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Paracrine Wnt1 Drives Interstitial Fibrosis Without Inflammation by Tubulointerstitial Cross-Talk BASIC RESEARCH www.jasn.org Paracrine Wnt1 Drives Interstitial Fibrosis without Inflammation by Tubulointerstitial Cross-Talk † Omar H. Maarouf,* Anusha Aravamudhan,* Deepika Rangarajan,* Tetsuro Kusaba,* ‡ Victor Zhang,* Jeremy Welborn,* Daniel Gauvin,* Xiuyun Hou,* Rafael Kramann,* and † Benjamin D. Humphreys* § *Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts; †Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts; ‡Division of Nephrology and Clinical Immunology and Medical Faculty, Rheinisch- Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen University, Aachen, Germany; and §Harvard Stem Cell Institute, Cambridge, Massachusetts ABSTRACT AKI with incomplete epithelial repair is a major contributor to CKD characterized by tubulointerstitial fibrosis. Injury–induced epithelial secretion of profibrotic factors is hypothesized to underlie this link, but the identity of these factors and whether epithelial injury is required remain undefined. We previously showed that activation of the canonical Wnt signaling pathway in interstitial pericytes cell autonomously drives myofibroblast acti- vation in vivo. Here, we show that inhibition of canonical Wnt signaling also substantially prevented TGFb– dependent myofibroblast activation in vitro. To investigate whether Wnt ligand derived from proximal tubule is sufficient for renal fibrogenesis, we generated a novel mouse strain with inducible proximal tubule Wnt1 secretion. Adult mice were treated with vehicle or tamoxifen and euthanized at 12 or 24 weeks postinjection. Compared with vehicle-treated controls, kidneys with tamoxifen–induced Wnt1 expression from proximal tubules displayed interstitial myofibroblast activation and proliferation and increased matrix protein produc- tion. PDGF receptor b–positive myofibroblasts isolated from these kidneys exhibited increased canonical Wnt target gene expression compared with controls. Notably, fibrotic kidneys had no evidence of inflammatory cytokine expression, leukocyte infiltration, or epithelial injury, despite the close histologic correlation of each with CKD. These results provide the first example of noninflammatory renal fibrosis. The fact that epithelial– derived Wnt ligand is sufficient to drive interstitial fibrosis provides strong support for the maladaptive repair hypothesis in the AKI to CKD transition. J Am Soc Nephrol 27: 781–790, 2016. doi: 10.1681/ASN.2014121188 CKD represents a substantial unmet medical need. Whether epithelial–derived paracrine factors are suffi- Despite decades of research, therapeutic advances are cient to induce tubulointerstitial fibrosis in the absence lacking, in part because the underlying mechanisms are of injury and inflammation remains unknown. poorly understood. An important recent model for A large body of work implicates the Wnt pathway CKD progression suggests that, rather than heal in the pathogenesis of CKD.6 The 19 mammalian completely, tubular injury may lead to incomplete Wnt ligands are expressed in spatially regulated and repair in a process that is maladaptive.1 For example, injured proximal tubule cells that fail to redifferentiate after injury may undergo cell cycle arrest, and in this Received December 6, 2014. Accepted May 12, 2015. fi state, they are proposed to promote pro brotic re- Published online ahead of print. Publication date available at sponses through the secretion of soluble factors that www.jasn.org. are hypothesized to subsequently act on myofibroblast Correspondence: Dr. Benjamin D. Humphreys, Washington 2 progenitors in the interstitium. Importantly, all exper- University School of Medicine, Renal Division Box 8126, 600 imental models supporting this theory are themselves South Euclid Avenue, St. Louis, MO 63110. Email: bhumphre@ characterized by both epithelial injury and inflamma- dom.wustl.edu – tion, states that strongly correlate with fibrosis itself.3 5 Copyright © 2016 by the American Society of Nephrology J Am Soc Nephrol 27: 781–790, 2016 ISSN : 1046-6673/2703-781 781 BASIC RESEARCH www.jasn.org dynamic patterns during development and in disease.7 Wnt reduced nuclear translocation of phospho-smad3 (Figure 1D). ligands are secreted by a lipid-modified glycoprotein that ac- Thus, inhibiting the canonical Wnt pathway inhibits TGFb– tivates either a canonical or noncanonical pathway on receptor induced myofibroblastactivationinansmad-dependent binding.6 Wnt1 ligand is a prototypic activator of canonical fashion. Wnt signaling, acting through b-catenin with Axin2 and LEF1 target gene activation.6,8–10 Wnt pathway activation occurs Wnt Pathway Potentiates Fibrinogenic Targets of during kidney fibrosis,11 and we have shown that genetic sta- TGFb bilization of b-catenin in pericytes and perivascular fibro- Because