| Puromycin aminonucleoside의 사구체 족세포 Pcadherin에 대한 영향 |
| 하태선 |
| 충북대학교 의과대학 소아과학교실 |
| Effect of Puromycin Aminonucleoside on Podocyte P-Cadherin |
| Tae-Sun Ha |
| Department of Pediatrics, College of Medicine, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju, Korea |
Corresponding Author:
Tae-Sun Ha ,Tel: 043-269-6374, Fax: 043-264-6620, Email: tsha@chungbuk.ac.kr
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Received: September 13, 2013; Accepted: October 7, 2013. |
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| ABSTRACT |
Purpose: To test whether the expression of P-cadherin, a component of slit diaphragms between podocyte foot processes, would be altered by puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN) in a cultured podocyte in vitro.
Methods: Rat glomerular epithelial cells (GEpC) were cultured with various concentrations of PAN. The distribution of P-cadherin was examined with a confocal microscope. Western blotting and reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction (RT-PCR) were used to measure the change in P-cadherin expression.
Results : This study found that P-cadherin was concentrated in the inner and peripheral cytoplasm with high concentrations of PAN under immunofluorescence views. Western blotting of GEpC revealed that PAN induced a decrease of P-cadherin in dose- and time-dependent manners. A high dose (50 μg/mL) of PAN decreased P-cadherin expression by 21.9% at 24 h (P <0.05) and 31.9% at 48 h (P <0.01) compared to those without PAN. In RT-PCR, high concentrations (50 μg/mL) of PAN also decreased P-cadherin mRNA expression, similar to protein suppression, by 23.5% at 48 h (P <0.05).
Conclusion : Podocytes exposed to PAN in vitro concentrated P-cadherin internally, and reduced P-cadherin mRNA and protein expression. This could explain the development of proteinuria in experimental PAN-induced nephropathy. |
| Key words:
P-Cadherin | Puromycin aminonucleoside (PAN)-induced nephropathy | Glomerular epithelial cells (GEpC) | Podocyte |
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