Proteinuria and Fusion of Podocyte Foot Processes in Rats after Infusion of Cytokine from Patients with Idiopathic Minimal Lesion Nephrotic Syndrome

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Background/Aims: We report on the isolation of a factor secreted by peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with idiopathic minimal lesion nephrotic syndrome (IMLNS) in relapse and its effect on proteinuria and podocyte morphology in the rat. Methods: Peripheral blood mononuclear cells from patients with IMLNS (in relapse and in remission) and patients with focal segmental glomerulosclerosis were cultured for 72 h. Supernatants from 20 × 10<sup>6</sup> cultured cells were separated by liquid chromatography into three fractions according to markers (bovine serum albumin, β-amylase, and apoferritin). Each supernatant fraction was infused into rats for 5 days using an osmotic pump. Proteinuria, 24-hour albumin excretion or albumin/creatinine ratio in a 24-hour urine collection, was measured daily starting 3 days prior to fraction infusion. Renal tissue was obtained for electron microscopy studies. The β-amylase fraction underwent electrophoresis using isoelectric focusing gel. Results: When protein excretion was compared prior to and during supernatant fraction infusion, a significant increase in proteinuria was observed only when β-amylase fraction from IMLNS patients in relapse was infused (p < 0.05). Protein electrophoresis of the β-amylase fraction showed a single band at pH 6.0 only in samples from IMLNS patients in relapse. The band was composed of two proteins, β-amylase and a 100-kDa glycoprotein. Fusion of foot processes was observed only when the β-amylase fraction from IMLNS patients in relapse was infused. Conclusions: The infusion of the β-amylase fraction containing a 100-kDa glycoprotein from IMLNS patients in relapse induced proteinuria and effacement of foot processes in the rat. This protein may play a role in the pathogenesis of IMLNS.

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Podocytes are unique cells with a complex cellular organization. With respect to their cytoarchitecture, podocytes may be divided into three structurally and functionally different segments: cell body, major processes, and foot processes (FPs). The FPs of neighboring podocytes regularly interdigitate, leaving between them the filtration slits that are bridged by an extracellular structure, known as the slit diaphragm (SD). Podocytes cover the outer aspect of the glomerular basement membrane (GBM). They therefore form the final barrier to protein loss, which explains why podocyte injury is typically associated with marked proteinuria. Chronic podocyte injury may lead to podocyte detachment from the GBM. Our knowledge of the molecular structure of the SD has been remarkably improved in the past few years. Several molecules, including nephrin, CD2AP, FAT, ZO-1, P-cadherin, Podocin, and Neph 1-3 have all been shown to be associated with the SD complex, and some of these molecules are critical for its integrity. Podocytes are injured in many forms of human and experimental glomerular disease. The early events are characterized either by alterations in the molecular composition of the SD without visible changes in morphology or, more obviously, by a reorganization of FP structure with the fusion of filtration slits and the apical displacement of the SD. Based on recent insights into the molecular pathology of podocyte injury, at least four major causes have been identified that lead to the uniform reaction of FP effacement and proteinuria: (1) interference with the SD complex and its lipid rafts; (2) direct interference with the actin cytoskeleton; (3) interference with the GBM or with podocyte-GBM interaction; and (4) interference with the negative surface charge of podocytes. There is also evidence, in focal segmental glomerular sclerosis (FSGS) and in idiopathic nephrotic syndrome in humans and rats, that podocyte damage may be caused by circulating albuminuric factors. Ongoing studies in many laboratories are aiming at an understanding of the dynamic relationship between SD proteins, the actin cytoskeleton, and the dynamics of FP structure in nephrotic syndrome and FSGS. These studies should provide us with a better understanding of the biological mechanism underlying the podocyte response to injury. Such studies will potentially translate into more refined treatment and the prevention of proteinuria and progressive glomerular disease.

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Journal ID (publisher-id): NEE

Journal ID (nlm-ta): Nephron Exp Nephrol

Journal ID (doi): 10.1159/issn.1660-2129

Title: Cardiorenal Medicine

Publisher: S. Karger AG

ISSN (Electronic): 1660-2129

Publication date Subscription-year: 2006

Publication date (Print): February 2006

Publication date (Electronic): 05 December 2005

Volume: 102

Issue: 3-4

Pages: e105-e112

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Departments of ^aPediatrics and ^bAnatomy, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fla., USA

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Publisher ID: 89689 Other ID: Nephron Exp Nephrol 2006;102:e105–e112

DOI: 10.1159/000089689

PubMed ID: 16330882

SO-VID: c21185fd-2a66-461f-a713-0891f5171e03

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Date received : 20 May 2005

Date accepted : 12 August 2005

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