Podocyte-Specific Loss of Kruppel-Like Factor 6 Increases Mitochondrial Injury in Diabetic Kidney Disease.

ABSTRACT: Mitochondrial injury is uniformly observed in several murine models as well as in individuals with diabetic kidney disease (DKD). Although emerging evidence has highlighted the role of key transcriptional regulators in mitochondrial biogenesis, little is known about the regulation of mitochondrial cytochrome c oxidase assembly in the podocyte under diabetic conditions. We recently reported a critical role of the zinc finger Krüppel-like factor 6 (KLF6) in maintaining mitochondrial function and preventing apoptosis in a proteinuric murine model. In this study, we report that podocyte-specific knockdown of Klf6 increased the susceptibility to streptozotocin-induced DKD in the resistant C57BL/6 mouse strain. We observed that the loss of KLF6 in podocytes reduced the expression o

SUBMITTER: Horne SJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6198342 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature