Journal
ENVIRONMENTAL TOXICOLOGY
Volume 37, Issue 12, Pages 2947-2956Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1002/tox.23650
Keywords
acute kidney injury; autophagy; ischemia-reperfusion; leucine-rich repeat kinase 2; lipopolysaccharide; podocytes
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- General Youth Project of Shanxi Natural Science Foundation [201901D211523]
- Project of China's Sonographer's Technology Rising Star Program [KJXX2021001]
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LRRK2 plays a protective role in acute kidney injury by enhancing podocyte autophagy and cell viability.
Leucine-rich repeat kinase 2 (LRRK2) is a known regulator of autophagy in a range of cell types. Here, we investigated the role of LRRK2-associated autophagy during acute kidney injury (AKI) and its underlying mechanism(s) of action. Male mice aged 8-weeks were treated with the LRRK2 inhibitor MLi-2 and exposed to lipopolysaccharide (LPS) through intraperitoneal injection or ischemia-reperfusion (IR) surgery. Mice were sacrificed 12 or 24 h post-LPS injection or IR operation and blood was collected for serum creatinine measurements. Kidney cortical tissues were collected for western blot analysis of podocyte-specific markers and autophagy-associated proteins. Renal histopathology was observed through hematoxylin-eosin staining. For cell-based assays, immortalized mouse podocytes were silenced for LRRK2 through siRNA transfection and exposed to LPS or cobalt chloride. Changes in cell viability were investigated using cell counting kit-8, flow cytometry and MTT assays. Expression of podocyte-specific markers and autophagy-associated proteins were analyzed by western blotting. We observed an increase in LRRK2 expression at 12 h post-LPS injection and IR surgery that was accompanied by enhanced autophagy. At 24 h post-treatment, both LRRK2 expression and autophagy declined. Kidney injury was most pronounced in mice treated with MLi-2. Podocytes silenced for LRRK2 showed a loss of cell viability, decreased levels of podocyte-specific protein expression and a suppression of autophagy. Together, these data reveal the protective effects of LRRK2 during AKI through enhanced podocyte autophagy and cell viability.
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