Daniela A Braun, Jillian K Warejko, Shazia Ashraf, Weizhen Tan, Ankana Daga, Ronen Schneider, Tobias Hermle, Tilman Jobst-Schwan, Eugen Widmeier, Amar J Majmundar, Makiko Nakayama, David Schapiro, Jia Rao, Johanna Magdalena Schmidt, Charlotte A Hoogstraten, Hannah Hugo, Sevcan A Bakkaloglu, Jameela A Kari, Sherif El Desoky, Ghaleb Daouk, Shrikant Mane, Richard P Lifton, Shirlee Shril, Friedhelm Hildebrandt
Background: Nephrotic syndrome (NS), a chronic kidney disease, is characterized by significant loss of protein in the urine causing hypoalbuminemia and edema. In general, ∼15% of childhood-onset cases do not respond to steroid therapy and are classified as steroid-resistant NS (SRNS). In ∼30% of cases with SRNS, a causative mutation can be detected in one of 44 monogenic SRNS genes. The gene LAMA5 encodes laminin-α5, an essential component of the glomerular basement membrane. Mice with a hypomorphic mutation in the orthologous gene Lama5 develop proteinuria and hematuria...
March 9, 2018: Nephrology, Dialysis, Transplantation