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Intronic locus determines SHROOM3 expression and potentiates renal allograft fibrosis.

ABSTRACT: Fibrosis underlies the loss of renal function in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and in kidney transplant recipients with chronic allograft nephropathy (CAN). Here, we studied the effect of an intronic SNP in SHROOM3, which has previously been linked to CKD, on the development of CAN in a prospective cohort of renal allograft recipients. The presence of the rs17319721 allele at the SHROOM3 locus in the donor correlated with increased SHROOM3 expression in the allograft. In vitro, we determined that the sequence containing the risk allele at rs17319721 is a transcription factor 7-like 2-dependent (TCF7L2-dependent) enhancer element that functions to increase SHROOM3 transcription. In renal tubular cells, TGF-?1 administration upregulated SHROOM3 expression in a ?-catenin/TCF7L2-mediated manner, while SHROOM3 in turn facilitated canonical TGF-?1 signaling and increased ?1 collagen (COL1A1) expression. Inducible and tubular cell-specific knockdown of Shroom3 markedly abrogated interstitial fibrosis in mice with unilateral ureteric obstruction. Moreover, SHROOM3 expression in allografts at 3 months after transplant and the presence of the SHROOM3 risk allele in the donor correlated with increased allograft fibrosis and with reduced estimated glomerular filtration rate at 12 months after transplant. Our findings suggest that rs17319721 functions as a cis-acting expression quantitative trait locus of SHROOM3 that facilitates TGF-?1 signaling and contributes to allograft injury.

SUBMITTER: Menon MC

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4382250 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Intronic locus determines SHROOM3 expression and potentiates renal allograft fibrosis.

Menon Madhav C MC Chuang Peter Y PY Li Zhengzhe Z Wei Chengguo C Zhang Weijia W Luan Yi Y Yi Zhengzi Z Xiong Huabao H Woytovich Christopher C Greene Ilana I Overbey Jessica J Rosales Ivy I Bagiella Emilia E Chen Rong R Ma Meng M Li Li L Ding Wei W Djamali Arjang A Saminego Millagros M O'Connell Philip J PJ Gallon Lorenzo L Colvin Robert R Schroppel Bernd B He John Cijiang JC Murphy Barbara B

The Journal of clinical investigation 20141201 1

Fibrosis underlies the loss of renal function in patients with chronic kidney disease (CKD) and in kidney transplant recipients with chronic allograft nephropathy (CAN). Here, we studied the effect of an intronic SNP in SHROOM3, which has previously been linked to CKD, on the development of CAN in a prospective cohort of renal allograft recipients. The presence of the rs17319721 allele at the SHROOM3 locus in the donor correlated with increased SHROOM3 expression in the allograft. In vitro, we d ...[more]

PMID: 25437874

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Project description:BACKGROUND Interstitial fibrosis and tubular atrophy (IF/TA) have been recognized as crucial factors contributing to graft loss resulting from chronic renal allograft injuries. Recent studies have indicated a significant association between the progression of organ fibrosis and single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) found on certain genes. Our research sought to understand these potential associations and detect the potential impact of SNPs on ubiquitin-related genes related to allograft fibrosis in kidney transplant recipients. MATERIAL AND METHODS There were 200 patients enrolled in this study, from which samples were extracted for total DNA. Targeted next-generation sequencing was used to detect SNPs on 9 genes (FBXL21, PIAS1/2, SUMO1/2/3/4, UBE2D1, and UBE2I). Minor allele frequency (MAF) and Hardy-Weinberg equilibrium (HWE) tests were used and followed by linkage disequilibrium analysis. General linear models (GLM) were used to identify significant confounding factors. Finally, multiple inheritance models and haplotype analyses were conducted to explore associations between SNPs and the degree of the severity of renal allograft fibrosis. RESULTS In total, 144 SNPs were identified in targeted sequencing. After filtering based on results from MAF and HWE tests, 15 tagger SNPs were selected for further analyses of associations. GLMs indicated that the administration of sirolimus significantly contributed to the degree of severity of allograft fibrosis (P=0.011). After adjusting for confounding factors and applying a Bonferroni correction, multiple inheritance model analyses indicated that the recessive model of rs644731 of the PIAS2 gene was significantly correlated with the occurrence of IF/TA (P=0.01). Furthermore, single-locus based analysis of rs644731 did not indicate that it had a positive influence on IF/TA in a degree-dependent manner. Finally, linkage disequilibrium analysis revealed 3 haplotypes all lacking significant correlation with respect to the IF/TA experimental cohort. CONCLUSIONS We are the first to reveal that mutations of rs644731 in the PIAS2 gene were significantly correlated with the progression of IF/TA in kidney transplant recipients.

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Intronic locus determines SHROOM3 expression and potentiates renal allograft fibrosis.

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Intronic locus determines SHROOM3 expression and potentiates renal allograft fibrosis.

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