Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, CHA Bundang Medical Center, Seongnam, Korea.
Clinical Research Institute, Kyung Hee University Hospital at Gangdong, School of Medicine, Kyung Hee University, Seoul, Korea.
Aging Cell. 2023 Jul;22(7):e13865. doi: 10.1111/acel.13865. Epub 2023 May 15.
Mitochondrial dysfunction is considered to be an important mediator of the pro-aging process in chronic kidney disease, which is continuously increasing worldwide. Although PTEN-induced kinase 1 (PINK1) regulates mitochondrial function, its role in renal aging remains unclear. We investigated the association between PINK1 and renal aging, especially through the cGAS-STING pathway, which is known to result in an inflammatory phenotype. Pink1 knockout (Pink1 ) C57BL/6 mice and senescence-induced renal tubular epithelial cells (HKC-8) treated with H O were used as the renal aging models. Extensive analyses at transcriptomic-metabolic levels have explored changes in mitochondrial function in PINK1 deficiency. To investigate whether PINK1 deficiency affects renal aging through the cGAS-STING pathway, we explored their expression levels in PINK1 knockout mice and senescence-induced HKC-8 cells. PINK1 deficiency enhances kidney fibrosis and tubular injury, and increases senescence and the senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). These phenomena were most apparent in the 24-month-old Pink1 mice and HKC-8 cells treated with PINK1 siRNA and H O . Gene expression analysis using RNA sequencing showed that PINK1 deficiency is associated with increased inflammatory responses, and transcriptomic and metabolomic analyses suggested that PINK1 deficiency is related to mitochondrial metabolic dysregulation. Activation of cGAS-STING was prominent in the 24-month-old Pink1 mice. The expression of SASPs was most noticeable in senescence-induced HKC-8 cells and was attenuated by the STING inhibitor, H151. PINK1 is associated with renal aging, and mitochondrial dysregulation by PINK1 deficiency might stimulate the cGAS-STING pathway, eventually leading to senescence-related inflammatory responses.
线粒体功能障碍被认为是慢性肾脏病(CKD)中促衰老过程的重要介质,而 CKD 在全球范围内呈不断上升趋势。虽然 PTEN 诱导的激酶 1(PINK1)调节线粒体功能,但它在肾脏衰老中的作用尚不清楚。我们研究了 PINK1 与肾脏衰老的关系,特别是通过 cGAS-STING 途径,该途径已知会导致炎症表型。Pink1 敲除(Pink1)C57BL/6 小鼠和用 H2O2 处理的衰老诱导的肾小管上皮细胞(HKC-8)被用作肾脏衰老模型。在转录组-代谢水平上进行了广泛的分析,以探讨 PINK1 缺乏对线粒体功能的变化。为了研究 PINK1 缺乏是否通过 cGAS-STING 途径影响肾脏衰老,我们在 PINK1 敲除小鼠和衰老诱导的 HKC-8 细胞中探索了它们的表达水平。PINK1 缺乏增强了肾脏纤维化和肾小管损伤,并增加了衰老和衰老相关分泌表型(SASP)。这些现象在 24 个月大的 Pink1 小鼠和用 PINK1 siRNA 和 H2O2 处理的 HKC-8 细胞中最为明显。使用 RNA 测序进行的基因表达分析表明,PINK1 缺乏与炎症反应增加有关,转录组和代谢组分析表明,PINK1 缺乏与线粒体代谢失调有关。在 24 个月大的 Pink1 小鼠中,cGAS-STING 的激活很明显。在衰老诱导的 HKC-8 细胞中,SASP 的表达最为明显,并被 STING 抑制剂 H151 减弱。PINK1 与肾脏衰老有关,PINK1 缺乏引起的线粒体失调可能会刺激 cGAS-STING 途径,最终导致与衰老相关的炎症反应。