PMID- 36275902 OWN - NLM STAT- MEDLINE DCOM- 20221025 LR - 20221025 IS - 1942-0994 (Electronic) IS - 1942-0900 (Print) IS - 1942-0994 (Linking) VI - 2022 DP - 2022 TI - Glutathione Peroxidase 4 Is a Predictor of Diabetic Kidney Disease Progression in Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus. PG - 2948248 LID - 10.1155/2022/2948248 [doi] LID - 2948248 AB - BACKGROUND: Diabetic kidney disease (DKD) represents a heavy burden in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM). Ferroptosis plays an important role in DKD, and it thus provides new perspectives to pursue more related biomarkers to assess the disease severity and prognosis. Glutathione peroxidase 4 (GPX4) is the mainstay in regulating ferroptosis. The current study investigated the predictive value of kidney GPX4 expression level in DKD progression. METHODS: We measured GPX4 levels in kidney paraffin sections of 85 biopsy-proven DKD patients by immunohistochemistry staining. The associations between the GPX4 level and clinicopathological parameters as well as renal outcomes were analyzed. RESULTS: GPX4 is mainly expressed in kidney tubulointerstitium, especially in tubular epithelial cells of DKD patients. The GPX4 expression level was significantly lower in DKD patients than healthy controls. Besides, GPX4 level significantly correlated with proteinuria (r = -0.42, p < 0.001), urinary albumin-to-creatinine ratio (uACR) (r = -0.40, p < 0.01), serum creatinine (Scr) (r = -0.59, p < 0.001), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR) (r = 0.66, p < 0.001), and the percentage of sclerosed glomeruli (r = -0.42, p < 0.001) in renal specimens. During follow-up, the GPX4 level positively correlated with eGFR slope (r = 0.48, p < 0.001), and GPX4-low patients showed a significantly higher probability of developing end-stage kidney disease (ESKD) compared with GPX4-high patients (p < 0.01). Moreover, after adjusting for other potential predictors, the GPX4 level was still an independent predictor of developing ESKD (HR 2.15, 95% CI 1.08 to 4.28, p < 0.05). CONCLUSIONS: Kidney tubulointerstitial GPX4 expression level was associated with the disease severity and progression of DKD. CI - Copyright (c) 2022 Yi-hui Wang et al. FAU - Wang, Yi-Hui AU - Wang YH AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-8511-3017 AD - Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Institute of Nephrology, Peking University, Key Laboratory of Renal Disease, Ministry of Health of China, Key Laboratory of Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention and Treatment (Peking University), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100034, China. AD - Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing, China. FAU - Chang, Dong-Yuan AU - Chang DY AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-3696-5993 AD - Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Institute of Nephrology, Peking University, Key Laboratory of Renal Disease, Ministry of Health of China, Key Laboratory of Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention and Treatment (Peking University), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100034, China. AD - Research Units of Diagnosis and Treatment of Immune-Mediated Kidney Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. FAU - Zhao, Ming-Hui AU - Zhao MH AUID- ORCID: 0000-0003-3340-3108 AD - Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Institute of Nephrology, Peking University, Key Laboratory of Renal Disease, Ministry of Health of China, Key Laboratory of Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention and Treatment (Peking University), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100034, China. AD - Peking-Tsinghua Center for Life Sciences, Beijing, China. AD - Research Units of Diagnosis and Treatment of Immune-Mediated Kidney Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. FAU - Chen, Min AU - Chen M AUID- ORCID: 0000-0002-6413-6973 AD - Renal Division, Department of Medicine, Peking University First Hospital, Institute of Nephrology, Peking University, Key Laboratory of Renal Disease, Ministry of Health of China, Key Laboratory of Chronic Kidney Disease Prevention and Treatment (Peking University), Ministry of Education, Beijing 100034, China. AD - Research Units of Diagnosis and Treatment of Immune-Mediated Kidney Diseases, Chinese Academy of Medical Sciences, Beijing, China. LA - eng PT - Journal Article DEP - 20221012 PL - United States TA - Oxid Med Cell Longev JT - Oxidative medicine and cellular longevity JID - 101479826 RN - AYI8EX34EU (Creatinine) RN - EC 1.11.1.12 (Phospholipid Hydroperoxide Glutathione Peroxidase) RN - 8002-74-2 (Paraffin) RN - 0 (Biomarkers) RN - 0 (Albumins) SB - IM MH - Humans MH - *Diabetic Nephropathies/metabolism MH - Creatinine/urine MH - *Diabetes Mellitus, Type 2/complications MH - Phospholipid Hydroperoxide Glutathione Peroxidase MH - Paraffin MH - Glomerular Filtration Rate MH - Biomarkers MH - *Kidney Failure, Chronic/complications MH - Albumins MH - Disease Progression PMC - PMC9581693 COIS- All the authors declared no competing interests. EDAT- 2022/10/25 06:00 MHDA- 2022/10/26 06:00 PMCR- 2022/10/12 CRDT- 2022/10/24 04:07 PHST- 2022/02/09 00:00 [received] PHST- 2022/08/18 00:00 [revised] PHST- 2022/09/09 00:00 [accepted] PHST- 2022/10/24 04:07 [entrez] PHST- 2022/10/25 06:00 [pubmed] PHST- 2022/10/26 06:00 [medline] PHST- 2022/10/12 00:00 [pmc-release] AID - 10.1155/2022/2948248 [doi] PST - epublish SO - Oxid Med Cell Longev. 2022 Oct 12;2022:2948248. doi: 10.1155/2022/2948248. eCollection 2022.