Nature Communications (Apr 2020)

A kinome-wide screen identifies a CDKL5-SOX9 regulatory axis in epithelial cell death and kidney injury

  • Ji Young Kim,
  • Yuntao Bai,
  • Laura A. Jayne,
  • Ralph D. Hector,
  • Avinash K. Persaud,
  • Su Sien Ong,
  • Shreshtha Rojesh,
  • Radhika Raj,
  • Mei Ji He Ho Feng,
  • Sangwoon Chung,
  • Rachel E. Cianciolo,
  • John W. Christman,
  • Moray J. Campbell,
  • David S. Gardner,
  • Sharyn D. Baker,
  • Alex Sparreboom,
  • Rajgopal Govindarajan,
  • Harpreet Singh,
  • Taosheng Chen,
  • Ming Poi,
  • Katalin Susztak,
  • Stuart R. Cobb,
  • Navjot Singh Pabla

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-15638-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 15

Abstract

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Protein kinases have emerged as critical regulators of disease pathogenesis. Here, the authors have utilized kinome-wide screening approaches to reveal a pathogenic role of CDKL5 kinase in acute kidney injury, which is dependent on suppression of a SOX9-associated transcriptional network.