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JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN SOCIETY OF NEPHROLOGY
Volume 26, Issue 6, Pages 1389-1401Publisher
AMER SOC NEPHROLOGY
DOI: 10.1681/ASN.2014020190
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- Integrated Research Training Group (Christian Albrechts University, Kiel, Germany) [Sonder Forschungsbereich 877]
- European Research Projects on Rare Diseases Project [1923-B13]
- Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft [KF0288]
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Parietal epithelial cells have been identified as potential progenitor cells in glomerular regeneration, but the molecular mechanisms underlying this process are not fully defined. Here, we established an immortalized polyclonal human parietal epithelial cell (hPEC) line from naive human Bowman's capsule cells isolated by mechanical nnicrodissection. These hPECs expressed high levels of PEC-specific proteins and microRNA-193a (miR-193a), a suppressor of podocyte differentiation through downregulation of Wilms' tumor 1 in mice. We then investigated the function of nniR-193a in the establishment of podocyte and PEC identity and determined whether inhibition of nniR-193a influences the behavior of PECs in glomerular disease. After stable knockdown of miR-193a, hPECs adopted a podocyte-like morphology and marker expression, with decreased expression levels of PEC markers. In mice, inhibition of miR-193a by complementary locked nucleic acids resulted in an upregulation of the podocyte proteins synaptopodin and Wilms' tumor 1. Conversely, overexpression of miR-193a in vivo resulted in the upregulation of PEC markers and the loss of podocyte markers in isolated glomeruli. Inhibition of miR-193a in a mouse model of nephrotoxic nephritis resulted in reduced crescent formation and decreased proteinuria. Together, these results show the establishment of a human PEC line and suggest that nniR-193a functions as a master switch, such that glomerular epithelial cells with high levels of miR-193a adopt a PEC phenotype and cells with low levels of nniR-193a adopt a podocyte phenotype. miR-193a mediated maintenance of PECs in an undifferentiated reactive state might be a prerequisite for PEC proliferation and migration in crescent formation.
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