IL-18-producing TECs may directly be involved in the pathogenesis of lupus nephritis.
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- Justus Faust
- Johannes Gutenberg-University of Mainz, Mainz, Germany
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Melnikov VY, Faubel S, Siegmund B, Lucia MS, Ljubanovic D, Edelstein CL. Neutrophil-independent mechanisms of caspase-1- and IL-18-mediated ischemic acute tubular necrosis in mice. J Clin Invest 2002; 110:1083-91. [PMID: 12393844 PMCID: PMC150794 DOI: 10.1172/jci15623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 136] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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Having recently described the injurious role of caspase-1-mediated production of the proinflammatory cytokine IL-18 in ischemic acute renal failure (ARF), we report here on the effect of the newly developed caspase inhibitor Quinoline-Val-Asp(Ome)-CH(2)-OPH (OPH-001) on caspase-1, IL-18, neutrophil infiltration, and renal function in ischemic ARF. C57BL/6 mice with ischemic ARF treated with OPH-001 had a marked (100%) reduction in blood urea nitrogen (BUN) and serum creatinine and a highly significant reduction in morphological acute tubular necrosis (ATN) score compared with vehicle-treated mice. OPH-001 significantly reduced the increase in caspase-1 activity and IL-18 and prevented neutrophil infiltration in the kidney during ischemic ARF. To evaluate whether this lack of neutrophil infiltration was contributing to the protection against ischemic ARF, a model of neutrophil depletion was developed. Neutrophil-depleted mice had a small (18%) reduction in serum creatinine during ischemic ARF but no reduction in ATN score despite a lack of neutrophil infiltration in the kidney. Remarkably, caspase-1 activity and IL-18 were significantly increased in the kidney in neutrophil-depleted mice with ARF. In addition, IL-18 antiserum-treated neutrophil-depleted mice with ischemic ARF had a significant (75%) reduction in serum creatinine and a significant reduction in ATN score compared with vehicle-treated neutrophil-depleted mice. These results suggest a novel neutrophil-independent mechanism of IL-18-mediated ischemic ARF.
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- Vyacheslav Y Melnikov
- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, 4200 East 9th Avenue, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
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Melnikov VY, Faubel S, Siegmund B, Lucia MS, Ljubanovic D, Edelstein CL. Neutrophil-independent mechanisms of caspase-1– and IL-18–mediated ischemic acute tubular necrosis in mice. J Clin Invest 2002. [DOI: 10.1172/jci0215623] [Citation(s) in RCA: 242] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022] Open
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PURPOSE OF REVIEW Although the suppression of protein breakdown plays a major role in the growth of the adult kidney in conditions that cause renal hypertrophy, the pathways responsible for controlling proteolysis and the substrates being destroyed have only recently been investigated. This review focuses on the role of the ubiquitin-proteasome pathway in regulating specific substrates during kidney growth, and the role of the lysosomal pathways in the suppression of general protein breakdown and of the substrates of chaperone-mediated autophagy. RECENT FINDINGS New insights into the regulation of specific ubiquitin ligases demonstrate how the cell controls the destruction of particular substrates important for growth, including hypoxia-inducible factors and the cell cycle inhibitor, p27. In cell culture, growth factors suppress the lysosomal pathway of chaperone-mediated autophagy leading to the accumulation of specific cytoplasmic proteins containing KFERQ motifs. In a variety of systems, including cultured renal tubular cells, phosphoinositol 3 kinase activity and its downstream mediators control lysosomal proteolysis. SUMMARY Specific ubiquitin ligases and the pathways that control their substrate recognition may be key signalling intermediaries for cell growth, but global alterations in lysosomal pathways account for the decrease in general proteolysis. Functional KFERQ motifs mark proteins that are important in renal growth, including enzymes responsible for the characteristic shift to glycolytic metabolism during growth, transcription factors, and signalling molecules. As altering phosphoinositol 3 kinase changes patterns of vesicular trafficking, it is possible that the regulation of intracellular trafficking may underlie the changes seen in lysosomal proteolysis with growth.
