Nature Communications (Jan 2016)

Cytotoxicity of crystals involves RIPK3-MLKL-mediated necroptosis

  • Shrikant R. Mulay,
  • Jyaysi Desai,
  • Santhosh V. Kumar,
  • Jonathan N. Eberhard,
  • Dana Thomasova,
  • Simone Romoli,
  • Melissa Grigorescu,
  • Onkar P. Kulkarni,
  • Bastian Popper,
  • Volker Vielhauer,
  • Gabriele Zuchtriegel,
  • Christoph Reichel,
  • Jan Hinrich Bräsen,
  • Paola Romagnani,
  • Rostyslav Bilyy,
  • Luis E. Munoz,
  • Martin Herrmann,
  • Helen Liapis,
  • Stefan Krautwald,
  • Andreas Linkermann,
  • Hans-Joachim Anders

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10274
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Kidney stone disease is caused by accumulation of oxalate crystals, which trigger tissue injury, inflammation and cell death. Mulay et al. show that crystals induce cell death in the kidney through necroptosis, and propose that this pathway may be a target for the treatment of crystal-induced disease.