The Protective Role of KANK1 in Podocyte Injury

K Oda, K Katayama, L Zang, M Toda, A Tanoue… - International Journal of …, 2024 - mdpi.com
nephrotic syndromes are attributed to monogenic disorders that involve 27 genes. Mutations
in KANK family members have also been linked to nephrotic … -deficient human podocytes. …

Nephrotic-syndrome-associated mutation of KANK2 induces pathologic binding competition with physiological interactor KIF21A

Y Xu, C Guo, W Pan, C Zhao, Y Ding, X Xie… - Journal of Biological …, 2021 - ASBMB
podocyte functions. However, it remains unclear how these mutations disrupt the function of
KANK proteins and consequently lead to … linked the SF mutation-induced defects in podocyte

[HTML][HTML] Podocyte RhoGTPases: new therapeutic targets for nephrotic syndrome?

MA Saleem, GI Welsh - F1000Research, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
… phenotype as changes to the balance of the activity of the small GTPases lead to hypo-
or hyper-motility of podocytes resulting in proteinuria 7 . This was recently demonstrated in …

Mechanisms of podocyte injury in genetic kidney disease

N Mann, H Sun, AJ Majmundar - Pediatric Nephrology, 2024 - Springer
… driving proteinuria and kidney dysfunction. In this review, we … single-gene defects lead to
podocyte injury and ultimately … monogenic causes of nephrotic syndrome and furthered our …

Transcriptional mechanism of E2F1/TFAP2C/NRF1 in regulating KANK2 gene in nephrotic syndrome

Y Mao, Y Zhou, Y Chen, R Xu, YQ Wu, WW Zhu… - Experimental Cell …, 2024 - Elsevier
… The mortality rate linked with nephrotic syndrome (NS) is quite high. The renal tubular injury
influences the … KANK deficiency leads to podocyte dysfunction and nephrotic syndrome[J] …

Role of Rho GTPase interacting proteins in subcellular compartments of podocytes

K Asano-Matsuda, S Ibrahim, T Takano… - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
… in podocytes, mice developed congenital nephrotic syndrome [63… INF2, KANK, and Rhophilin-1
appear to protect podocytes … loss of ARHGEF7 in podocytes caused cell apoptosis due to …

Genetic disorders of the glomerular filtration barrier

AS Li, JF Ingham, R Lennon - … Journal of the American Society of …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
… A hallmark feature of nephrotic syndrome is the loss of podocyteKANK 1/2/4 genes
encoding kidney ankyrin repeat-… for CoQ 10 deficiency–related nephrotic syndrome and aHUS. …

Identification of new genes involved in hereditary steroid-resistant nephrotic syndrome using next generation sequencing and in vivo functional characterization in …

SDA Gonçalves - 2017 - theses.hal.science
… crucial for the function of the podocyte, a highly specialized epithelial cell … defect believed
to be a circulating permeability factor of lymphocyte origin that secondarily leads to podocyte

TBC1D8B loss-of-function mutations lead to X-linked nephrotic syndrome via defective trafficking pathways

G Dorval, V Kuzmuk, O Gribouval, GI Welsh… - The American Journal of …, 2019 - cell.com
… role of TBC1D8B, we undertook functional studies in both zebrafish and human podocytes.
… in mutated podocytes harboring the p.Phe291Ser mutation suggesting an endocytosis defect. …

Proteinuric kidney diseases: a podocyte's slit diaphragm and cytoskeleton approach

SMW Yu, P Nissaisorakarn, I Husain, B Jim - Frontiers in Medicine, 2018 - frontiersin.org
… Research on podocyte pathophysiology is crucial due to their function and their lack of … the
successful cloning from patients with Congenital Nephrotic Syndrome of the Finnish type (CNF…