Impact of Ciprofloxacin With Autophagy on Acute Kidney Injury

Abstract Renal tubular injury caused by oxidative stress and inflammation results in acute kidney injury. Recent research reported that antibiotics may restore deteriorated renal tubules, but the underlying mechanism remains unclear. Therefore, we investigated the efficacy and mechanism of action of antibiotics against renal tubular injury. We screened ciprofloxacin, ceftizoxime, minocycline, and netilmicin and selected ciprofloxacin to examine further because of its low toxicity towards renal tubular cells. We evaluated the effect of ciprofloxacin on cell survival by analyzing apoptosis and autophagy. TUNEL assay results showed that the ciprofloxacin group had less apoptotic cells than the control group. The ratio of cleaved caspase 3 to caspase 3, the final effector in the apoptosis process, was decreased, but the ratio of Bax to Bcl-2 located upstream of caspase 3 was not decreased in the ciprofloxacin group. Therefore, apoptosis inhibition does not occur via Bax/Bcl-2. Conversely, the levels of phosphorylated Bcl-2, and Beclin-1, an autophagy marker, were increased, and that of caspase-3 was decreased in the ciprofloxacin group. This indicates that ciprofloxacin enhanced autophagy, increasing the amount of free Beclin-1 via phosphorylated Bcl-2, and inhibited caspase activity. Therefore, ciprofloxacin might increase renal cell viability through the autophagy activation in acute kidney injury..

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Preprint

Erscheinungsjahr:

2021

Erschienen:

2021

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ResearchSquare.com - (2021) vom: 17. März Zur Gesamtaufnahme - year:2021

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Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Park, Woo Yeong [VerfasserIn]
Lim, Sun-Ha [VerfasserIn]
Kim, Yaerim [VerfasserIn]
Paek, Jin Hyuk [VerfasserIn]
Jin, Kyubok [VerfasserIn]
Han, Seungyeup [VerfasserIn]
Ahn, Ki Sung [VerfasserIn]
Lee, Jongwon [VerfasserIn]

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10.21203/rs.3.rs-210236/v1

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XRA034252002