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Arsenic Exposure-Induced Acute Kidney Injury by Regulating SIRT1/PINK1/Mitophagy Axis in Mice and in HK-2 Cells

  • J Agric Food Chem. 2023 Oct 16. doi: 10.1021/acs.jafc.3c05341.
Shuiping Liu 1 2 3 4 Yunhuan Liu 2 3 4 Jinyan Li 2 3 4 Mengmeng Wang 2 3 4 Xingxiang Chen 2 3 4 Fang Gan 2 3 4 Lixin Wen 1 Kehe Huang 2 3 4 Dandan Liu 2 3 4
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Affiliations

  • 1 College of Veterinary Medicine, Hunan Agricultural University, Changsha, Hunan Province 410128, China.
  • 2 College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210095, China.
  • 3 Institute of Animal Nutritional Health, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210095, China.
  • 4 MOE Joint International Research Laboratory of Animal Health and Food Safety, College of Veterinary Medicine, Nanjing Agricultural University, Nanjing, Jiangsu Province 210095, China.
Abstract

Groundwater resources are often contaminated by arsenic, which poses a serious threat to human and animal's health. Some studies have demonstrated that acute arsenic exposure could induce kidney injury because the kidney is a key target organ for toxicity, but the exact mechanism remains unclear. Hence, we investigated the effect of SIRT1-/PINK1-mediated Mitophagy on NaAsO2-induced kidney injury in vivo and in vitro. In our study, NaAsO2 exposure obviously induced renal tubule injury and mitochondrial dysfunction. Meanwhile, NaAsO2 exposure could inhibit the mRNA/protein level of SIRT1 and activate the mitophagy-related mRNA/protein levels in the kidney of mice. In HK-2 cells, we also confirmed that NaAsO2-induced nephrotoxicity depended on the activation of Mitophagy. Moreover, the activation of SIRT1 by resveratrol alleviated NaAsO2-induced acute kidney injury via the activation of Mitophagy in vivo and in vitro. Interestingly, the inhibition of Mitophagy by cyclosporin A (CsA) further exacerbated NaAsO2-induced nephrotoxicity and inflammation in HK-2 cells. Taken together, our study found that SIRT1-regulated PINK1-/Parkin-dependent Mitophagy was implicated in NaAsO2-induced acute kidney injury. In addition, we confirmed that PINK1-/Parkin-dependent Mitophagy played a protective role against NaAsO2-induced acute kidney injury. Therefore, activation of SIRT1 and Mitophagy may represent a novel therapeutic target for the prevention and treatment of NaAsO2-induced acute renal injury.

Keywords

PINK1; SIRT1; acute kidney injury; arsenic; mitophagy.

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