A New Method for Large Scale Isolation of Kidney Glomeruli from Mice

Takemoto, Minoru; Asker, Noomi; Gerhardt, Holger; Lundkvist, Andrea; Johansson, Bengt R.; Saitō, Yasushi; Betsholtz, Christer

doi:10.1016/s0002-9440(10)64239-3

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“…21 and 22) and 2,500 μg per kidney (≈10,000 glomeruli; ref. 23), a feasibly sufficient amount of HS to disassemble a single 10 mg/kg injection of siRNA nanoparticles (250 μg for a 25g mouse).…”

Section: Nanoparticle Components Remain Assembled In Vivo and Willmentioning

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Polycation-siRNA nanoparticles can disassemble at the kidney glomerular basement membrane

Zuckerman

Choi²,

Han³

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

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Despite being engineered to avoid renal clearance, many cationic polymer (polycation)-based siRNA nanoparticles that are used for systemic delivery are rapidly eliminated from the circulation. Here, we show that a component of the renal filtration barrier-the glomerular basement membrane (GBM)-can disassemble cationic cyclodextrin-containing polymer (CDP)-based siRNA nanoparticles and, thereby, facilitate their rapid elimination from circulation. Using confocal and electron microscopies, positron emission tomography, and compartment modeling, we demonstrate that siRNA nanoparticles, but not free siRNA, accumulate and disassemble in the GBM. We also confirm that the siRNA nanoparticles do not disassemble in blood plasma in vitro and in vivo. This clearance mechanism may affect any nanoparticles that assemble primarily by electrostatic interactions between cationic delivery components and anionic nucleic acids (or other therapeutic entities). pharmacokinetics | glomerulusA major challenge with the use of small interfering RNA (siRNA) in mammals is their delivery to intracellular locations in specific tissues (1). The two most investigated approaches to siRNA delivery involve the combination of siRNA with cationic lipids (lipoplexes, liposomes, micelles) or cationic polymers (polyplexes) (2). Polymer-based siRNA delivery vehicles can be tuned to be nonimmunogenic, nononcogenic, nontoxic, and targeted (3). A targeted nanoparticle formulation of siRNA (not chemically modified) with a cationic, cyclodextrin-containing polymer (CDP)-based delivery vehicle (clinical version denoted CALAA-01) was shown to accumulate in human tumors and deliver functional siRNA from a systemic, i.v. infusion (4). This first-in-human study demonstrated the clinical potential for cationic polymerbased siRNA delivery systems.Like most cationic polymer-based siRNA delivery systems (5-9), the siRNA/CDP nanoparticle is rapidly eliminated from circulation (shown in mice, monkeys, and humans) (10-12). In fact, polymer complexation often does not extend the circulation time of siRNA. The rapid clearance of these siRNA nanoparticles is puzzling because they are engineered to be above the size cutoff for single-pass clearance via renal filtration (13). In understanding the mechanism behind the rapid clearance of this type of cancer therapeutic, we can efficiently seek ways to increase their circulation time and, thus, enhance their anticancer efficacy (3).We hypothesize that the paradoxical renal clearance of polycation-nucleic acid nanoparticles results from their binding and disassembly by components of the renal filtration barrier. Three key properties of such nanoparticles (diameters between 10 and 100 nm, positive zeta potentials, and electrostatically driven selfassembly) make them susceptible to this mechanism of clearance.The renal filtration barrier, located within the glomerulus of the nephron, consists of three layers that must be traversed to enter the urinary space. These three layers are the glomerular endothelial fenestrations (≈100 n...

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Section: Nanoparticle Components Remain Assembled In Vivo and Willmentioning

confidence: 99%

Polycation-siRNA nanoparticles can disassemble at the kidney glomerular basement membrane

Zuckerman

Choi²,

Han³

et al. 2012

Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A.

323

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“…21 Briefly, animals were perfused with Hanks' buffered salt solution containing 2.5 mg/mL iron oxide and 1% bovine serum albumin. At the end of perfusion, kidneys were removed, decapsulated, minced into 1-mm 3 pieces, and digested in Hanks' buffered salt solution containing 1 mg/mL collagenase A and 100 U/mL deoxyribonuclease I. Digested tissue was then passed through a 100-mm cell strainer and collected by centrifugation.…”

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“…Mouse glomeruli were isolated as described, 21 then were homogenized in lysis buffer containing protease inhibitor cocktail. Equal amounts of protein samples were electrophoretically separated on SDS-polyacrylamide gel, transferred to polyvinylidene difluoride membranes (EMD Millipore, Billerica, MA), and probed with primary antibodies.…”

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Reduced Krüppel-Like Factor 2 Aggravates Glomerular Endothelial Cell Injury and Kidney Disease in Mice with Unilateral Nephrectomy

