TY - JOUR
T1 - Autoantibodies Targeting a Collecting Duct-Specific Water Channel in Tubulointerstitial Nephritis
AU - Landegren, Nils
AU - Pourmousa Lindberg, Mina
AU - Skov, Jakob
AU - Hallgren, Åsa
AU - Eriksson, Daniel
AU - Lisberg Toft-Bertelsen, Trine
AU - MacAulay, Nanna
AU - Hagforsen, Eva
AU - Räisänen-Sokolowski, Anne
AU - Saha, Heikki
AU - Nilsson, Thomas
AU - Nordmark, Gunnel
AU - Ohlsson, Sophie
AU - Gustafsson, Jan
AU - Husebye, Eystein S
AU - Larsson, Erik
AU - Anderson, Mark S
AU - Perheentupa, Jaakko
AU - Rorsman, Fredrik
AU - Fenton, Robert A
AU - Kämpe, Olle
N1 - Copyright © 2016 by the American Society of Nephrology.
PY - 2016/10
Y1 - 2016/10
N2 - Tubulointerstitial nephritis is a common cause of kidney failure and may have diverse etiologies. This form of nephritis is sometimes associated with autoimmune disease, but the role of autoimmune mechanisms in disease development is not well understood. Here, we present the cases of three patients with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 who developed tubulointerstitial nephritis and ESRD in association with autoantibodies against kidney collecting duct cells. One of the patients developed autoantibodies targeting the collecting duct-specific water channel aquaporin 2, whereas autoantibodies of the two other patients reacted against the HOXB7 or NFAT5 transcription factors, which regulate the aquaporin 2 promoter. Our findings suggest that tubulointerstitial nephritis developed in these patients as a result of an autoimmune insult on the kidney collecting duct cells.
AB - Tubulointerstitial nephritis is a common cause of kidney failure and may have diverse etiologies. This form of nephritis is sometimes associated with autoimmune disease, but the role of autoimmune mechanisms in disease development is not well understood. Here, we present the cases of three patients with autoimmune polyendocrine syndrome type 1 who developed tubulointerstitial nephritis and ESRD in association with autoantibodies against kidney collecting duct cells. One of the patients developed autoantibodies targeting the collecting duct-specific water channel aquaporin 2, whereas autoantibodies of the two other patients reacted against the HOXB7 or NFAT5 transcription factors, which regulate the aquaporin 2 promoter. Our findings suggest that tubulointerstitial nephritis developed in these patients as a result of an autoimmune insult on the kidney collecting duct cells.
U2 - 10.1681/asn.2015101126
DO - 10.1681/asn.2015101126
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 26984885
SN - 1046-6673
VL - 27
SP - 3220
EP - 3228
JO - Journal of the American Society of Nephrology:JASN
JF - Journal of the American Society of Nephrology:JASN
IS - 10
ER -