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Comprehensive Molecular and Cellular Characterization of Acute Kidney Injury Progression to Renal Fibrosis
- Source :
- Frontiers in Immunology, Vol 12 (2021), Frontiers in Immunology
- Publication Year :
- 2021
- Publisher :
- Frontiers Media S.A., 2021.
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Abstract
- Acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease (CKD) represent different stages of renal failure; thus, CKD can be regarded as a result of AKI deterioration. Previous studies have demonstrated that immune cell infiltration, oxidative stress, and metabolic mentalism can support renal fibrosis progression in AKI cases. However, the most important triggers and cell types involved in this pathological progression remain unclear. This study was conducted to shed light into the underlying cellular and molecular features of renal fibrosis progression through the analysis of three mouse whole kidney and one human single-cell RNA-sequencing datasets publicly available. According to the different causes of AKI (ischemia reperfusion injury [IRI] or cisplatin), the mouse samples were divided into the CIU [control-IRI-unilateral ureteral obstruction (UUO)] and CCU (control-cisplatin-UUO) groups. Comparisons between groups revealed eight different modules of differentially expressed genes (DEGs). A total of 1,214 genes showed the same expression pattern in both CIU and CCU groups; however, 1,816 and 1,308 genes were expressed specifically in the CCU and CIU groups, respectively. Further assessment of the DEGs according to the Kyoto Encyclopedia of Genes and Genomes (KEGG) enrichment pathway and Gene Ontology (GO) showed that T-cell activation, fatty acid metabolic process, and arachidonic acid metabolism were involved in the fibrosis progression in CIU and CCU. Single-cell RNA-sequencing data along with the collected DEGs information also revealed that the T-cell activation mainly happened in immune cells, whereas the fatty acid metabolic process and arachidonic acid metabolism occurred in tubule cells. Taken together, these findings suggest that the fibrosis process differed between the CIU and CCU stages, in which immune and tubule cells have different functions. These identified cellular and molecular features of the different stages of fibrosis progression may pave the way for exploring novel potential therapeutic strategies in the clinic.
- Subjects :
- Fatty acid metabolic process
Immunology
cisplatin
Bioinformatics
urologic and male genital diseases
Mice
T-cell
Fibrosis
medicine
Renal fibrosis
Animals
Humans
Immunology and Allergy
KEGG
Original Research
ischemia reperfusion injury
Kidney
business.industry
Gene Expression Profiling
Acute kidney injury
Computational Biology
RC581-607
medicine.disease
renal fibrosis
Disease Models, Animal
medicine.anatomical_structure
acute kidney injury
genetic landscape
Disease Progression
Disease Susceptibility
Immunologic diseases. Allergy
business
Reperfusion injury
Biomarkers
Kidney disease
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 16643224
- Volume :
- 12
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Frontiers in Immunology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....3d1d46a9251b45f309084d5c0fcc38f4
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.3389/fimmu.2021.699192/full