Project description:The activation of hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIF) leading to the expression of hundreds of target genes is a fundamental mechanism in acute and chronic kidney disease, mediating protective but possibly harmful effects. Furthermore, dysregulation of the HIF pathway in chronic kidney disease causes renal anemia through insufficient erythropoietin (EPO) induction in interstitial cells. RNA-seq analysis was performed in human primary renal tubular cells to analyse the effect of HIF stabilization on the expression of genes in tubular cells. ATAC-seq and HIF-CHIP-seq complement the data to analyse transcription factor binding and chromatin configuration changes.
Project description:The activation of hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIF) leading to the expression of hundreds of target genes is a fundamental mechanism in acute and chronic kidney disease, mediating protective but possibly harmful effects. Furthermore, dysregulation of the HIF pathway in chronic kidney disease causes renal anemia through insufficient erythropoietin (EPO) induction in interstitial cells. RNA-seq analysis was performed in human primary renal tubular cells to analyse the effect of HIF stabilization on the expression of genes in tubular cells. ATAC-seq and HIF-CHIP-seq complement the data to analyse transcription factor binding and chromatin configuration changes.
Project description:The activation of hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIF) leading to the expression of hundreds of target genes is a fundamental mechanism in acute and chronic kidney disease, mediating protective but possibly harmful effects. Furthermore, dysregulation of the HIF pathway in chronic kidney disease causes renal anemia through insufficient erythropoietin (EPO) induction in interstitial cells. RNA-seq analysis was performed in human primary renal tubular cells to analyse the effect of HIF stabilization on the expression of genes in tubular cells. ATAC-seq and HIF-CHIP-seq complement the data to analyse transcription factor binding and chromatin configuration changes.
Project description:Activation of hypoxia-inducible transcription factors (HIF) leading to expression of hundred of target genes is a fundamental mechanism in acute and chronic kidney disease mediating protective but also possibly harmful effects. Furthermore, dysregulation of the HIF pathway in chronic kidney disease causes renal anemia through insufficient induction of erythropoietin (EPO) in interstitial cells. Hence, pharmacological compounds to treat renal anemia by stabilizing HIF have recently been introduced to the clinical practice. RNA-seq analysis was performed in primary renal tubular cells to analyse the effect of HIF stabilization on the expression of pathogenic Mucin1 (MUC1) variants. This study links the regulation of the kidney-disease gene MUC1 with the HIF-pathway in renal tubular cells.
Project description:Exercise is an effective intervention for diabetic nephropathy (DN), but its molecular mechanisms remain incompletely understood. Here, we identify cysteine dioxygenase type 1 (Cdo1) as a mediator of exercise-induced renal protection. Exercise upregulates renal tubular Cdo1 expression via the α-ketoglutarate-TET-DNA demethylation pathway. Tubular epithelial cell-specific deletion of Cdo1 exacerbates DN and attenuates exercise-mediated alleviation of DN, whereas Cdo1 overexpression improves renal function and synergizes with exercise in ameliorating DN. Mechanistically, tubular Cdo1 promotes taurine production, which suppresses macrophage glycolysis and inflammatory activation by disrupting PKM2-HIF-1α interaction. Taurine supplementation rescues kidney injury in Cdo1-deficient mice, and alleviates DN in synergy with exercise. Thus, exercise ameliorates DN through Cdo1-mediated metabolic crosstalk between renal tubules and macrophages via the taurine-PKM2-HIF-1α axis.