🤔 Epo production in kidneys
The transcriptional and regulatory identity of erythropoietin producing cells (Kragesteen, Nature Medicine 2023)
The transcriptional and regulatory identity of erythropoietin producing cells (Kragesteen, Nature Medicine 2023)
Glucose absorption drives cystogenesis in a human organoid-on-chip model of polycystic kidney disease (Li, Nature Communications 2023)
The kidney cell architecture atlas infographic by Dr Jithu Kurian
Some cases of ADTKD are due to mutations of the MUC-1 gene, one mutation is a frame shift mutation that results in a premature stop codon. which results in accumulation of the abnormally short, and toxic protein MUC-1 fs . The researchers found a small protein, BRD4780, that reroute MUC-1fs to lysosomes, preventing proteinopathy and possibly altering the natural history of the disease.