Project description:Sex-dependent differences in kidney function have been recognized. However, the molecular mechanisms underlying these differences remain largely unexplored. Advances in genomics and proteomic technologies now allow for an extensive characterization of sex differences. In this study, the authors apply multi-omics approaches integrating RNA-seq, ATAC-seq, and proteomics to investigate gene expression, chromatin accessibility, and protein expression between male and female mouse proximal tubules. This study identifies a large number of sex-biased genes and proteins associated with various kidney functions, including metabolism and transport processes. The authors demonstrate that sex differences may also arise from differences in interaction between transcription factors and accessible chromatin regions. A comprehensive web resource is provided to the research community to advance understanding of sex differences.
Project description:Sex differences have been increasingly recognized to play an important role in kidney physiology and pathophysiology, but limited resources are available for comprehensive interrogation of sex differences. Here, we coupled renal tubule microdissection with RNA-seq and ATAC-seq with a focus on proximal tubules that exhibited the greatest sex differences and carried out whole-kidney proteomics to build a comprehensive sex difference landscape between male and female mouse kidneys. The transcriptomic data indicate that the major sex differences are in S2 and S3 of proximal tubule segments, where signaling pathways including monocarboxylic acid metabolic process, organic anion transport, and organic acid transport display the greatest differences. We develop an ATAC-seq method on microdissected tubules to capture chromatin accessibility differences between sexes. The analysis reveals that major sex differences are in autosomes instead of sex chromosomes, and many of them are in S2/S3 segments related to the signaling pathways identified by transcriptomic analysis. Motif analysis identifies several transcription factors (Tead1, Nfia/b, and Pou3f3) whose interplay with other transcription factors (e.g. Hnf1b, Hnf4a) may contribute to sex differences. Finally, whole-kidney quantitative proteomics analysis correlates with the transcriptome analysis and identifies a large number of proteins (Cyp2e1, Acsm2/3) that are sex-dependent. We develop a knowledge portal to promote our understanding of sex differences in kidneys in kidneys at https://esbl.nhlbi.nih.gov/MRECA/PT/.
Project description:To clarify the effects of cisplatin (cis-diamminedichloroplatinum II, CDDP) on the gene expression profiles in renal proximal tubules, microarray analyses were carried out using total RNA samples isolated from microdissected proximal tubules and whole kidneys. The molecular events underlying acute kidney injury (AKI) in the proximal tubules of rats with cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity were successfully clarified with 17,000 transcripts. Renal proximal tubules were isolated under microscopy, and transcriptome data were collected with Rat Genome Survey Microarray® (Applied Biosystems)
Project description:dB/dB mice develop different kidney pathologies resulting from high body weight. We seek to better understand the mechanisms of this kidney damage in proximal tubules. We isolated RNA from proximal tubules of different groups of mice, and we seek to understand how the anti-oxidant enzyme catalase may regulate kidney damage in this model.
Project description:Pax2 and Pax8 are homologous transcription factors required for kidney development and medullary urine concentration. However, their function in proximal tubule homeostasis and response to acute kidney injury is unknown. Mice with proximal tubules consisting of a mosaic of wild-type and Pax2/8 mutant proximal tubules cells were generated. Gene expression of mutant and wild-type proximal tubule cells was compared under homeostatic conditions using single-nucleus RNA sequencing.