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- Harold A Franch
- Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, USA; and Atlanta Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Decatur, Georgia, USA.
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Ischemia followed by reperfusion (I/R) has cardinal implications in the pathogenesis of organ transplantation and rejection. Apoptosis and inflammation are central mechanisms leading to organ damage in the course of renal I/R. General aspects of apoptosis, morphology, induction, and biochemistry are discussed. Activated caspases, the classical effector enzymes of apoptosis, are able to induce not only apoptosis but also inflammation after I/R in experimental models. This redefines the involvement of apoptosis in I/R injury toward a central and functional role in the development of organ damage. Our purpose is to assess aspects of apoptosis and inflammation in terms of involvement in the pathogenesis of I/R-induced organ damage. Moreover, the implications of recent experimental advances for diagnosis and treatment of renal I/R injury in clinical practice will be discussed.
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- Marc A R C Daemen
- Department of General Surgery, University of Maastricht, PO Box 616, 6200 MD Maastricht, The Netherlands
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Renal tubular cells die by apoptosis as well as necrosis in experimental models of ischemic and toxic acute renal failure as well as in humans with acute tubular necrosis. It is not yet possible, however, to determine the relative contribution of these two forms of cell death to loss of renal tubular cells in acute tubular necrosis. The beneficial effect of administering growth factors to animals with acute tubular necrosis is probably related to the potent antiapoptotic (survival) effects of growth factors as well as to their proliferative effects. Rapamycin inhibits both of these effects of growth factors and delays the recovery of renal function after acute tubular necrosis by inhibiting renal tubular cell regeneration and by increasing renal tubular cell loss by apoptosis. The administration of caspase inhibitors ameliorates ischemia-reperfusion injury in multiple organs including the kidney. However, the extent to which this protective effect of caspase inhibition is caused by reduced intrarenal inflammation, or by amelioration of renal tubular cell loss due to apoptosis, remains uncertain. In addition to caspase inhibition, the apoptotic pathway offers many potential targets for therapeutic interventions to prevent renal tubular cell apoptosis.
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- Ramon Bonegio
- Renal Section, Department of Medicine, Boston Medical Center, Boston University School of Medicine, Boston, Massachusetts 02118, USA
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Truong LD, Choi YJ, Tsao CC, Ayala G, Sheikh-Hamad D, Nassar G, Suki WN. Renal cell apoptosis in chronic obstructive uropathy: the roles of caspases. Kidney Int 2001; 60:924-34. [PMID: 11532087 DOI: 10.1046/j.1523-1755.2001.060003924.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 61] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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BACKGROUND Apoptosis of tubular and interstitial cells is well documented in kidneys with chronic obstructive uropathy (COU) and probably plays an important role in the pathogenesis of this condition. The molecular control of apoptosis in COU remains poorly understood. Apoptosis in general is known to proceed initially along distinct pathways, which later converge into a common arm characterized by orderly activation of caspases. Caspases are cytosolic enzymes that belong to a 12-member family and serve as effector molecules for apoptosis. The role of individual caspases in mediating renal cell apoptosis in kidneys with COU is studied. METHODS Kidneys were harvested from sham-operated mice and mice with COU created by left ureter ligation at days 4, 7, 15, 20, and 30. The following studies were performed: (1) determination of dried kidney weight; (2) in situ end labeling of fragmented DNA to detect apoptotic tubular and interstitial cells; (3) ribonuclease protection assay with specific anti-sense RNA probes for caspases 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, 9, 11, and 12 to detect the expression of individual caspases; (4) immunostaining for caspases; and (5) assay for caspase 3. To assess the role of caspases in COU-associated renal cell apoptosis, the frequencies of apoptotic tubular and interstitial cells were