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ABSTRACT: Background
Accumulation of extracellular matrix in organs and tissues is a feature of both aging and disease. In the kidney, glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis accompany the decline in function, which current therapies cannot address, leading to organ failure. Although histologic and ultrastructural patterns of excess matrix form the basis of human disease classifications, a comprehensive molecular resolution of abnormal matrix is lacking.Methods
Using mass spectrometry-based proteomics, we resolved matrix composition over age in mouse models of kidney disease. We compared the changes in mice with a global characterization of human kidneymatrix during aging and to existing kidney disease datasets to identify common molecular features.Results
Ultrastructural changes in basement membranes are associated with altered cell adhesion and metabolic processes and with distinct matrix proteomes during aging and kidney disease progression in mice. Within the altered matrix, basement membrane components (laminins, type IV collagen, type XVIII collagen) were reduced and interstitial matrix proteins (collagens I, III, VI, and XV; fibrinogens; and nephronectin) were increased, a pattern also seen in human kidney aging. Indeed, this signature of matrix proteins was consistently modulated across all age and disease comparisons, and the increase in interstitial matrix was also observed in human kidney disease datasets.Conclusions
This study provides deep molecular resolution of matrix accumulation in kidney aging and disease, and identifies a common signature of proteins that provides insight into mechanisms of response to kidney injury and repair.
SUBMITTER: Randles MJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC8425653 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Randles Michael J MJ Lausecker Franziska F Kong Qingyang Q Suleiman Hani H Reid Graeme G Kolatsi-Joannou Maria M Davenport Bernard B Tian Pinyuan P Falcone Sara S Falcone Sara S Potter Paul P Van Agtmael Tom T Norman Jill T JT Long David A DA Humphries Martin J MJ Miner Jeffrey H JH Lennon Rachel R
Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN 20210528 7
<h4>Background</h4>Accumulation of extracellular matrix in organs and tissues is a feature of both aging and disease. In the kidney, glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis accompany the decline in function, which current therapies cannot address, leading to organ failure. Although histologic and ultrastructural patterns of excess matrix form the basis of human disease classifications, a comprehensive molecular resolution of abnormal matrix is lacking.<h4>Methods</h4>Using mass spectr ...[more]