Project description:Dent disease has multiple defects attributed to proximal tubule malfunction including low molecular weight proteinuria, aminoaciduria, phosphaturia and glycosuria. In order to understand the changes in kidney function of the Clc5 transporter gene knockout mouse model of Dent disease, we examined gene expression profiles from proximal tubules of mouse kidneys. Overall 720 genes are expressed differentially in the proximal tubules of the Dent Clcn5 knockout mouse model compared to those of control wild type mice. The fingerprint of these gene changes may help us to understand the phenotype of Dent disease. Experiment Overall Design: Renal proximal tubules were dissected from wild type and Clcn5 knockout mice. Mice were anesthetized with halothane, the abdominal aorta of each animal was accessed and the left kidney was perfused with an ice-cold salt. Proximal tubule dissection was performed in an ice-cold salt solution. After dissection of approximately 80-100 segments of 2 mm in length per kidney, the RNA for 3-4 mice was combined to have enough RNA per chip. Experiment Overall Design: 3 microarrays each of wild type and knockout mouse proximal tubule were processed
Project description:The adult kidney has a remarkable capacity for self-renewal upon damage. Whether this regeneration is mediated by dedifferentiating surviving cells or as recently suggested by stem cells has not been unequivocally settled. The stem cell concept is however hampered by lack of consensus regarding the histological localization of and defining markers for these cells. Here, we demonstrate that aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity may be used for isolation of cells with progenitor-like characteristics from adult human renal cortical tissue. Gene expression profiling of the isolated ALDHhigh and ALDHlow cell fractions followed by immunohistochemical interrogation of renal tissues enabled us to delineate a tentative progenitor cell population with a scattered distribution in the epithelial layer of the proximal tubules (PT). The cells differed from the surrounding cells by expression of CD133, CD24, vimentin, KRT7, KRT19, and BCL2, and were negative for PT-specific markers. Based on functional and bioinformatic analyses as well as an immunophenotypical resemblance to cells of regenerating tubules we suggest that these cells are endowed with a more robust phenotype, allowing increased resistance to acute renal injury, enabling rapid repopulation of the tubules. The rare intratubular cells also displayed marked transcriptional and immunophenotypical similarities to that of cortical adenomas and papillary renal cell carcinomas, indicating that these renal neoplasms arise through oncogenic transformation of this subset of PT cells. Total RNA extracted from three pairs of ALDH-high and ALDH-low cell fractions were hybridized to Illumina humanHT-12 v3.0 Expression BeadChips (Illumina Inc) at the SCIBLU Genomics Centre at Lund University Sweden (http://www.lth.se/sciblu).
Project description:To clarify the effects of cisplatin (cis-diamminedichloroplatinum II, CDDP) on the gene expression profiles in renal proximal tubules, microarray analyses were carried out using total RNA samples isolated from microdissected proximal tubules and whole kidneys. The molecular events underlying acute kidney injury (AKI) in the proximal tubules of rats with cisplatin-induced nephrotoxicity were successfully clarified with 17,000 transcripts.
Project description:The adult kidney has a remarkable capacity for self-renewal upon damage. Whether this regeneration is mediated by dedifferentiating surviving cells or as recently suggested by stem cells has not been unequivocally settled. The stem cell concept is however hampered by lack of consensus regarding the histological localization of and defining markers for these cells. Here, we demonstrate that aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH) activity may be used for isolation of cells with progenitor-like characteristics from adult human renal cortical tissue. Gene expression profiling of the isolated ALDHhigh and ALDHlow cell fractions followed by immunohistochemical interrogation of renal tissues enabled us to delineate a tentative progenitor cell population with a scattered distribution in the epithelial layer of the proximal tubules (PT). The cells differed from the surrounding cells by expression of CD133, CD24, vimentin, KRT7, KRT19, and BCL2, and were negative for PT-specific markers. Based on functional and bioinformatic analyses as well as an immunophenotypical resemblance to cells of regenerating tubules we suggest that these cells are endowed with a more robust phenotype, allowing increased resistance to acute renal injury, enabling rapid repopulation of the tubules. The rare intratubular cells also displayed marked transcriptional and immunophenotypical similarities to that of cortical adenomas and papillary renal cell carcinomas, indicating that these renal neoplasms arise through oncogenic transformation of this subset of PT cells.
Project description:Dent disease has multiple defects attributed to proximal tubule malfunction including low molecular weight proteinuria, aminoaciduria, phosphaturia and glycosuria. In order to understand the changes in kidney function of the Clc5 transporter gene knockout mouse model of Dent disease, we examined gene expression profiles from proximal tubules of mouse kidneys. Overall 720 genes are expressed differentially in the proximal tubules of the Dent Clcn5 knockout mouse model compared to those of control wild type mice. The fingerprint of these gene changes may help us to understand the phenotype of Dent disease. Keywords: gene knockout, mouse, Clcn5, Dent's disease