inhibition of the canonical Wnt pathway reduced blasts is sufficient to drive myofibroblast differentiation.12 A TGFb–dependent myofibroblast activation, we next investi- number of canonical Wnt ligands is known to be induced after gated whether Wnt pathway activation might potentiate kidney injury, including Wnt1, and cultured proximal tubule myofibroblast activation. We chose Wnt1 because it is a pro- cells express Wnt1.13,14 totypic activator of canonical Wnt signaling.6,8,10 Wnt1 had Here, we have investigated the role of paracrine epithelial to no effect on aSMA expression but did modestly increase basal interstitial Wnt signaling in the pathogenesis of kidney fibrosis. fibronectin expression in NRK-49F cells (Figure 2, A and B). We generated a novel mouse model characterized by inducible Longer incubation times or higher doses of Wnt1 also failed to expression of Wnt1 exclusively in proximal tubule epithelial upregulate aSMA (data not shown). We next exposed cells. We asked whether induction of proximal tubule Wnt1 NRK-49F cells to Wnt1 and TGFb for either 16 (mRNA) or (PT-Wnt1) expression in an adult mouse is sufficient to drive 48 hours (protein) and examined myofibroblast marker ex- tubulointerstitial fibrosis by paracrine signaling. We show that pression. In each case, Wnt1 stimulated additive aSMA, epithelial secretion induces canonical Wnt target gene expres- collagen I, and fibronectin expression compared with TGFb sion in platelet–derived growth factor receptor–b (PDGFRb) alone (Figure 2, A–C). –positive interstitial cells and that these cells gain expression of b-Catenin has been reported to directly interact with smad the myofibroblast marker a–smooth muscle actin (aSMA). proteins.20–24 Our results were consistent with a direct interaction Mice develop renal fibrosis with enhanced matrix accumula- of the two pathways, and therefore, we tested whether b-catenin tion. Remarkably, interstitial fibrosis occurs in the complete and smad3 directly interact in NRK-49F cells in response to absence of leukocyte recruitment, inflammation, or epithelial TGFb. We treated NRK-49F cells with vehicle or TGFb for 48 injury, providing strong evidence that epithelial Wnt ligand hours. Coimmunoprecipitation with anti–b-catenin antibody of acts in a paracrine fashion on interstitial myofibroblast pro- cellular lysates from NRK-49F cells treated with TGFb or vehicle genitors to induce renal fibrosis. revealed an interaction between endogenous b-catenin and psmad3 only after TGFb stimulation (Figure 2D). These results are consistent with a model, whereby b-catenin activation poten- RESULTS tiates TGFb-smad signaling by direct binding and nuclear trans- location of phospho-smad3. Canonical Wnt Signaling Is Necessary for TGFb– Mediated Myofibroblast Activation Wnt Pathway Induces Kidney Fibroblast Proliferation To investigate the role of the Wnt pathway in myofibroblast The Wnt pathway has been shown to promote cell proliferation transition, we first assessed the effect of inhibiting the Wnt in lung and dermal stem cells25,26 and fibroblasts.27–29 This pathway in an established in vitro model of myofibroblast ac- prompted us to investigate whether the Wnt pathway has a tivation. As expected, the rat kidney fibroblast line NRK-49F similar effect in kidney fibroblasts. We observed that treat- responded to TGFb with upregulation of aSMA and fibronectin ment with Wnt1 increased numbers of Ki67+ NRK-49F cells mRNA and protein expression (Figure 1, A and B). Because in vitro (Figure 2E). To quantify this proliferative response, we some TGFb-dependent responses require canonical Wnt signal- performed flow cytometry for Ki67. Our analysis revealed that ing,15–17 we asked whether inhibition of Wnt signaling might treatment with Wnt1 dramatically increased the number of abrogate induction of myofibroblast markers. We exposed cycling (Ki67+) NRK-49F cells (Figure 2, F and G). Thus, NRK-49F cells to XAV939, a tankyrase inhibitor that inhibits activation of the canonical Wnt pathway by Wnt1 promotes the canonical Wnt pathway and stabilizes Axin2.18 Indeed, proliferation of kidney fibroblasts in vitro. XAV939 substantially reduced expression of aSMA and fibro- nectin in response to TGFb (Figure 1, A and B). We next tested SLC34a1GCE/+;R26Wnt1-GFP/+ Mouse for Inducible whether Wnt pathway inhibition reduced TGFb-smad signaling PT-Wnt1 Expression and TGFb Activation using an smad binding element luciferase (SBE-luc) reporter.19 To test whether the profibrogenic activities of canonical Wnt The SBE-luc reporter was introduced into NRK-49F cells by pathway activationwere sufficient to drive renal fibrosis in vivo, lentiviral transduction, and TGFb alone induced SBE activity we generated a novel mouse model by crossing an inducible as expected. XAV939 reduced SBE activity, consistent with its proximal tubule
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