TY  - JOUR
A1  - Kölling, Malte
A1  - Genschel, Celina
A1  - Kaucsar, Tamas
A1  - Hübner, Anika
A1  - Rong, Song
A1  - Schmitt, Roland
A1  - Sörensen-Zender, Inga
A1  - Haddad, George
A1  - Kistler, Andreas
A1  - Seeger, Harald
A1  - Kielstein, Jan T.
A1  - Fliser, Danilo
A1  - Haller, Hermann
A1  - Wüthrich, Rudolf
A1  - Zörnig, Martin
A1  - Thum, Thomas
A1  - Lorenzen, Johan
T1  - Hypoxia-induced long non-coding RNA Malat1 is dispensable for renal ischemia/reperfusion-injury
T2  - Scientific reports
N2  - Renal ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury is a major cause of acute kidney injury (AKI). Non-coding RNAs are crucially involved in its pathophysiology. We identified hypoxia-induced long non-coding RNA Malat1 (Metastasis Associated Lung Adenocarcinoma Transcript 1) to be upregulated in renal I/R injury. We here elucidated the functional role of Malat1 in vitro and its potential contribution to kidney injury in vivo. Malat1 was upregulated in kidney biopsies and plasma of patients with AKI, in murine hypoxic kidney tissue as well as in cultured and ex vivo sorted hypoxic endothelial cells and tubular epithelial cells. Malat1 was transcriptionally activated by hypoxia-inducible factor 1-α. In vitro, Malat1 inhibition reduced proliferation and the number of endothelial cells in the S-phase of the cell cycle. In vivo, Malat1 knockout and wildtype mice showed similar degrees of outer medullary tubular epithelial injury, proliferation, capillary rarefaction, inflammation and fibrosis, survival and kidney function. Small-RNA sequencing and whole genome expression analysis revealed only minor changes between ischemic Malat1 knockout and wildtype mice. Contrary to previous studies, which suggested a prominent role of Malat1 in the induction of disease, we did not confirm an in vivo role of Malat1 concerning renal I/R-injury.
KW  - Kidney
Y1  - 2018
UR  - http://publikationen.ub.uni-frankfurt.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/45831
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-458312
SN  - 2045-2322
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VL  - 8
IS  - 1, Art. 3438
SP  - 1
EP  - 14
PB  - Macmillan Publishers Limited, part of Springer Nature
CY  - [London]
ER  -