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A tumor necrosis factor-alpha-mediated pathway promoting autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease.
Nature medicine - 1 Aug 2008
Li Xiaogang, Magenheimer Brenda S, Xia Sheng, Johnson Teri, Wallace Darren P, Calvet James P, Li Rong
Abstract excerpt
Autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease (ADPKD) is caused by heterozygous mutations in either PKD1 or PKD2, genes that encode polycystin-1 and polycystin-2, respectively. We show here that tumor necrosis factor-alpha (TNF-alpha), an inflammatory cytokine present in the cystic fluid of humans with ADPKD, disrupts the localization of polycystin-2 to the plasma membrane and primary cilia through a scaffold...
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