Salvianolic acid B attenuates tubulointerstitial fibrosis by inhibiting EZH2 to regulate the PTEN/Akt pathway

CONTEXT: Salvianolic acid B (SAB) can alleviate renal fibrosis and improve the renal function.

OBJECTIVE: To investigate the effect of SAB on renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis and explore its underlying mechanisms.

MATERIALS AND METHODS: Male C57 mice were subjected to unilateral ureteric obstruction (UUO) and aristolochic acid nephropathy (AAN) for renal fibrosis indication. Vehicle or SAB (10 mg/kg/d, i.p.) were given consecutively for 2 weeks in UUO mice while 4 weeks in AAN mice. The serum creatinine (Scr) and blood urine nitrogen (BUN) were measured. Masson's trichrome staining and the fibrotic markers (FN and α-SMA) were used to evaluate renal fibrosis. NRK-49F cells exposed to 2.5 ng/mL TGF-β were treated with SAB in the presence or absence of 20 μM 3-DZNep, an inhibitor of EZH2. The protein expression of EZH2, H3k27me3 and PTEN/Akt signaling pathway in renal tissue and NRK-49F cells were measured by Western blots.

RESULTS: SAB significantly improved the levels of Scr by 24.3% and BUN by 35.7% in AAN mice. SAB reduced renal interstitial collagen deposition by 34.7% in UUO mice and 72.8% in AAN mice. Both in vivo and in vitro studies demonstrated that SAB suppressed the expression of FN and α-SMA, increased PTEN and decreased the phosphorylation of Akt, which were correlated with the down-regulation of EZH2 and H3k27me3. The inhibition of EZH2 attenuated the anti-fibrotic effects of SAB in NRK-49Fs.

CONCLUSION: SAB might have therapeutic potential on renal fibrosis of CKD through inhibiting EZH2, which encourages further clinical trials.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2023

Erschienen:

2023

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:61

Enthalten in:

Pharmaceutical biology - 61(2023), 1 vom: 30. Dez., Seite 23-29

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Lin, Pinglan [VerfasserIn]
Qiu, Furong [VerfasserIn]
Wu, Ming [VerfasserIn]
Xu, Lin [VerfasserIn]
Huang, Di [VerfasserIn]
Wang, Chen [VerfasserIn]
Yang, Xuejun [VerfasserIn]
Ye, Chaoyang [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

Aristolochic acid nephropathy
Benzofurans
C1GQ844199
Chronic kidney diseases
Depsides
EC 2.1.1.43
EC 2.7.11.1
EC 3.1.3.67
Enhancer of Zeste Homolog 2 Protein
Ezh2 protein, mouse
Histones
Journal Article
PTEN Phosphohydrolase
Proto-Oncogene Proteins c-akt
Pten protein, mouse
Renal fibrosis
Salvianolic acid B
Transforming Growth Factor beta1
Transforming growth factor-β
Ureteral unilateral obstruction

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Date Completed 27.12.2022

Date Revised 27.12.2022

published: Print

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1080/13880209.2022.2148169

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM350366470