Project description:To annotate the regulatory elements in the renal tubule epithelial cells, we profiled 6 histone ChIP-seq in the human kidney epithelical cells (HKC8). We pulled down the DNA with specific antibodies of interests against histone tail modifications in the human rebal tubule epithelial cells. The result can be interpretated with ChromHMM for different states.
Project description:To annotate the regulatory elements in the renal tubule epithelial cells, we profiled 6 histone ChIP-seq in the human kidney epithelical cells (HKC8).
Project description:Methylmalonic acidemia (MMA) is one of the most common inherited metabolic disorders, due to deficiency of the mitochondrial methylmalonyl ̶ coenzyme A mutase (MUT). How MUT deficiency triggers mitochondrial alterations and cell damage remains unknown, preventing the development of disease-modifying therapies. To assess the effect of MUT deficiency on gene expression we investigated the transcriptome of in kidney cells derived from healthy controls or patients with MMA who harbor inactivating mutations in MUT. Microarray data indicate that MUT deficiency induces a profound and global change in gene expression that may be in part responsible of cellular alterations observed in patient cells.
Project description:Global gene expression in the primary cultured mouse kidney proximal tubule cells treated either DMSO or 1uM GW4064 (a FXR agonist) was compared. Results provide insight into mechanisms underlying effects of FXR activation on gene expression in mouse kidney proximal tubule cells. Male C57/BJ mice aged 6 weeks were sacrificed under anesthesia and kidney proximal tubule cells were cultured until confluent. Cells were treated with either GW4064 (1uM) or equal amount of DMSO and incubated for 24 hours. 4 total RNA samples per group were analyzed and gene expression was compared between the groups.
Project description:Injury to the proximal tubule plays a central role in the initiation and progression of kidney fibrosis, and rates of chronic kidney disease progresses approximately 50% faster in males compared to females. We applied Translating Ribosome Affinity Purification (TRAP) followed by RNA-sequencing to characterize the cell-specific proximal tubule transcriptional landscape during fibrosis in male vs. female mice.
Project description:TGFbeta is the major cytokine driver of fibrosis in the kidney and other tissue. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition has been postulated to contibrute to renal fibrosis in diseases such as diabetic nephropathy. We wished to identify novel genes that were upregulated in human kidney epithelial cells in response to TGFb1.The transcriptional responses for human proximal tubule epithelial cells to 10 ng/ml TGFbeta1 was examined over 24 and 48 hr
Project description:Global gene expression in primary cultured mouse kidney proximal tubule cells treated with either DMSO or 1uM GW4064 (an FXR agonist) was compared. Results provide insight into mechanisms underlying effects of FXR activation on gene expression in mouse kidney proximal tubule cells.
Project description:TGFbeta is the major cytokine driver of fibrosis in the kidney and other tissue. Epithelial-mesenchymal transition has been postulated to contibrute to renal fibrosis in diseases such as diabetic nephropathy. We wished to identify novel genes that were upregulated in human kidney epithelial cells in response to TGFb1.The transcriptional responses for human proximal tubule epithelial cells to 10 ng/ml TGFbeta1 was examined over 24 and 48 hr There were three treatment groups: vehicle, 24hr TGFb1, 48 hr TGFb1. Each treatment was carried out in triplicate 10 cm plates and the experiment was carried out in triplicate using consecutive passages of cells.
Project description:The cellular mechanisms of kidney tubule repair are poorly characterized in human. Here, we applied single-cell RNA sequencing to analyze the kidney in the first days after acute injury in 5 patients with severe COVID19. We found that tubule repair follows two converging patterns involving the plasticity of mature tubule cells and the expansion and differentiation of progenitor-like cells. Tubule repair by cell plasticity displayed substantial similarities between mouse and man and determined the transient expansion of undifferentiated tubule cells with altered functional and metabolic properties. Progenitor-like cells marked by PROM1 proliferated in response to injury and followed a differentiation process characterized by the sequential activation of the WNT, NOTCH and HIPPO signaling pathways. Taken together, our analyses reveal cell state transitions and fundamental cellular hierarchies underlying kidney injury and repair in patients.
Project description:Incomplete repair after acute kidney injury (AKI) is associated with progressive loss of tubular cell function and development of chronic kidney disease (CKD). Here, we compared the kidney single-cell transcriptomes from the mice subjected to either unilateral ischemia-reperfusion kidney injury with contralateral nephrectomy (IRI/CL-NX, in which tubule repair predominates) or unilateral IRI with contralateral kidney intact (U-IRI, in which fibrosis and atrophy predominates) to investigate the mechanism(s) underlying transition to CKD following AKI.