separately quantitated for each experimental time point, and their patterns of variation were correlated with those of individual caspases. RESULTS The obstructed kidneys showed progressive tissue loss (60% of control at day 15). Apoptosis of both tubular and interstitial cells was seen in obstructed kidneys. Tubular cell apoptosis peaked at four days after ureter ligation (13-fold of control), remained high between days 4 to 15, and thereafter decreased rapidly. Apoptotic interstitial cells were scanty initially, but gradually increased throughout the entire experiment. Apoptosis was minimal throughout the experiment in control and contralateral kidneys. In control and contralateral kidneys, caspases 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 mRNAs were expressed at low levels, whereas those for caspases 1, 11, and 12 were not detected. The obstructed kidneys displayed increased expression of all tested caspases. Caspases 1, 11, and 12 mRNAs were detected in obstructed kidneys in a common pattern characterized by a sharp increase at day 4, followed by a decrease until day 20, and a subsequent sharp increase until the end of the study at day 30. A similar pattern was noted for other caspases (2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9), which maximally reached twofold to fourfold that of controls. Immunostaining for caspases 1, 2, 3, 6, 7, 8, and 9 showed the same pattern characterized by focal and weak expression in proximal tubules of control or contralateral kidney, contrasting with increased staining in atrophic or dilated tubules of obstructed kidneys. Interstitial cells also displayed staining for several caspases, which paralleled the increasing density of interstitial cells toward the end of the experiment. Caspase-3 assay showed a marked increased activity in obstructed kidneys that reached fourfold and sevenfold of control at days 4 and 30, respectively. The rise and fall of caspase mRNAs between days 4 and 30 paralleled a similar fluctuation in tubular cell apoptosis. The subsequent increase of mRNAs was correlated with a continuous rise of interstitial cell apoptosis. CONCLUSIONS Urinary obstruction in mice induces apoptosis of both tubular and interstitial cells in the affected kidney in a distinctive pattern that parallels an increased expression of caspases. This correlation suggests that these caspases mediate COU-associated renal cell apoptosis. Among the evaluated caspases, increased renal caspase 3 activity implies its central role in renal cell apoptosis associated with urinary obstruction.
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- L D Truong
- Renal Pathology Laboratory, Department of Pathology, The Methodist Hospital and Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 77030, USA.
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Melnikov VY, Ecder T, Fantuzzi G, Siegmund B, Lucia MS, Dinarello CA, Schrier RW, Edelstein CL. Impaired IL-18 processing protects caspase-1-deficient mice from ischemic acute renal failure. J Clin Invest 2001; 107:1145-52. [PMID: 11342578 PMCID: PMC209282 DOI: 10.1172/jci12089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 324] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022] Open
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We sought to determine whether mice deficient in the proinflammatory caspase-1, which cleaves precursors of IL-1 beta and IL-18, were protected against ischemic acute renal failure (ARF). Caspase-1(-/-) mice developed less ischemic ARF as judged by renal function and renal histology. These animals had significantly reduced blood urea nitrogen and serum creatinine levels and a lower morphological tubular necrosis score than did wild-type mice with ischemic ARF. Since caspase-1 activates IL-18, lack of mature IL-18 might protect these caspase-1(-/-) mice from ARF. In wild-type animals, we found that ARF causes kidney IL-18 levels to more than double and induces the conversion of the IL-18 precursor to the mature form. This conversion is not observed in caspase-1(-/-) ARF mice or sham-operated controls. We then injected wild-type mice with IL-18-neutralizing antiserum before the ischemic insult and found a similar degree of protection from ARF as seen in caspase-1(-/-) mice. In addition, we observed a fivefold increase in myeloperoxidase activity in control mice with ARF, but no such increase in caspase-1(-/-) or IL-18 antiserum-treated mice. Finally, we confirmed histologically that caspase-1(-/-) mice show decreased neutrophil infiltration, indicating that the deleterious role of IL-18 in ischemic ARF may be due to increased neutrophil infiltration.
