Project description:Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetic disease of the kidney characterized by the gradual replacement of normal kidney parenchyma by fluid-filled cysts and fibrotic tissue. Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is caused by mutations in the PKD1 or PKD2 gene. Here we present an RNASeq experiment designed to investigate the effect of a kidney specific and Tamoxifen inducible knockout of the Pkd1 gene in mice. The Pkd1cko mice were harvested at different time points 2-weeks, 3-weeks, 5-weeks, 10.5-weeks, 11-weeks and 15-weeks after gene inactivation.
Project description:Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) is a genetic disease of the kidney characterized by the gradual replacement of normal kidney parenchyma by fluid-filled cysts and fibrotic tissue. Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD) is caused by mutations in the PKD1 or PKD2 gene. Here we present an RNASeq experiment designed to investigate the effect of a kidney specific and Tamoxifen inducible knockout of the Pkd1 gene in mice. 7 mice were grouped into two groups, 4 Tamoxifen treated mice which develop an adult onset Polycystic Kidney Disease phenotype and 3 untreated mice which have WT phenotype.
Project description:Background: In autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) there is an unmet need for early markers of rapid disease progression to facilitate counseling and selection for kidney-protective therapy. Our aim was to identify markers for rapid disease progression in urinary extracellular vesicles (uEVs). Methods: uEVs were isolated at baseline in two independent cohorts including patients with rapid disease progression and stable disease; patients were matched by age, sex, total kidney volume and mutation. uEV biomarker candidates were identified by mass spectrometry and further analyzed in a third and fourth cohort using immunoblotting and an enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA). Single-nucleotide RNA sequencing of healthy and ADPKD tissue was used to confirm findings and identify the cellular origin of the uEV biomarker. Results: In the first two cohorts matrix metalloproteinase-7 (MMP-7) was significantly higher in uEVs of patients with rapid disease progression compared to stable disease. In the third cohort, immunoblotting confirmed a >2-fold increase in uEV-MMP-7 in patients with rapid disease progression compared to stable disease. In the fourth cohort, whole urine rather than uEVs were analyzed with MMP-7 ELISA demonstrating a significant but weak correlation with kidney function decline. Single-nucleotide RNA sequencing showed higher MMP-7 expression in ADPKD kidney tissue than in healthy kidney tissue and localized MMP-7 to the proximal tubule and thick ascending limb. Conclusion: uEV-associated MMP-7 is elevated in ADPKD patients with rapid disease progression and should be further investigated as predictive biomarker. Our findings also suggests that MMP-7 performs better when analyzed in uEVs than in whole urine.
Project description:Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (ADPKD; MIM ID’s 173900, 601313, 613095) leads to end stage kidney disease, caused by mutations in PKD1 or PKD2. Inactivation of Pkd1 before or after P13 in mice results in distinct early- or late-onset disease. Using a mouse model of ADPKD carrying floxed Pkd1 alleles disrupted using a tamoxifen-inducible Cre recombinase, transcriptomics and metabolomics were applied to follow disease progression in animals induced before P10. Network analysis suggests that Pkd1-cystogenesis does not cause developmental arrest and occurs in the context of gene networks similar to those that regulate/maintain normal kidney morphology/function. These analyses also predict metabolic pathways, notably those controlled by HNF4α, are key elements in postnatal kidney maturation and early steps of cyst formation. To test this hypothesis, metabolic networks were altered by inactivating Hnf4a and Pkd1. The Pkd1/Hnf4a double knock-out have significantly more cystic kidneys thus indicating that modulating metabolic pathways might be an effective therapeutic approach.
Project description:Little is known about the genes involved in the initial cyst formation and disease progression in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD). To uncover the genetic determinants and molecular mechanisms of ADPKD, we analyzed 4-point time-series DNA microarrays from Pkd1L3/L3 mice to generate high-resolution gene expression profiles at different stages of disease progression. We found different characteristic gene expression signatures in the kidneys of Pkd1L3/L3 mice compared to age-matched controls during the initial phase of the disease. By postnatal week 1, the Pkd1L3/L3 kidney already had a distinctive gene expression pattern considerably different from the corresponding normal controls. The genes differentially expressed, either induced or repressed, in ADPKD are important in immune defense, cell structure and motility, cellular proliferation, apoptosis and metabolic processes, and include members of three pathways (Wnt, Notch, and BMP) involved in morphogenetic signaling. Further analysis of the gene expression profiles from the early stage of cystogenesis to end stage disease identified a possible gene network involved in the pathogenesis of ADPKD.
Project description:To elucidate the molecular pathways that modulate renal cyst growth in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) Keywords: Disease state analysis We performed global gene profiling on renal cysts of different size (small cysts: less than 1 ml, n=5; medium cysts: between 10-25 ml, n=5; large cysts: greater than 50 ml, n=3) and minimally cystic tissue (MCT, n=5) from five PKD1 polycystic kidneys. Additionally, non-cancerous renal cortical tissue from three nephrectomized kidneys with isolated renal cell carcinoma was used as normal control tissue (n=3). This dataset is part of the TransQST collection.