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ABSTRACT: Background
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is caused by genetic mutations in PKD1 or PKD2. Macrophages and their associated inflammatory cytokines promote cyst progression; however, transcription factors within macrophages that control cytokine production and cystic disease are unknown.Methods
In these studies, we used conditional Pkd1 mice to test the hypothesis that macrophage-localized interferon regulatory factor-5 (IRF5), a transcription factor associated with production of cyst-promoting cytokines (TNF?, IL-6), is required for accelerated cyst progression in a unilateral nephrectomy (1K) model. Analyses of quantitative real-time PCR (qRT-PCR) and flow-cytometry data 3 weeks post nephrectomy, a time point before the onset of severe cystogenesis, indicate an accumulation of inflammatory infiltrating and resident macrophages in 1K Pkd1 mice compared with controls. qRT-PCR data from FACS cells at this time demonstrate that macrophages from 1K Pkd1 mice have increased expression of Irf5 compared with controls. To determine the importance of macrophage-localized Irf5 in cyst progression, we injected scrambled or IRF5 antisense oligonucleotide (ASO) in 1K Pkd1 mice and analyzed the effect on macrophage numbers, cytokine production, and renal cystogenesis 6 weeks post nephrectomy.Results
Analyses of qRT-PCR and IRF5 ASO treatment significantly reduced macrophage numbers, Irf5 expression in resident-but not infiltrating-macrophages, and the severity of cystic disease. In addition, IRF5 ASO treatment in 1K Pkd1 mice reduced Il6 expression in resident macrophages, which was correlated with reduced STAT3 phosphorylation and downstream p-STAT3 target gene expression.Conclusions
These data suggest that Irf5 promotes inflammatory cytokine production in resident macrophages resulting in accelerated cystogenesis.
SUBMITTER: Zimmerman KA
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7822573 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Mar
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Zimmerman Kurt A KA Huang Jifeng J He Lan L Revell Dustin Z DZ Li Zhang Z Hsu Jung-Shan JS Fitzgibbon Wayne R WR Hazard E Starr ES Hardiman Gary G Mrug Michal M Bell P Darwin PD Yoder Bradley K BK Saigusa Takamitsu T
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<h4>Background</h4>Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease is caused by genetic mutations in <i>PKD1</i> or <i>PKD2</i>. Macrophages and their associated inflammatory cytokines promote cyst progression; however, transcription factors within macrophages that control cytokine production and cystic disease are unknown.<h4>Methods</h4>In these studies, we used conditional <i>Pkd1</i> mice to test the hypothesis that macrophage-localized interferon regulatory factor-5 (IRF5), a transcription fac ...[more]