TY - JOUR
T1 - Bone-marrow-derived stem cells repair basement membrane collagen defects and reverse genetic kidney disease
AU - Sugimoto, Hikaru
AU - Mundel, Thomas M.
AU - Sund, Malin
AU - Xie, Liang
AU - Cosgrove, Dominic
AU - Kalluri, Raghu
PY - 2006/5/9
Y1 - 2006/5/9
N2 - Type IV collagen is a predominant component of basement membranes, and glomeruli of a kidney filter ≈70-90 liters of plasma every day through a specialized glomerular basement membrane (GBM). In Alport syndrome, a progressive disease primarily affecting kidneys, mutations in GBM-associated type IV collagen genes (COL4A3, COL4A4, or COL4A5) lead to basement membrane structural defects, proteinuria, renal failure, and an absence of all three GBM collagen triple helical chains because of obligatory posttranslational assembly requirements. Here, we demonstrate that transplantation of wild-type bone marrow (BM) into irradiated COL4A3-/- mice results in a possible recruitment of BM-derived progenitor cells as epithelial cells (podocytes) and mesangial cells within the damaged glomerulus, leading to a partial restoration of expression of the type IV collagen α3 chain with concomitant emergence of α4 and α5 chain expression, improved glomerular architecture associated with a significant reduction in proteinuria, and improvement in overall kidney histology compared with untreated COL4A3-/- mice or irradiated COL4A3-/- mice with BM from adult COL4A3-/- mice. The α3(IV) collagen produced by BM-derived podocytes integrates into the GBM and associates with other α-chains to form type IV collagen triple helical networks. This study demonstrates that BM-derived stem cells can offer a viable strategy for repairing basement membrane defects and conferring therapeutic benefit for patients with Alport syndrome.
AB - Type IV collagen is a predominant component of basement membranes, and glomeruli of a kidney filter ≈70-90 liters of plasma every day through a specialized glomerular basement membrane (GBM). In Alport syndrome, a progressive disease primarily affecting kidneys, mutations in GBM-associated type IV collagen genes (COL4A3, COL4A4, or COL4A5) lead to basement membrane structural defects, proteinuria, renal failure, and an absence of all three GBM collagen triple helical chains because of obligatory posttranslational assembly requirements. Here, we demonstrate that transplantation of wild-type bone marrow (BM) into irradiated COL4A3-/- mice results in a possible recruitment of BM-derived progenitor cells as epithelial cells (podocytes) and mesangial cells within the damaged glomerulus, leading to a partial restoration of expression of the type IV collagen α3 chain with concomitant emergence of α4 and α5 chain expression, improved glomerular architecture associated with a significant reduction in proteinuria, and improvement in overall kidney histology compared with untreated COL4A3-/- mice or irradiated COL4A3-/- mice with BM from adult COL4A3-/- mice. The α3(IV) collagen produced by BM-derived podocytes integrates into the GBM and associates with other α-chains to form type IV collagen triple helical networks. This study demonstrates that BM-derived stem cells can offer a viable strategy for repairing basement membrane defects and conferring therapeutic benefit for patients with Alport syndrome.
KW - Alport syndrome
KW - Bone marrow transplantation
KW - Glomerular basement membrane
KW - Glomeruli
KW - Type IV collagen α3 chain
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U2 - 10.1073/pnas.0601436103
DO - 10.1073/pnas.0601436103
M3 - Article
C2 - 16648256
AN - SCOPUS:33646561825
VL - 103
SP - 7321
EP - 7326
JO - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
JF - Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
SN - 0027-8424
IS - 19
ER -