Zhong

Mallipattu

Estrada

et al. 2016

The American Journal of Pathology

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Loss of functional nephrons induces compensatory glomerular hyperfiltration and hypertrophy, leading to the progression of chronic kidney disease. Krüppel-like factor 2 (KLF2), a shear-stresseinducible transcription factor, confers protection against endothelial injury. Because glomerular hyperfiltration is associated with shear stress, we hypothesized that KLF2 may be an important factor in the compensatory response to unilateral nephrectomy (UNX). To test this hypothesis, endothelial cellespecific Klf2 heterozygous knockout mice (KO) and their wild-type littermate control (WT) underwent either UNX or sham-operation. WT-UNX mice developed compensatory renal hypertrophy as expected, whereas KO-UNX mice did not. KO-UNX mice exhibited higher blood pressure, reduced glomerular filtration rate, and significant increase in proteinuria and glomerulosclerosis compared to WT-UNX. Expression of endothelial nitric oxide synthase (official name Nos3), a known transcriptional target gene of KLF2, was significantly reduced and dysregulation of other endothelial genes was also observed in the glomeruli of KO-UNX when compared to WT-UNX and sham-operated mice. Furthermore, both podocyte number and expression of podocyte markers were also significantly reduced in KO-UNX glomeruli, indicating a potential cross talk between glomerular endothelial cells and podocytes. Finally, decreased renal expression of KLF2 in nephrectomy patients was associated with the progression of kidney disease. Taken together, our data demonstrate a protective role of KLF2 against glomerular endothelial cell injury and progression of chronic kidney disease in the model of compensatory renal hypertrophy.

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“…Isolation of glomeruli from mouse kidneys was performed as previously reported (29). Briefly, a 5-wk-old female CD1 mouse was anesthetized with peritoneal injection of tribromethanol (Avertin, Sigma, St. Louis, MO) and perfused through the heart with Dynabeads M-450 tosylactivated (Invitrogen, Carlsbad, CA) prepared in 50 ml of Hank's buffered salt solution (HBSS) with calcium and magnesium.…”

Section: Glomerular Isolationmentioning

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Cell-cell contact regulates gene expression in CDK4-transformed mouse podocytes

Sakairi

Abe

Jat

et al. 2010

American Journal of Physiology-Renal Physiology

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We transformed mouse podocytes by ectopic expression of cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4). Compared with podocytes transformed with a thermo-sensitive SV40 large T antigen mutant tsA58U19 (tsT podocytes), podocytes transformed with CDK4 (CDK4 podocytes) exhibited significantly higher expression of nephrin mRNA. Synaptopodin mRNA expression was significantly lower in CDK4 podocytes and in tsT podocytes under growth-permissive conditions (33°C) compared with tsT podocytes under growth-restricted conditions (37°C), which suggests a role for cell cycle arrest in synaptopodin mRNA expression. Confluent CDK4 podocytes showed significantly higher mRNA expression levels for nephrin, synaptopodin, Wilms tumor 1, podocalyxin, and P-cadherin compared with subconfluent cultures. We carried out experiments to clarify roles of various factors in the confluent podocyte cultures; our findings indicate that cell-cell contact promotes expression of five podocyte marker genes studied, that cellular quiescence increases synaptopodin and podocalyxin mRNA expression, and that soluble factors play a role in nephrin mRNA expression. Our findings suggest that CDK4 podocytes are useful tools to study podocyte biology. Furthermore, the role of cell-cell contact in podocyte gene expression may have relevance for podocyte function in vivo.cyclin-dependent kinase 4; SV40 large T antigen; nephrin; synaptopodin; Wilms tumor-1; P-cadherin PODOCYTE CULTURES, ESPECIALLY podocyte cell lines transformed by thermosensitive SV40 large T antigen (SV40 T), have been widely used to study podocyte biology (19,25). However, as we recently reported in studies on a generation of mouse and human podocyte cell lines, podocytes transformed by thermosensitive SV40 T (tsT) exhibit phenotypic differences compared with podocytes in vivo, with reduced expression of certain differentiation marker genes (13, 24).Cyclin-dependent kinase 4 (CDK4), a catalytic subunit of the cyclin D-CDK4 serine/threonine kinase complex, is a critical regulator of the cell cycle. CDK4 is the first kinase activated by mitogenic signals. The kinase activity of CDK4 is specifically involved in progression through G1, via phosphorylation of retinoblastoma (Rb) family members (4). Recently, Ramirez et al. (22) immortalized human bronchial epithelial cells by ectopic expression of CDK4 and human telomerase (hTERT). Microarray analysis showed that CDK4/hTERTimmortalized cells showed significantly different gene expression profiles compared with cells immortalized with human papiloma viral oncoproteins E6/E7 or SV40T and that CDK4-transformed cells clustered with primary bronchial epithelial cells. In addition, recent studies showed that cells immortalized with CDK4 are useful tools to study physiology and pathophysiology (8,23,30).We set out to develop an alternative approach to transforming podocytes by comparing the phenotype among primary cells, CDK4-transformed podocytes (CDK4-podocytes) and thermosensitive SV40 T mutant tsA58U19 (tsT-podocytes). We found that CDK4-podocytes and tsT-podocyt...

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A New Method for Large Scale Isolation of Kidney Glomeruli from Mice

Cited by 468 publications

References 23 publications

Polycation-siRNA nanoparticles can disassemble at the kidney glomerular basement membrane

Polycation-siRNA nanoparticles can disassemble at the kidney glomerular basement membrane

Reduced Krüppel-Like Factor 2 Aggravates Glomerular Endothelial Cell Injury and Kidney Disease in Mice with Unilateral Nephrectomy

Cell-cell contact regulates gene expression in CDK4-transformed mouse podocytes

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