A Parathyroid Hormone/Salt Inducible Kinase Signaling Axis Controls Renal Vitamin D Activation and Organismal Calcium Homeostasis
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ABSTRACT: The renal actions of parathyroid hormone (PTH) promote 1,25-vitamin D generation; however, the signaling mechanisms in renal epithelial cells downstream of the PTH receptor that control vitamin D metabolism remain unknown. Here we demonstrate that Salt Inducible Kinases (SIKs) control renal 1,25-vit D production downstream of PTH signaling via regulating Cyp27b1 expression. As PTH inhibits the cellular activity of SIKs by cAMP-dependent PKA phosphorylation in bone, we hypothesized that SIKs would also work as an essential mediator of PTH doownstream signaling in kidney, thus regulate vitamin D metabolism. Whole tissue and single cell transcriptomics in kidney demonstrates that both PTH and pharmacologic SIK inhibitors regulate a vitamin D gene module in specific proximal tubule cells. Moreover, small molecule SIK inhibitors directly increase 1,25-vit D production and renal Cyp27b1 mRNA expression in mice and in human embryonic stem cell-derived kidney organoids. Global- and kidney-specific Sik2/Sik3 mutant mice show Cyp27b1 upregulation, elevated serum levels of 1,25-vit D, and PTH-independent hypercalcemia. The SIK substrate CRTC2 shows PTH and SIK inhibitor-inducible binding to key Cyp27b1 regulatory enhancers in the kidney, which are also required for SIK inhibitors to increase Cyp27b1 in vivo. Lastly, in a podocyte injury mouse model of chronic kidney disease (CKD) characterized by low 1,25-vit D levels, SIK inhibitor treatment stimulates both renal Cyp27b1 expression and 1,25-vit D production.
ORGANISM(S): Mus musculus
PROVIDER: GSE207800 | GEO | 2023/01/01
REPOSITORIES: GEO
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