Nature Communications (Dec 2017)

ORAI channels are critical for receptor-mediated endocytosis of albumin

  • Bo Zeng,
  • Gui-Lan Chen,
  • Eliana Garcia-Vaz,
  • Sunil Bhandari,
  • Nikoleta Daskoulidou,
  • Lisa M. Berglund,
  • Hongni Jiang,
  • Thomas Hallett,
  • Lu-Ping Zhou,
  • Li Huang,
  • Zi-Hao Xu,
  • Viji Nair,
  • Robert G. Nelson,
  • Wenjun Ju,
  • Matthias Kretzler,
  • Stephen L. Atkin,
  • Maria F. Gomez,
  • Shang-Zhong Xu

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02094-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Patients with diabetic nephropathy suffer from impaired albumin reabsorption by proximal tubular epithelial cells. Here authors use diabetic and transgenic mouse models and in vitro models to show the cause for this lies in the down regulation and internalization of the ion channels, ORAI1-3.