Genetic ablation of SLK exacerbates glomerular injury in adriamycin nephrosis in mice

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Ste20-like kinase SLK is critical for embryonic development and may play an important role in wound healing, muscle homeostasis, cell migration, and tumor growth. Mice with podocyte-specific deletion of SLK show albuminuria and damage to podocytes as they age. The present study addressed the role of SLK in glomerular injury. We induced adriamycin nephrosis in 3- to 4-mo-old control and podocyte SLK knockout (KO) mice. Compared with control, SLK deletion exacerbated albuminuria and loss of podocytes, synaptopodin, and podocalyxin. Glomeruli of adriamycintreated SLK KO mice showed diffuse increases in the matrix and sclerosis as well as collapse of the actin cytoskeleton. SLK can phosphorylate ezrin. The complex of phospho-ezrin, Na+/H+ exchanger regulatory factor 2, and podocalyxin in the apical domain of the podocyte is a key determinant of normal podocyte architecture. Deletion of SLK reduced glomerular ezrin and ezrin phosphorylation in adriamycin nephrosis. Also, deletion of SLK reduced the colocalization of ezrin and podocalyxin in the glomerulus. Cultured glomerular epithelial cells with KO of SLK showed reduced ezrin phosphorylation and podocalyxin expression as well as reduced F-actin. Thus, SLK deletion leads to podocyte injury as mice age and exacerbates injury in adriamycin nephrosis. The mechanism may at least in part involve ezrin phosphorylation as well as disruption of the cytoskeleton and podocyte apical membrane structure.

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Woychyshyn, B., Papillon, J., Guillemette, J., Navarro-Betancourt, J. R., & Cybulsky, A. V. (2020). Genetic ablation of SLK exacerbates glomerular injury in adriamycin nephrosis in mice. American Journal of Physiology - Renal Physiology, 318(6), F1377–F1390. https://doi.org/10.1152/ajprenal.00028.2020

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