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Agonists of prostaglandin E2 receptors as potential first in class treatment for nephronophthisis and related ciliopathies

Authors
Garcia, H., Serafin, A.S., Silbermann, F., Porée, E., Viau, A., Mahaut, C., Billot, K., Birgy, É., Garfa-Traore, M., Roy, S., Ceccarelli, S., Mehraz, M., Rodriguez, P.C., Deleglise, B., Furio, L., Jabot-Hanin, F., Cagnard, N., Del Nery, E., Fila, M., Sin-Monnot, S., Antignac, C., Lyonnet, S., Krug, P., Salomon, R., Annereau, J.P., Benmerah, A., Delous, M., Briseño-Roa, L., Saunier, S.
ID
ZDB-PUB-220429-16
Date
2022
Source
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America   119: e2115960119 (Journal)
Registered Authors
Delous, Marion, Garcia, Hugo, Lyonnet, Stanislas, Saunier, Sophie
Keywords
drug-screen, kidney, nephronophthisis, primary cilia, prostaglandins
MeSH Terms
  • Animals
  • Cilia/metabolism
  • Ciliopathies*/drug therapy
  • Ciliopathies*/genetics
  • Ciliopathies*/metabolism
  • Female
  • Humans
  • Kidney Diseases, Cystic/congenital
  • Male
  • Mice
  • Polycystic Kidney Diseases*/metabolism
  • Prostaglandins/metabolism
  • Receptors, Prostaglandin E/metabolism
  • Zebrafish
PubMed
35482924 Full text @ Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. USA
Abstract
SignificanceJuvenile nephronophthisis (NPH) is a renal ciliopathy due to a dysfunction of primary cilia for which no curative treatment is available. This paper describes the identification of agonists of prostaglandin E2 receptors as a potential therapeutic approach for the most common NPHP1-associated ciliopathies. We demonstrated that prostaglandin E1 rescues defective ciliogenesis and ciliary composition in NPHP1 patient urine-derived renal tubular cells and improves ciliary and kidney phenotypes in our NPH zebrafish and Nphp1-/- mouse models. In addition, Taprenepag alleviates the severe retinopathy observed in Nphp1-/- mice. Finally, transcriptomic analyses pointed out several pathways downstream the prostaglandin receptors as cell cycle progression, extracellular matrix, or actin cytoskeleton organization. Altogether, our findings provide an alternative for treatment of NPH.
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