Single cell regulatory landscape of the mouse kidney highlights cellular differentiation programs and disease targets

Z Miao, MS Balzer, Z Ma, H Liu, J Wu… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… We reveal key cell type-specific transcription factors and major gene-regulatory circuits for
… critical stages and drivers of early kidney development 4 , that have been essential for the …

Single cell transcriptional and chromatin accessibility profiling redefine cellular heterogeneity in the adult human kidney

Y Muto, PC Wilson, N Ledru, H Wu, H Dimke… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
… -seq can predict the transcription factors that drive cell-type-specificity, which may improve
our understanding of kidney development and directed differentiation of kidney organoids. We …

Epigenomic and transcriptomic analyses define core cell types, genes and targetable mechanisms for kidney disease

H Liu, T Doke, D Guo, X Sheng, Z Ma, J Park, HMT Vy… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
kidney disease, yet the mechanism of kidney dysfunction is poorly understood. In the present
study, we define the genetic association with kidney … in 443 kidneys, transcriptome in 686 …

Proximal tubule translational profiling during kidney fibrosis reveals proinflammatory and long noncoding RNA expression patterns with sexual dimorphism

H Wu, CF Lai, M Chang-Panesso… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
… mammalian kidney development and adult kidney in health … kidney diseases, through the
mechanisms of chromatin modification, transcriptional regulation, post-transcriptional control, …

Targeted single-cell RNA-seq identifies minority cell types of kidney distal nephron

L Chen, CL Chou, MA Knepper - Journal of the American Society …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
… and transcriptional profiles of the cells in the CTAL-DCT-CNT region, we developed the …
nephron progenitors and ureteric bud during kidney development. Among DCT1 cells, we also …

Enhancer and super-enhancer dynamics in repair after ischemic acute kidney injury

J Wilflingseder, M Willi, HK Lee, H Olauson… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
… the transcriptional consequences of BET inhibition in kidneytranscriptional profiling of
vehicle- and JQ1-treated kidney … these transcription factors at enhancer sites in the kidney and …

Single-cell profiling of AKI in a murine model reveals novel transcriptional signatures, profibrotic phenotype, and epithelial-to-stromal crosstalk

V Rudman-Melnick, M Adam, A Potter… - Journal of the …, 2020 - journals.lww.com
… Moreover, AKI caused the formation of “mixed-identity cells” (expressing markers of different
renal cell types) that are normally seen only during early kidney development. The injured …

Mitochondrial quality control in kidney injury and repair

C Tang, J Cai, XM Yin, JM Weinberg… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
… of acute kidney injury (AKI) and chronic kidney disease, as well as in abnormal kidney repair
after AKI. Multiple quality control mechanisms, including antioxidant defence, protein quality …

Single-nuclear transcriptomics reveals diversity of proximal tubule cell states in a dynamic response to acute kidney injury

LMS Gerhardt, J Liu, K Koppitch… - Proceedings of the …, 2021 - National Acad Sciences
… This analysis delineated two distinct transcriptional trajectories in response to human AKI
(7): successful repair [1] or disease progression via a transition state [2] to chronic injury [3]. …

Neural transcription factor Pou4f1 promotes renal fibrosis via macrophage–myofibroblast transition

PMK Tang, Y Zhang, J Xiao… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
… In this study, we revealed a brain-specific transcription factor Pou4f1 as the key regulator
by which TGF-β1/Smad3 signaling executes MMT. Macrophage-specific silencing of Pou4f1 …