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ArticleJournal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN2015

Disruption of renal tubular mitochondrial quality control by Myo-inositol oxygenase in diabetic kidney disease.

Ming Zhan, Irtaza M Usman, Lin Sun, Yashpal S Kanwar

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Article in Journal of the American Society of Nephrology : JASN, 2015. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 182 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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182citing papers in PubMed, 1 pooled it
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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

182 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 282 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Ming ZhanDepartments of Pathology and Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Irtaza M UsmanDepartments of Pathology and Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Lin SunDepartments of Pathology and Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois.
Yashpal S KanwarDepartments of Pathology and Medicine, Northwestern University, Chicago, Illinois y-kanwar@northwestern.edu.
Northwestern University · US

Funding

Pathogenesis of Diabetic NephropathyR01DK060635 · NIDDK · NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY AT CHICAGO · PI QUAGGIN, SUSAN E. · 2002 to 2023
$6.6M
NIDDK NIH HHS DK60635NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK060635
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is associated with oxidative stress and mitochondrial injury. Myo-inositol oxygenase (MIOX), a tubular-specific enzyme, modulates redox imbalance and apoptosis in tubular cells in diabetes, but these mechanisms remain unclear. We investigated the role of MIOX in perturbation of mitochondrial quality control, including mitochondrial dynamics and autophagy/mitophagy, under high-glucose (HG) ambience or a diabetic state. HK-2 or LLC-PK1 cells subjected to HG exhibited an upregulation of MIOX accompanied by mitochondrial fragmentation and depolarization, inhibition of autophagy/mitophagy, and altered expression of mitochondrial dynamic and mitophagic proteins. Furthermore, dysfunctional mitochondria accumulated in the cytoplasm, which coincided with increased reactive oxygen species generation, Bax activation, cytochrome C release, and apoptosis. Overexpression of MIOX in LLC-PK1 cells enhanced the effects of HG, whereas MIOX siRNA or d-glucarate, an inhibitor of MIOX, partially reversed these perturbations. Moreover, decreasing the expression of MIOX under HG ambience increased PTEN-induced putative kinase 1 expression and the dependent mitofusin-2-Parkin interaction. In tubules of diabetic mice, increased MIOX expression and mitochondrial fragmentation and defective autophagy were observed. Dietary supplementation of d-glucarate in diabetic mice decreased MIOX expression, attenuated tubular damage, and improved renal functions. Notably, d-glucarate administration also partially attenuated mitochondrial fragmentation, oxidative stress, and apoptosis and restored autophagy/mitophagy in the tubular cells of these mice. These results suggest a novel mechanism linking MIOX to impaired mitochondrial quality control during tubular injury in the pathogenesis of DKD and suggest d-glucarate as a potential therapeutic agent for the amelioration of DKD.

Indexed as

AnimalsApoptosisBlotting, WesternCells, CulturedDiabetes Mellitus, ExperimentalDiabetic NephropathiesDisease Models, AnimalGene Expression RegulationGlucuronatesImmunohistochemistryInositol OxygenaseKidney Function TestsKidney TubulesLLC-PK1 CellsMaleMiceGlucuronatesInositol OxygenaseReactive Oxygen SpeciesStreptozocinapoptosisdiabetic nephropathymitochondriaoxidative stresstubule cells

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PMID25270067
PMCPMC4446875
OpenAlexW2169378494

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