Nature Communications (Apr 2019)

Gut microbiome-derived phenyl sulfate contributes to albuminuria in diabetic kidney disease

  • Koichi Kikuchi,
  • Daisuke Saigusa,
  • Yoshitomi Kanemitsu,
  • Yotaro Matsumoto,
  • Paxton Thanai,
  • Naoto Suzuki,
  • Koki Mise,
  • Hiroaki Yamaguchi,
  • Tomohiro Nakamura,
  • Kei Asaji,
  • Chikahisa Mukawa,
  • Hiroki Tsukamoto,
  • Toshihiro Sato,
  • Yoshitsugu Oikawa,
  • Tomoyuki Iwasaki,
  • Yuji Oe,
  • Tomoya Tsukimi,
  • Noriko N. Fukuda,
  • Hsin-Jung HO,
  • Fumika Nanto-Hara,
  • Jiro Ogura,
  • Ritsumi Saito,
  • Shizuko Nagao,
  • Yusuke Ohsaki,
  • Satoshi Shimada,
  • Takehiro Suzuki,
  • Takafumi Toyohara,
  • Eikan Mishima,
  • Hisato Shima,
  • Yasutoshi Akiyama,
  • Yukako Akiyama,
  • Mariko Ichijo,
  • Tetsuro Matsuhashi,
  • Akihiro Matsuo,
  • Yoshiaki Ogata,
  • Ching-Chin Yang,
  • Chitose Suzuki,
  • Matthew C. Breeggemann,
  • Jurgen Heymann,
  • Miho Shimizu,
  • Susumu Ogawa,
  • Nobuyuki Takahashi,
  • Takashi Suzuki,
  • Yuji Owada,
  • Shigeo Kure,
  • Nariyasu Mano,
  • Tomoyoshi Soga,
  • Takashi Wada,
  • Jeffrey B. Kopp,
  • Shinji Fukuda,
  • Atsushi Hozawa,
  • Masayuki Yamamoto,
  • Sadayoshi Ito,
  • Jun Wada,
  • Yoshihisa Tomioka,
  • Takaaki Abe

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09735-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Diabetes is a major cause of kidney disease. Here Kikuchi et al. show that phenol sulfate, a gut microbiota-derived metabolite, is increased in diabetic kidney disease and contributes to the pathology by promoting kidney injury, suggesting phenyl sulfate could be used a marker and therapeutic target for the treatment of diabetic kidney disease.