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ArticleSignal transduction and targeted therapy2026

Hypoxia inducible factor network reflects kidney disease progression in diabetes and sodium-glucose co-transporters inhibition.

Viji Nair, Akihiro Minakawa, Cathy Smith, Celine C Berthier, John Hartman, Rajasree Menon, Damian Fermin, Edgar A Otto, Debora L Gisch, Michael T Eadon and 17 more

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Viji Nair *Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Akihiro Minakawa *Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Cathy Smith *Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-1518-9320
Celine C Berthier *Department of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
John HartmanDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Rajasree MenonDepartment of Computational Medicine and Bioinformatics, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Damian FerminDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Edgar A OttoDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Debora L GischIndiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-9087-4585
Michael T EadonIndiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis, IN, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-3066-2876
Sanjay JainDepartment of Medicine, Washington University in Saint Louis, St. Louis, MO, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2804-127X
Ye Ji ChoiDepartment of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
Laura PyleDepartment of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
Felix EichingerDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Fadhl M AlakwaaDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Michael P RoseDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8661-5134
Lalita SubramanianDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Jamal El SaghirDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-3779-4583
Jeffrey A BeamishDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Jeffrey B HodginDepartment of Pathology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Frank C BrosiusDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4244-8335
Petter BjornstadDepartment of Medicine, Division of Metabolism, Endocrinology and Nutrition, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, WA, USA.
Peter J NelsonDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Jennifer L HarderDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-7927-608X
Thomas WernerDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA.
Matthias KretzlerDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. kretzler@umich.edu.
Jennifer A SchaubDepartment of Internal Medicine, Division of Nephrology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA. schaubj@umich.edu.

Funding

Regional Pilot And Feasibility Study Grants ProgramP30DK020572 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Mehboob A Hussain · 2013 to 2026
$24.3M
Central Hub for Kidney Precision MedicineU24DK114886 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Jonathan Himmelfarb, Matthias Kretzler · 2022 to 2026
$21.1M
KPMP Kidney Mapping and Atlas Project (KMAP)U01DK133090 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Jonathan Himmelfarb, Matthias Kretzler · 2022 to 2026
$10.4M
Kidney single cell and spatial molecular atlas project - KIDSSMAPU54DK134301 · NIDDK · WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI JAIN, SANJAY · 2022 to 2025
$7.8M
University of Michigan O'Brien Kidney Translational Resource Center (MKTC)U54DK137314 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Salim Hayek · 2023 to 2026
$4.7M
Unraveling the Impact of Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances on Early Kidney Injury in Adolescents with Obesity and DiabetesR01DK129211 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Petter Bjornstad · 2021 to 2026
$3.9M
Immunometabolism and the Cardio-Renal Axis in T1D-associated Atherosclerosis: Insights from the CaRe T1D BiobankU01DK142249 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Petter Bjornstad, Karin E Bornfeldt · 2024 to 2026
$3.2M
PREcision Medicine through IntErrogation of Rna in the kidnEy (PREMIERE)U01DK114907 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Nir Hacohen, Jeffrey Benton Hodgin · 2022 to 2026
$3.2M
Pathogenesis of kidney disease in type 1 diabetes: a modern kidney biopsy cohortR01DK132399 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI Petter Bjornstad, Ian H de Boer · 2022 to 2026
$3.0M
Type 1 Diabetes Impacts of Semaglutide on Cardiovascular Outcomes (T1-DISCO)R01HL165433 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI BJORNSTAD, PETTER, NADEAU, KRISTEN JANE · 2022 to 2025
$2.4M
Safety and Efficacy of Human Clinical Trials Using Kidney-on-a-Chip Microphysiological SystemsUH3TR003288 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI FREEDMAN, BENJAMIN SOLOMON, HIMMELFARB, JONATHAN · 2022 to 2024
$2.3M
Advancing ADPKD Treatment with GLP-1RA: A Study of Glucagon-Like Peptide-1 Receptor Agonists' Efficacy, Safety, and MechanismR01DK138915 · NIDDK · UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO DENVER · PI Petter Bjornstad, Kristen Lynn Nowak · 2024 to 2026
$2.0M
NCATS NIH HHS UH3 TR003288NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL165433NIDDK NIH HHS K08 DK124449NIDDK NIH HHS K08 DK125776NIDDK NIH HHS P30 DK020572NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK129211NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK132399NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK137844NIDDK NIH HHS R01 DK138915NIDDK NIH HHS R03 DK138962NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK142249NIDDK NIH HHS U01 DK144965U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) K08DK124449U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) R03DK138962U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) U01DK114907U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) U01DK133090U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) U24DK114886U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) U54DK134301U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases (National Institute of Diabetes & Digestive & Kidney Diseases) U54DK137314
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Hypoxia drives diabetic kidney disease (DKD) progression through Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF) signaling. The kidney's cellular heterogeneity and complex architecture pose challenges for directly assessing the pharmacologic effects on kidney oxygenation and hypoxia-responsive pathways in vivo, such as treatment with SGLT2 inhibitors (SGLT2i), presumed to impact kidney oxygenation. Using single-cell transcriptional profiling of kidney tissue from youth with type 2 diabetes (T2D) who showed minimal clinical evidence of DKD, we identified cell type enrichment of HIF-regulated genes, findings that replicated in people with later-stage DKD in the Kidney Precision Medicine Project (KPMP). Using conserved transcription factor (TF) binding motifs, higher-order promoter regulatory structures identified potential cooperating TFs that explained the cell type enrichment pattern. From these promoter elements, 7 interconnected regulatory pathways were identified, comprising a network of 237 genes. Analysis of multiome data from reference tissue in KPMP demonstrated that 80% of the network genes resided in accessible chromatin. Expression of network genes increased significantly in the late compared to the early stage DKD and was validated in a hypoxic human organoid model system. Kidney tissue from individuals with T2D treated with SGLT2i demonstrated reversal of the accumulated changes in the HIF network compared to those not treated with SGLT2i. Most high-confidence genes showed concordant differential expression in spatial transcriptomics from individuals with T2D. Hypoxic kidney organoids treated with SGLT2i confirmed these protective effects. Our promoter-anchored HIF regulatory network provides a multi-component read-out that captures disease progression and quantifies therapeutic response to SGLT2i.

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Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2Diabetic NephropathiesSodium-Glucose Transporter 2Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 InhibitorsDisease ProgressionGene Expression RegulationGene Regulatory NetworksHumansKidneySLC5A2 protein, humanSodium-Glucose Transporter 2Sodium-Glucose Transporter 2 Inhibitors

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PMID42009641
PMCPMC13096240

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