期刊
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF PHYSIOLOGY-RENAL PHYSIOLOGY
卷 318, 期 1, 页码 F96-F106出版社
AMER PHYSIOLOGICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1152/ajprenal.00351.2019
关键词
acute kidney injury; cisplatin; GSDMD-N; inflammation; pyroptosis
资金
- National Key Research and Development Program [2016YFC0906103]
- National Natural Science Foundation of China [81670647, 81873599, 81600352, 81770740, 81600557, 81530023, 81570643, 81570616]
- Medical Key Talents of Jiangsu Province Science and Education Qiang Wei Project [ZDRCA2016074]
- Nanjing City Key Medical Research Projects [ZKX16057, ZKX16059]
Cisplatin is one of the most effective antitumor agents, but its clinical use is highly limited by its severe side effects, especially nephrotoxicity. Recently. the active form of gasdermin D (GSDMD), termed GSDMD-N, was identified to mediate pyroptotic inflammatory cell death in several diseases. However, the role of the GSDMD-N fragment in cisplatin-induced acute kidney injury (AKI) remains unclear. In the present study, we found that pyroptosis was induced by cisplatin in both mouse kidney tissues and renal tubular epithelial cells, accompanied by increased expression of the GSDMD-N fragment. In GSDMD knockout mice with cisplatin-induced AKI, we found that cisplatin-induced loss of renal function, renal tubular injury, and inflammation was significantly attenuated compared with wild-type mice. Furthermore, the GSDMD-N fragment was overexpressed by an established rapid plasmid tail vein injection approach to evaluate the role of this cleaved form of GSDMD in AKI. As expected, mice with GSDMD-N fragment overexpression in the kidney were more susceptible to cisplatin-induced AKI than control mice, as evidenced by further elevated serum levels of blood urea nitrogen and creatinine, aggravated renal pathology, increased expression of neutrophil gelatinase-associated lipocalin and kidney injury molecule-1, and enhanced renal inflammatory cytokine secretion, which indicates a pathogenic role of GSDMD-N in cisplatin-induced AKI by triggering cell pyroptosis. Similar results were also observed in renal tubular epithelial cells overexpressing the GSDMD-N fragment. Thus these findings suggested that the activation of GSDMD contributes to cisplatin-induced AKI, possibly through triggering pyroptosis.
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