#3061 Collagen type IV alpha-1 (CO4A1) is necessary for glomerular regeneration through PAX2 regulation
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Abstract Background and Aims Podocyte loss in glomerular diseases is irreversible due to the terminally differentiated state of these cells. Glomerular parietal epithelial cells (PECs) express stem cell and developmental markers such as the transcription factor PAX2. Our previous work showed mice with a Pax2 mutation (Pax2-MUT) displayed impaired podocyte regeneration (Fig. 1A), but mechanisms underlying PEC-mediated glomerular regeneration are largely unknown. The aim of this present study is to characterize the molecular mechanisms of impaired podocyte regeneration in Pax2-MUT mice. Methods Glomeruli from Pax2-MUT and wildtype mice at baseline and after Adriamycin-induced podocyte injury were isolated using Dynabeads and were subjected to mass spectrometry proteomics. Results We analyzed the proteomic profile of Pax2-MUT and wildtype glomeruli at 14 and 28 days after Adriamycin-induced podocyte injury. A total of 2648 glomerular proteins were identified by mass spectrometry; among these, 16 were differentially regulated and statistically significant by ANOVA and Tukey's post hoc test (P < 0.01) at day 14. Of these 16 differentially regulated proteins, 8 are upregulated and 8 are downregulated in Pax2-MUT glomeruli compared to wildtype at day 14 after injury (Fig. 1B). To prioritize targets in our proteomics data, proteins of interest were identified using bioinformatically predicted ligand-receptor pairs and PAX2 gene targets. Our analysis revealed that among the 1400+ differentially expressed proteins in our proteomics dataset, only CO4A1 (Collagen type IV alpha-1) is a predicted PAX2 transcriptional target that is also one of the top ligands/receptors critical for glomerular repair. None of the other identified proteins met both criteria for further investigation. First, using a publicly available glomerular single-cell RNA-sequencing data set of Adriamycin-injured wildtype mice, a ranking of top 40 ligand-receptor pairs was generated. Of these, CO4A1 was the only ligand differentially expressed in Pax2-MUT compared to wildtype glomeruli after podocyte injury in our proteomics dataset (Fig. 1B and C). While glomerular CO4A1 was unchanged in wildtype, CO4A1 was reduced in Pax2-MUT mice at 14 days after injury (Fig. 1B). The Col4a1 gene is also a predicted PAX2 target for expression, determined through bioinformatics-based predictions of known transcription factor binding site motifs. In contrast, a Cd2ap knockout mouse model of podocyte injury showed increased CO4A1 expression (Fig. 1D), suggesting that reduced CO4A1 is specific to Pax2-MUT mice post-injury. Studies show that CO4A1 provides a “flexible” matrix during embryonic development and organogenesis to support the dynamic demands of tissue growth and morphogenesis, and this mechanism can be harnessed in glomerular repair. Therefore, decreased CO4A1 levels in Adriamycin-injured Pax2-MUT mice could result in a lack of this flexible matrix and impair normal reparative processes. Consistent with this, gene ontology and pathway analysis of Pax2-MUT glomeruli revealed processes indicative of dysregulated repair at day 28 after Adriamycin injury, including nuclear abnormalities, persistent cell proliferation, motility and migration associated with abnormal Rho-GTPase signalling, abnormal protein turnover, and decreased metabolism. Conclusion Our novel findings suggest that impaired glomerular regeneration in Pax2-MUT mice is due to decreased regulation of CO4A1 by PECs expressing mutant PAX2 (Fig. 1E). This is also an interesting, novel finding since to our knowledge, PAX2-CO4A1 signalling has never been implicated in the context of glomerular repair and regeneration and can therefore serve as novel therapeutic targets for glomerular diseases which are primarily caused by podocyte injury and loss.
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