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AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PATHOLOGY
Volume 183, Issue 3, Pages 774-785Publisher
ELSEVIER SCIENCE INC
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajpath.2013.05.026
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- Uehara Memorial Foundation
- Fourth Annual Research Award Grant of the Japanese Society of Anti-Aging Medicine
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [25670414] Funding Source: KAKEN
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Aging is a dominant risk factor for end-stage renal disease. We analyzed the mechanism involved in age-related exacerbation of proteinuria-induced proximal tubular cell (PTC) damage by focusing on endoplasmic reticulum-related unfolded protein response (UPR). After equal-degree induction of proteinuria in 24-month-old (aged) and 3-month-old (young) mice by intraperitoneal free fatty acid-bound albumin overload, tubulointerstitial lesions were more severe in aged than in young mice. In aged PTCs, proteinuria-induced cell-adaptive UPR resulting from induction of the molecular chaperone BiP was significantly suppressed, whereas proapoptotic UPR with CHOP overexpression was enhanced. Treatment with the exogenous molecular chaperone tauroursodeoxycholic acid (TUDCA) ameliorated proteinuria-induced tubulointerstitial lesions and PTC apoptosis in aged mice. Among the three UPR branches, alterations in the inositol-requiring 1 alpha (IRE1 alpha) pathway, but not the activating transcription factor 6 or PERK pathway, were associated with impaired BiP induction in aged kidneys. Moreover, siRNA-mediated suppression of BiP and IRE1 alpha exacerbated free fatty acid-bound albumin-induced apoptosis in cultured PTCs, whereas siRNA-mediated CHOP suppression ameliorated apoptosis. Finally, proteinuria-induced BiP induction in PTCs was diminished in kidney specimens from elderly patients. These results indicate that maladaptive UPRs are involved in proteinuria-induced tubulointerstitial lesions exacerbation in aged kidneys, and that supplementation of chaperones may be used to treat elderly patients with persistent proteinuria. These results should improve understanding of cell vulnerability in aged kidneys.
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