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- V Y Melnikov
- Department of Medicine, University of Colorado School of Medicine, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
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Daemen MA, Denecker G, van't Veer C, Wolfs TG, Vandenabeele P, Buurman WA. Activated caspase-1 is not a central mediator of inflammation in the course of ischemia-reperfusion. Transplantation 2001; 71:778-84. [PMID: 11330542 DOI: 10.1097/00007890-200103270-00016] [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: 01/04/2023]
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BACKGROUND Upon transplantation, donor organs subjected to prolonged ischemia suffer from reperfusion injury. Recent observations suggest that caspase activation is involved in inducing the deleterious inflammatory reaction that mediates reperfusion injury. Release of cytokines like interleukin (IL)-1 and IL-18 may occur during apoptosis through activation of caspase-1/IL-1beta-converting enzyme. We hypothesized that caspase-1 activation is a key event in apoptosis/ caspase-dependent inflammation during the development of renal reperfusion injury. METHODS Caspase-1-/-, caspase-1+/+ as well as Swiss mice were subjected to 45 min of renal ischemia and 24 hr of reperfusion. Animals were administered agents capable of neutralizing the pro-inflammatory activation products of caspase-1 (IL-1 receptor antagonist, anti-IL-1 receptor antibody, and anti-IL-18 antibody). The extent of renal functional deterioration, inflammation, and apoptosis were compared. RESULTS No improvement in renal function as reflected by serum ureum and creatinine were found in caspase-1-/- mice as compared to wild type controls. Caspase-1-/- mice showed slightly attenuated renal inflammation as indicated by decreased renal neutrophil influx, but failed to show changes in intrarenal tumor necrosis factor-alpha production. Moreover, caspase-1-/- mice clearly exhibited reperfusion-induced apoptosis as reflected by renal terminal deoxynucleotidyltransferase histology and internucleosomal DNA cleavage. Treatment with IL-1 receptor antagonist, anti-IL-1 receptor antibody, or anti-IL-18 antibody minimally reduced renal functional deterioration, inflammation, and apoptosis. CONCLUSIONS These findings suggest that activated caspase-1 and its inflammatory products are involved in, but not crucial to, the induction of inflammation after renal ischemia-reperfusion. Hence, apart from caspase-1, other (combinations of) activated caspases are likely to be more prominently involved in renal reperfusion injury.
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- M A Daemen
- Department of General Surgery, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands
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LAMEIRE NORBERT, VANHOLDER RAYMOND. Pathophysiologic Features and Prevention of Human and Experimental Acute Tubular Necrosis. J Am Soc Nephrol 2001. [DOI: 10.1681/asn.v12suppl_1s20] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022] Open
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Abstract.Acute renal failure (ARF) remains a common and potentially devastating disorder that affects as many as 5% of all hospitalized patients, with a higher prevalence in patients in critical care units. The focus of this article is on categorizing recent pathophysiologic and clinically relevant developments in the field. The vascular and tubular factors in the pathogenesis of ARF, together with the potential mechanisms of recovery and repair of the injured kidney, are discussed. A number of experimental and clinical interventions to prevent. ARF are summarized. Although the clinical treatment of these patients is still largely supportive and many recent clinical trials showed rather negative results, it is hoped that basic research will provide therapeutic tools to improve the grim prognosis of this disease in the future.
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Nakamichi K, Kuroki D, Matsumoto Y, Otsuka H. Bovine herpesvirus 1 glycoprotein G is required for prevention of apoptosis and efficient viral growth in rabbit kidney cells. Virology 2001; 279:488-98. [PMID: 11162805 DOI: 10.1006/viro.2000.0740] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/20/2023]
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In rabbit kidney (RK13) cells, gG-negative BHV-1 exhibited significant defects in plaque formation and growth compared to that of gG-positive BHV-1. RK13 cells infected with gG-negative BHV-1 exhibited a distinctive CPE and contained a larger number of cells stained with trypan blue dye compared to those infected with gG-positive strains, suggesting that gG-negative BHV-1 inflicted more damage to the infected cells than gG-positive BHV-1. Apoptotic cell death was induced in RK13 cells infected with gG-negative BHV-1 within 8 h. In contrast, the onset of apoptosis in gG-positive BHV-1-infected RK13 cells was around 12-16 h postinfection. In the presence of caspase inhibitor Z-Asp-CH2-DCB, multiplication of gG-negative minus BHV-1 was significantly increased. These results demonstrate that BHV-1 gG is involved in stabilizing the cell structure, postponing apoptotic process, and efficient BHV-1 replication in infected RK13 cells.
