TFEB AND TFE3 DRIVE KIDNEY CYSTOGENESIS AND TUMORIGENESIS

ABSTRACT: Birt-Hogg-Dubé (BHD) syndrome is an inherited cancer syndrome characterized by the development of cutaneous lesions, pulmonary cysts, renal tumors and cysts and caused by loss-of-function pathogenic variants in the gene encoding the tumor-suppressor protein folliculin (FLCN). FLCN acts as a negative regulator of TFEB and TFE3 transcription factors, master controllers of lysosomal biogenesis and autophagy, by enabling their phosphorylation by the mechanistic Target Of Rapamycin Complex 1 (mTORC1). We have previously shown that deletion of Tfeb rescued the renal cystic phenotype of kidney-specific Flcn KO mice. Using Flcn/Tfeb/Tfe3 double and triple KO mice we now show that both Tfeb and Tfe3 contribute, in a differential and cooperative manner, to kidney cystogenesis. Remarkably, analysis o

SUBMITTER: Dr. Chiara Di Malta 

PROVIDER: S-SCDT-10_15252-EMMM_202216877 | biostudies-other |

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other