Nature Communications (May 2019)

Disruption of podocyte cytoskeletal biomechanics by dasatinib leads to nephrotoxicity

  • Rhodora C. Calizo,
  • Smiti Bhattacharya,
  • J. G. Coen van Hasselt,
  • Chengguo Wei,
  • Jenny S. Wong,
  • Robert J. Wiener,
  • Xuhua Ge,
  • Nicholas J. Wong,
  • Jia-Jye Lee,
  • Christina M. Cuttitta,
  • Gomathi Jayaraman,
  • Vivienne H. Au,
  • William Janssen,
  • Tong Liu,
  • Hong Li,
  • Fadi Salem,
  • Edgar A. Jaimes,
  • Barbara Murphy,
  • Kirk N. Campbell,
  • Evren U. Azeloglu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09936-x
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Kinase inhibitors used in chemotherapy are known for their adverse effects on kidney physiology. Here, Calizo et al. show that dasatinib is associated with a higher risk of glomerular toxicity compared to other kinase inhibitors, due to deleterious effects on cytoskeletal biomechanics in podocytes.