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- K Nakamichi
- Department of Global Agricultural Sciences, Graduate School of Agricultural and Life Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Yayoi 1-1-1, Tokyo, Bunkyo-ku, 113-8657, Japan
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Hortelano S, Castilla M, Torres AM, Tejedor A, Boscá L. Potentiation by nitric oxide of cyclosporin A and FK506-induced apoptosis in renal proximal tubule cells. J Am Soc Nephrol 2000; 11:2315-2323. [PMID: 11095654 DOI: 10.1681/asn.v11122315] [Citation(s) in RCA: 54] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/05/2023] Open
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Proximal tubular epithelial cells (PTEC) exhibit a high sensitivity to undergo apoptosis in response to proinflammatory stimuli and immunosuppressors and participate in the onset of several renal diseases. This study examined the expression of inducible nitric oxide (NO) synthase after challenge of PTEC with bacterial cell wall molecules and inflammatory cytokines and analyzed the pathways that lead to apoptosis in these cells by measuring changes in the mitochondrial transmembrane potential and caspase activation. The data show that the apoptotic effects of proinflammatory stimuli mainly were due to the expression of inducible NO synthase. Cyclosporin A and FK506 inhibited partially NO synthesis. However, both NO and immunosuppressors induced apoptosis, probably through a common mechanism that involved the irreversible opening of the mitochondrial permeability transition pore. Activation of caspases 3 and 7 was observed in cells treated with high doses of NO and with moderate concentrations of immunosuppressors. The conclusion is that the cooperation between NO and immunosuppressors that induce apoptosis in PTEC might contribute to the renal toxicity observed in the course of immunosuppressive therapy.
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- Sonsoles Hortelano
- Institute of Biochemistry (CSIC-UCM), Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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- Experimental Medicine and Surgery Unit, Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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- Experimental Medicine and Surgery Unit, Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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- Experimental Medicine and Surgery Unit, Gregorio Marañón University General Hospital, Madrid, Spain
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- Institute of Biochemistry (CSIC-UCM), Faculty of Pharmacy, Complutense University, Madrid, Spain
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Shi Y, Melnikov VY, Schrier RW, Edelstein CL. Downregulation of the calpain inhibitor protein calpastatin by caspases during renal ischemia-reperfusion. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol 2000; 279:F509-17. [PMID: 10966930 DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.2000.279.3.f509] [Citation(s) in RCA: 62] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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The interaction between the cysteine proteases calpain and caspases during renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) was investigated. An increase in the activity of calpain, as determined by 1) the appearance of calpain-mediated spectrin breakdown products and 2) the conversion of procalpain to active calpain, was demonstrated. Because intracellular calpain activity is regulated by calpastatin, the effect of I/R on calpastatin was determined. On immunoblot of renal cortex, there was a 50-100% decrease of a low molecular weight (LMW) form of calpastatin (41 kDa) after I/R. Calpastatin activity was also significantly decreased after I/R compared with sham-operated rats, indicating that the decreased protein expression had functional significance. In rats treated with the caspase inhibitor, z-Asp-2,6-dichlorobenzoyloxymethylketone (Z-D-DCB), the decrease in both calpastatin activity and protein expression was normalized, suggesting that caspases may be proteolyzing calpastatin. Caspase 3 activity increased significantly after I/R and was attenuated in ischemic kidneys from rats treated with the caspase inhibitor. In summary, during renal I/R injury, there is 1) calpain activation associated with downregulation of calpastatin protein and decreased calpastatin activity and 2) activation of caspase 3. In addition, in vivo caspase inhibition reverses the decrease in calpastatin activity. In conclusion, proteolysis of calpastatin by caspase 3 may regulate calpain activity during I/R injury. Although the protective effect of cysteine protease inhibition against hypoxic necrosis of proximal tubules has previously been demonstrated, the functional significance in ischemic acute renal failure in vivo merits further study.
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- Division of Renal Diseases and Hypertension, University of Colorado Health Sciences Center, Denver, Colorado 80262, USA
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