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Increased exposure of the tubular epithelium to filtered protein is a proposed mechanism of progressive renal failure associated with glomerular disease, but how this protein overload translates into tubular damage remains unclear. We have examined a model of adriamycin-induced proteinuria to determine the effect of locally synthesized C3, the central proinflammatory protein of the complement cascade. C3-/- kidney isografts placed in wild-type C3+/+ mice were protected from proteinuria-associated complement activation, tubular damage, and progressive renal failure despite the presence of abundant circulating C3. The quantity of urinary protein was unaffected by the absence of C3, and thus the influence of C3 was not explained by alteration in the filtered protein load. These results suggest that local synthesis of complement from renal epithelial cells is a critical mediator of tubular damage in proteinuria-associated renal disease. Our results concur with previous findings of increased synthesis of C3 in human tubular epithelium exposed to high concentrations of protein in vitro. Because progressive renal damage in humans associates with proteinuria regardless of cause, our findings have implications for the pathogenesis and treatment of renal failure from many common causes, immunological and nonimmunological. © FASEB.
Author(s): Sheerin NS, Risley P, Abe K, Tang Z, Wong W, Lin T, Sacks SH
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: FASEB Journal
Year: 2008
Volume: 22
Issue: 4
Pages: 1065-1072
ISSN (print): 0892-6638
ISSN (electronic): 1530-6860
Publisher: Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1096/fj.07-8719com
DOI: 10.1096/fj.07-8719com
PubMed id: 18039928
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