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From the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center,* the University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; and the University of New Mexico Health Sciences Center, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Acute renal injury causes accumulation of free and esterified cholesterol (FC, CE) in proximal tubules, mediated, at least in part, by increased cholesterol synthesis. Normally, this would trigger compensatory mechanisms such as increased efflux and decreased influx to limit or reverse the cholesterol overload state. This study sought to determine the integrity of these compensatory pathways following acute renal damage. Rhabdomyolysis-induced acute renal failure was induced in mice by glycerol injection. Normal mice served as controls. After 18 hours, BUN levels and renal cortical FC/CE content were determined. Expression of ABCA-1 and SR-B1 (cholesterol efflux proteins) were assessed by Western blot. Renal cortical LDL receptor (LDL-R; a cholesterol importer) regulation was gauged by quantifying its mRNA. To obtain proximal tubule cell-specific data, the impact of oxidant (Fe) stress on cultured HK-2 cell LDL-R, SR-B1, and ABCA-1 proteins and their mRNAs (versus controls) was assessed. Glycerol evoked marked azotemia and striking FC/CE increments (44%, 384%, respectively). Paradoxically, renal cortical SR-B1 and ABCA-1 protein reductions and LDL-R mRNA increments resulted. Fe-induced injury suppressed HK-2 cell SR-B1, ABCA-1, and their mRNAs. LDL-R protein rose with the in vitro Fe challenge. Renal tubular cell injury causes dysregulation of SR-B1, ABCA-1, and LDL-R protein expression, changes which should contribute to a cholesterol overload state. Reductions in HK-2 cell SR-B1 and ABCA-1 mRNAs and increases in renal cortical LDL-R mRNA imply that this dysregulation reflects, at least in part, altered genomic/transcriptional events.
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