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ArticleKidney international2009

C3G overexpression in glomerular epithelial cells during anti-GBM-induced glomerulonephritis.

Victoriya A Rufanova, Elias Lianos, Anna Alexanian, Elena Sorokina, Mukut Sharma, Ann McGinty, Andrey Sorokin

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Article in Kidney international, 2009. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5citing papers in PubMed
0.7field-weighted citation impact, top 31% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

5 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Victoriya A RufanovaDivision of Nephrology and Kidney Disease Center, Department of Medicine, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
Elias Lianos
Anna Alexanian
Elena Sorokina
Mukut Sharma
Ann McGinty
Andrey Sorokin
Medical College of Wisconsin · USNational and Kapodistrian University of Athens · GRUniversity of Ulster · GB

Funding

PROSTAGLANDINS--THE KIDNEY AND HYPERTENSIONR01HL022563 · NHLBI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI SOROKIN, ANDREY · 1985 to 2006
$2.9M
EICOSANOIDS &PLATELET ACTIVATING FACTOR IN RENAL INJURYR01DK041684 · NIDDK · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI SOROKIN, ANDREY · 1989 to 2009
$2.3M
PROSTAGLANDINS--THE KIDNEY AND HYPERTENSIONR37HL022563 · NHLBI · MEDICAL COLLEGE OF WISCONSIN · PI DUNN, MICHAEL J · 1989 to 1998
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NHLBI NIH HHS HL22563NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL022563NIDDK NIH HHS DK41684NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK041684
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The guanine nucleotide exchange factor C3G, along with the CrkII adaptor protein, mediates GTP activation of the small GTPase proteins Rap1 and R-Ras, facilitating their activation of downstream signaling pathways, which had been found to be important in the pathogenesis of glomerulonephritis. We found that expression of C3G protein was upregulated in glomerular epithelial cells in an experimental model of accelerated anti-GBM antibody-induced glomerulonephritis expression. To determine the consequence of its increased expression, we transfected C3G (using adenoviral constructs) into cultured glomerular epithelial cells and measured the activated forms (i.e., GTP-bound) forms of Rap1 and R-Ras. Activation of Rap1 was not affected by C3G; however, the basal level of GTP-bound R-Ras was decreased. Further, C3G over-expression enhanced the activation of R-Ras in response to endothelin. Overexpression of C3G also led to a significant reduction in glomerular epithelial cell spreading and decreased the cells' E-cadherin expression and augmented their migration. We found that C3G was overexpressed in accelerated anti-GBM antibody-induced glomerulonephritis and suggest that this modulates glomerular epithelial cell morphology and behavior.

Indexed as

AnimalsAutoantibodiesCadherinsCell AdhesionCell MovementEpithelial CellsGene ExpressionGlomerulonephritisGuanine Nucleotide-Releasing Factor 2Kidney GlomerulusMaleRatsRats, Sprague-Dawleyantiglomerular basement membrane antibodyAutoantibodiesCadherinsGuanine Nucleotide-Releasing Factor 2

Identifiers

PMID18784646
PMCPMC3796949
OpenAlexW2008958180

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