波多辛
足细胞
尼福林
生物
内科学
细胞生物学
癌症研究
内分泌学
医学
肾
蛋白尿
作者
Chunping Yu,Hong Zhang,Shuangxin Liu,Ruizhao Li,Xingchen Zhao,Yuanhan Chen,Zhuo Li,Jianchao Ma,Wenjian Wang,Zhiming Ye,Xinling Liang,Li Zhang,Wei Shi
摘要
Podocyte injury is a common hallmark of chronic kidney disease (CKD). The podocin-nephrin complex localized in lipid rafts of podocyte is vital to reduce podocyte injury and proteinuria, however, the mechanism underlying its localization remains unclear. This study uncovers an important role of Flot2 in stabilizing the podocin-nephrin complex localized in lipid rafts. We first confirmed that Flot2 was expressed in podocyte and demenstrated that podocyte-specific Flot2 deletion worsen albuminuria, podocyte injury and glomerular pathology in LPS/ADR-induced nephropathy mouse models. Meanwhile, podocyte injury, albuminuria and pathologic aberrance were prevented in podocyte-specific Flot2 overexpression transgenic mice when challenged with LPS or ADR. Further found that Flot2 was vital to recruit podocin and nephrin into rafts and ameliorated podocyte injury. Flot2 and podocin directly interacted with each other via their SPFH domain. Meanwhile, we also showed that Flot-2 is a direct target of Krüppel-like factor (KLF15). Importanly, we observed that Flot2 was downregulated in renal biopsies from patients with podocytopathies and its expression negatively correlated with proteinuria and positively correlated with eGFR, indicating that Flot2 may be a novel therapeutic target for proteinuric kidney disease.
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