Nature Communications (Aug 2022)

Reversal of the renal hyperglycemic memory in diabetic kidney disease by targeting sustained tubular p21 expression

  • Moh’d Mohanad Al-Dabet,
  • Khurrum Shahzad,
  • Ahmed Elwakiel,
  • Alba Sulaj,
  • Stefan Kopf,
  • Fabian Bock,
  • Ihsan Gadi,
  • Silke Zimmermann,
  • Rajiv Rana,
  • Shruthi Krishnan,
  • Dheerendra Gupta,
  • Jayakumar Manoharan,
  • Sameen Fatima,
  • Sumra Nazir,
  • Constantin Schwab,
  • Ronny Baber,
  • Markus Scholz,
  • Robert Geffers,
  • Peter Rene Mertens,
  • Peter P. Nawroth,
  • John H. Griffin,
  • Maria Keller,
  • Chris Dockendorff,
  • Shrey Kohli,
  • Berend Isermann

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32477-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Persistent diabetic complications despite controlled blood glucose levels, known as hyperglycemic memory, remain a poorly understood phenomenon in diabetic kidney disease. Here the authors identify senescence-associated gene p21 as a regulator of hyperglycemic memory, the suppression of which improves hyperglycemic memory and renal function.