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Collectin-11 detects stress-induced L-fucose pattern to trigger renal epithelial injury
Conrad A. Farrar, … , Wuding Zhou, Steven H. Sacks
Conrad A. Farrar, … , Wuding Zhou, Steven H. Sacks
Published April 18, 2016
Citation Information: J Clin Invest. 2016;126(5):1911-1925. https://doi.org/10.1172/JCI83000.
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Research Article Nephrology

Collectin-11 detects stress-induced L-fucose pattern to trigger renal epithelial injury

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Abstract

Physiochemical stress induces tissue injury as a result of the detection of abnormal molecular patterns by sensory molecules of the innate immune system. Here, we have described how the recently discovered C-type lectin collectin-11 (CL-11, also known as CL-K1 and encoded by COLEC11) recognizes an abnormal pattern of L-fucose on postischemic renal tubule cells and activates a destructive inflammatory response. We found that intrarenal expression of CL-11 rapidly increases in the postischemic period and colocalizes with complement deposited along the basolateral surface of the proximal renal tubule in association with L-fucose, the potential binding ligand for CL-11. Mice with either generalized or kidney-specific deficiency of CL-11 were strongly protected against loss of renal function and tubule injury due to reduced complement deposition. Ex vivo renal tubule cells showed a marked capacity for CL-11 binding that was induced by cell stress under hypoxic or hypothermic conditions and prevented by specific removal of L-fucose. Further analysis revealed that cell-bound CL-11 required the lectin complement pathway–associated protease MASP-2 to trigger complement deposition. Given these results, we conclude that lectin complement pathway activation triggered by ligand–CL-11 interaction in postischemic tissue is a potent source of acute kidney injury and is amenable to sugar-specific blockade.

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Conrad A. Farrar, David Tran, Ke Li, Weiju Wu, Qi Peng, Wilhelm Schwaeble, Wuding Zhou, Steven H. Sacks

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Requirement of complement subcomponents for complement activation on tubule cells.

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(A) Representative immunofluorescence images of C3d deposits on hypothermia-stressed Colec11–/– RTECs following incubation with 10% fresh mouse serum from normal (NMS), Colec11–/–, Masp2–/–, or C4–/– mice, demonstrating C3d deposition following incubation with NMS and reduced deposition with Colec11–/– or Masp2–/– serum; in contrast, C3d deposition was not reduced following incubation with C4–/– serum. Scale bars: 25 μm. (B) Quantification of C3d deposits on the RTECs shown in A. Data shown are from 10 individual images for each of 4 independent experiments. Percentage of C3d-positive binding to Colec11–/– RTECs was determined from 5 to 7 individual fields, representative of 4 independent experiments, except for incubation with C4–/– serum, which was performed in 2 of those experiments. *P < 0.05, by 1-way ANOVA. (C) Representative fluorescence images of CL-11 (red), C3d (green), and a merged image of CL-11 and C3d in Colec11–/– RTECs that had been hypothermia stressed, pretreated with α-L-fucosidase or β-gal, and then incubated with NMS, demonstrating that CL-11 binding and C3d deposition were reduced by fucosidase treatment. A negative control of α-L-fucosidase–treated Colec11–/– RTECs, which had been incubated with Colec11–/– serum, is also shown. Scale bars: 25 μm. (D) Quantification of CL-11 binding and C3d deposition in the RTECs shown in C. Data shown are from 6 to 8 individual images and representative of 3 independent experiments. ****P < 0.001, by 2-way ANOVA. (E) Typical staining pattern for C3d on stressed Colec11–/– RTECs that had been incubated with medium alone or medium containing rCL-11 and then washed and subsequently incubated with Colec11–/– serum. (F) Quantification of C3d deposition in the RTECs shown in E. Data are from 6 individual images for each of 2 independent experiments. **P < 0.01, by unpaired, 2-tailed Student’s t test.

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