Rac1 deficiency impairs postnatal development of the renal papilla.

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Division of Clinical Epigenetics, Research Center for Advanced Science and Technology, The University of Tokyo, 4-6-1 Komaba, Meguro-Ku, Tokyo, 153-8904, Japan.

Published: November 2022

Development of the renal medulla continues after birth to form mature renal papilla and obtain urine-concentrating ability. Here, we found that a small GTPase, Rac1, plays a critical role in the postnatal development of renal papilla. Mice with distal tubule-specific deletion of Rac1 reached adulthood but showed polydipsia and polyuria with an impaired ability to concentrate urine. The elongation of renal papilla that occurs in the first weeks after birth was impaired in the Rac1-deficient infants, resulting in shortening and damage of the renal papilla. Moreover, the osmoprotective signaling mediated by nuclear factor of activated T cells 5, which is a key molecule of osmotic response to osmotic stress in renal medulla, was significantly impaired in the kidneys of the Rac1-deficient infants. These results demonstrate that Rac1 plays an important role in the development of renal papilla in the postnatal period, and suggested a potential link between Rac1 and osmotic response.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9700760PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-24462-5DOI Listing

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