[HTML][HTML] The chromatin landscape of healthy and injured cell types in the human kidney

DL Gisch, M Brennan, BB Lake, J Basta… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
There is a need to define regions of gene activation or repression that control human kidney
cells in states of health, injury, and repair to understand the molecular pathogenesis of …

[HTML][HTML] 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
Determining the epigenetic program that generates unique cell types in the kidney is critical
for understanding cell-type heterogeneity during tissue homeostasis and injury response …

[HTML][HTML] Chromatin accessibility dynamics dictate renal tubular epithelial cell response to injury

X Cao, J Wang, T Zhang, Z Liu, L Liu, Y Chen… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Renal tubular epithelial cells (TECs) can initiate an adaptive response to completely recover
from mild acute kidney injury (AKI), whereas severe injury often leads to persistence of …

[HTML][HTML] 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
The integration of single cell transcriptome and chromatin accessibility datasets enables a
deeper understanding of cell heterogeneity. We performed single nucleus ATAC (snATAC …

Epigenetics in kidney diseases

H Ding, L Zhang, Q Yang, X Zhang, X Li - Advances in clinical chemistry, 2021 - Elsevier
Epigenetics examines heritable changes in DNA and its associated proteins except
mutations in gene sequence. Epigenetic regulation plays fundamental roles in kidney cell …

Lineage tracing and single-nucleus multiomics reveal novel features of adaptive and maladaptive repair after acute kidney injury

LMS Gerhardt, K Koppitch, J van Gestel… - Journal of the …, 2023 - journals.lww.com
Background AKI triggers a proliferative response as part of an intrinsic cellular repair
program, which can lead to adaptive renal repair, restoring kidney structure and function, or …

[HTML][HTML] Unraveling the epigenetic code: human kidney DNA methylation and chromatin dynamics in renal disease development

Y Yan, H Liu, A Abedini, X Sheng, M Palmer… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Epigenetic changes may fill a critical gap in our understanding of kidney disease
development, as they not only reflect metabolic changes but are also preserved and …

Targeting epigenetic DNA and histone modifications to treat kidney disease

M Fontecha-Barriuso, D Martin-Sanchez… - Nephrology dialysis …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Epigenetics refers to heritable changes in gene expression patterns not caused by an
altered nucleotide sequence, and includes non-coding RNAs and covalent modifications of …

[HTML][HTML] An atlas of healthy and injured cell states and niches in the human kidney

BB Lake, R Menon, S Winfree, Q Hu, R Melo Ferreira… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Understanding kidney disease relies on defining the complexity of cell types and states, their
associated molecular profiles and interactions within tissue neighbourhoods. Here we …

[PDF][PDF] Single-cell profiling reveals sex, lineage, and regional diversity in the mouse kidney

A Ransick, NO Lindström, J Liu, Q Zhu, JJ Guo… - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
Chronic kidney disease affects 10% of the population with notable differences in ethnic and
sex-related susceptibility to kidney injury and disease. Kidney dysfunction leads to …