Chengyuan Tang, Hailong Han, Mingjuan Yan, Shiyao Zhu, Jing Liu, Zhiwen Liu, Liyu He, Jieqiong Tan, Yu Liu, Hong Liu, Lin Sun, Shaobin Duan, Youming Peng, Fuyou Liu, Xiao-Ming Yin, Zhuohua Zhang, Zheng Dong
Damaged or dysfunctional mitochondria are toxic to the cell by producing reactive oxygen species and releasing cell death factors. Therefore, timely removal of these organelles is critical to cellular homeostasis and viability. Mitophagy is the mechanism of selective degradation of mitochondria via autophagy. The significance of mitophagy in kidney diseases, including ischemic acute kidney injury (AKI), has yet to be established, and the involved pathway of mitophagy remains poorly understood. Here, we show that mitophagy is induced in renal proximal tubular cells in both in vitro and in vivo models of ischemic AKI...
February 17, 2018: Autophagy