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Gaining a better understanding of kidney diseases
Date:9/4/2008

This press release is available in German.

Cystic kidney disease, renal fibrosis, or renal cell carcinoma: Many diseases of the excretory organs are characterized by overproduction or on the contrary absence of characteristic proteins in the renal cells. An international research team under the leadership of scientists from DKFZ and Heidelberg University Hospitals has now developed an animal model to better investigate these conditions.

The researchers introduced a genetic switch into the genome of mice. This switch allows to selectively turn on and off the production of disease-typical proteins in renal tissue. It is activated simply by adding the antibiotic tetracycline to the animal food.

To find out whether it is possible to study the development of kidney diseases in the genetically modified (transgenic) animals, the investigators stimulated the production of c-Myc in the renal tissue of the mice. Numerous tumors have been reported to be associated with elevated levels of this transcription factor. Shortly after activation of the c-Myc gene the animals started developing cysts that led to organ failure. Pathologists also discovered renal cell carcinomas in some of the mice. As a reaction to the overexpression of another signaling molecule, the mice developed renal fibrosis.

Earlier attempts to study disease development using transgenic animals have often failed because the proteins to be studied are overproduced in the murine embryos already. As a result, the animals often develop severe malformations that make meaningful conclusions impossible. "A particular advantage of our model is that we can switch on and off disease-typical renal proteins at any given time," explained Associate Professor (PD) Dr. Robert Ksters of the Institute of Human Genetics of the University of Heidelberg and Professor Dr. Hermann-Josef Grne of the G
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Contact: Dr. Sibylle Kohlstdt
s.kohlstaedt@dkfz.de
Helmholtz Association of German Research Centres
Source:Eurekalert

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