Quinolinic acid potentially links kidney injury to brain toxicity

Kód výsledku v IS VaVaI

<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11140%2F25%3A10496510" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11140/25:10496510 - isvavai.cz</a>

Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=nzgUplXdql" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=nzgUplXdql</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1172/jci.insight.180229" target="_blank" >10.1172/jci.insight.180229</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Quinolinic acid potentially links kidney injury to brain toxicity

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Kidney dysfunction often leads to neurological impairment, yet the complex kidney-brain relationship remains elusive. We employed spatial and bulk metabolomics to investigate a mouse model of rapid kidney failure induced by mouse double minute 2 (Mdm2) conditional deletion in the kidney tubules to interrogate kidney and brain metabolism. Pathway enrichment analysis of a focused plasma metabolomics panel pinpointed tryptophan metabolism as the most altered pathway with kidney failure. Spatial metabolomics showed toxic tryptophan metabolites in the kidneys and brains, revealing a connection between advanced kidney disease and accelerated kynurenine degradation. In particular, the excitotoxic metabolite quinolinic acid was localized in ependymal cells in the setting of kidney failure. These findings were associated with brain inflammation and cell death. Separate mouse models of ischemia-induced acute kidney injury and adenine-induced chronic kidney disease also exhibited systemic inflammation and accumulating toxic tryptophan metabolites. Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (stage 3b-4 and stage 5) similarly demonstrated elevated plasma kynurenine metabolites, and quinolinic acid was uniquely correlated with fatigue and reduced quality of life. Overall, our study identifies the kynurenine pathway as a bridge between kidney decline, systemic inflammation, and brain toxicity, offering potential avenues for diagnosis and treatment of neurological issues in kidney disease.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Quinolinic acid potentially links kidney injury to brain toxicity

Popis výsledku anglicky

Kidney dysfunction often leads to neurological impairment, yet the complex kidney-brain relationship remains elusive. We employed spatial and bulk metabolomics to investigate a mouse model of rapid kidney failure induced by mouse double minute 2 (Mdm2) conditional deletion in the kidney tubules to interrogate kidney and brain metabolism. Pathway enrichment analysis of a focused plasma metabolomics panel pinpointed tryptophan metabolism as the most altered pathway with kidney failure. Spatial metabolomics showed toxic tryptophan metabolites in the kidneys and brains, revealing a connection between advanced kidney disease and accelerated kynurenine degradation. In particular, the excitotoxic metabolite quinolinic acid was localized in ependymal cells in the setting of kidney failure. These findings were associated with brain inflammation and cell death. Separate mouse models of ischemia-induced acute kidney injury and adenine-induced chronic kidney disease also exhibited systemic inflammation and accumulating toxic tryptophan metabolites. Patients with advanced chronic kidney disease (stage 3b-4 and stage 5) similarly demonstrated elevated plasma kynurenine metabolites, and quinolinic acid was uniquely correlated with fatigue and reduced quality of life. Overall, our study identifies the kynurenine pathway as a bridge between kidney decline, systemic inflammation, and brain toxicity, offering potential avenues for diagnosis and treatment of neurological issues in kidney disease.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

30217 - Urology and nephrology

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2025

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

JCI Insight

ISSN

2379-3708

e-ISSN

2379-3708

Svazek periodika

10

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

6

Stát vydavatele periodika

US - Spojené státy americké

Počet stran výsledku

20

Strana od-do

e18022

Kód UT WoS článku

001452449700001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-105001197504