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Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Zhu, Wei
• Li, Yuan-yuan
• Zeng, Han-xu
• Liu, Xue-Qi
• Sun, Yu-Ting
• Jiang, Ling
• Xia, Ling-ling
• Wu, Yong-gui

Titel

Carnosine alleviates podocyte injury in diabetic nephropathy by targeting caspase-1-mediated pyroptosis

Ist Teil von

• International immunopharmacology, 2021-12, Vol.101 (Pt B), p.108236-108236, Article 108236

Ort / Verlag

Netherlands: Elsevier B.V

Erscheinungsjahr

2021

Quelle

Alma/SFX Local Collection

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• [Display omitted] •Carnosine alleviated HG-induced inflammation and pyroptosis in MPC5 cells.•Carnosine prevented podocyte inflammation and pyroptosis in the STZ-induced type 1 diabetes mouse model.•Carnosine attenuates inflammation and pyroptosis in DN via a caspase-1-dependent pathway. Diabetic nephropathy (DN) is a main complication of diabetes and often develops into end-stage nephropathy. Histologically, DN progresses as the gradual loss of podocytes with the loss of glomerular podocytes being the earliest sign of DN. Pyroptosis is a new type of programmed cell death and has been mechanistically correlated with podocyte injury in DN. The current study aimed to evaluate the protective effects of carnosine on glomerular podocytes in DN, both in vivo and in vitro. Using high glucose-treated cultured MPC5 cells and a streptozotocin (STZ)-induced diabetic mouse model, we evaluated the effects of carnosine on alleviating podocyte injury in DN. We found that carnosine significantly reversed albuminuria and histopathological lesions and alleviated renal inflammatory and pyroptosis responses in STZ-induced diabetic mice for 12 weeks. The results also showed that carnosine strongly inhibited podocyte inflammation and podocyte pyroptosis in vitro. Cellular Thermal Shift Assay (CETSA) and molecular docking results revealed that mechnaistically caspase-1 was the target of carnosine. We then found that silencing caspase-1 eliminated the protective effect of carnosine. Interestingly, we also found that caspase-1 and gasdermin D expression were increased in renal biopsy tissue of patients with DN. Our study is the first to demonstrate the novel role of carnosine in alleviating podocyte injury by inhibiting pyroptosis via the targeting of caspase-1. Carnosine may have potential as a therapeutic agent in treating DN by targeting caspase-1.