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Journal Article
Targeting allograft inflammatory factor 1 reprograms kidney macrophages to enhance repair
2025
Overview
The role of macrophages (MΦs) remains incompletely understood in kidney injury and repair. The plasticity of MΦs offers an opportunity to polarize them toward mediating injury resolution in both native and transplanted kidneys undergoing ischemia and/or rejection. Here, we show that infiltrating kidney MΦs augmented their own allograft inflammatory factor 1 (AIF-1) expression after injury. Aif1 genetic deletion led to MΦ polarization toward a reparative phenotype while halting the development of kidney fibrosis. The enhanced repair was mediated by higher levels of antiinflammatory and proregenerative markers, leading to a reduction in cell death and an increase in proliferation of kidney tubular epithelial cells after ischemia followed by reperfusion injury (I/RI). Adoptive transfer of Aif1 –/– MΦs into Aif1 +/+ mice conferred protection against I/RI. Conversely, depletion of MΦs reversed the tissue-reparative effects in Aif1 –/– mice. We further demonstrated increased expression of AIF-1 in human kidney biopsies from native kidneys with acute kidney injury or chronic kidney disease, as well as in biopsies from kidney allografts undergoing acute or chronic rejection. We conclude that AIF-1 is a MΦ marker of renal inflammation, and its targeting uncouples MΦ reparative functions from profibrotic functions. Thus, therapies inhibiting AIF-1 when ischemic injury is inevitable have the potential to reduce the global burden of kidney disease.
Publisher
American Society for Clinical Investigation
Subject
Acute Kidney Injury - genetics
/ Acute Kidney Injury - metabolism
/ Acute Kidney Injury - pathology
/ Animals
/ Atrophy
/ Biopsy
/ Calcium-Binding Proteins - genetics
/ Calcium-Binding Proteins - metabolism
/ Fibrosis
/ Graft Rejection - metabolism
/ Humans
/ Ischemia
/ Male
/ Mice
/ Microfilament Proteins - genetics
/ Microfilament Proteins - metabolism
/ Reperfusion Injury - genetics
