Abstract
The accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) have been implicated in the development and progression of diabetic kidney disease (DKD). There has been interest in investigating the potential of AGE clearance receptors, such as oligosaccharyltransferase-48 kDa subunit (OST48) to prevent the detrimental effects of excess AGE accumulation seen in the diabetic kidney. Here the objective of the study was to increase the expression of OST48 to examine if this slowed the development of DKD by facilitating the clearance of AGEs. Groups of 8-week-old heterozygous knock-in male mice (n = 9–12/group) over-expressing the gene encoding for OST48, dolichyl-diphosphooligosaccharide-protein glycosyltransferase (DDOST+/−) and litter mate controls were randomised to either (i) no diabetes or (ii) diabetes induced via multiple low-dose streptozotocin and followed for 24 weeks. By the study end, global over expression of OST48 increased glomerular OST48. This facilitated greater renal excretion of AGEs but did not affect circulating or renal AGE concentrations. Diabetes resulted in kidney damage including lower glomerular filtration rate, albuminuria, glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis. In diabetic mice, tubulointerstitial fibrosis was further exacerbated by global increases in OST48. There was significantly insulin effectiveness, increased acute insulin secretion, fasting insulin concentrations and AUCinsulin observed during glucose tolerance testing in diabetic mice with global elevations in OST48 when compared to diabetic wild-type littermates. Overall, this study suggested that despite facilitating urinary-renal AGE clearance, there were no benefits observed on kidney functional and structural parameters in diabetes afforded by globally increasing OST48 expression. However, the improvements in insulin secretion seen in diabetic mice with global over-expression of OST48 and their dissociation from effects on kidney function warrant future investigation.
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Introduction
Currently, the world is faced with a pandemic of both type 1 and type 2 diabetes (T1D and T2D)1,2, defined by persistent hyperglycaemia, which is a predominant factor in the development of concomitant complications3,4. A major complication, diabetic kidney disease (DKD) is a worldwide health concern and is an important risk factor for end-stage renal disease (ESRD)5 and cardiovascular disease3,6. Understanding the pathophysiology of DKD development and progression is therefore, a key challenge to reduce the burden of diabetic complications. The early clinical presentation of DKD is characterised by hyperfiltration, progressive proteinuria and associative glomerular injury accompanied by tubulointerstitial fibrosis and in the later stages, a steady progressive decline in renal function7. Unfortunately, despite optimal clinical management, involving both glycaemic8,9 and blood pressure control10, including inhibitors of the renin-angiotensin-aldosterone system11,12, it is only possible to achieve a 30% improvement in declining kidney function in DKD. Despite intervention, many individuals reach end stage disease requiring renal replacement therapy or die prematurely from a cardiovascular event13. Hence new therapies to combat DKD are urgently required.
AGE accumulation, specifically the deposition of N-(carboxymethyl)lysine (CML) within tissues is a pathological mediator in DKD14,15. It is postulated that under physiological conditions, OST48 may facilitate AGE clearance into the urine16 and that this function is impaired during the development and progression of DKD17 resulting in pathological accumulation of AGE at sites such as the kidney. OST48 (also known as AGER1) dually functions as an extracellular AGE binding protein18 and as a 48 kDa subunit that functions as part of the oligosaccharyltransferase complex, which mediates the transfer of high-mannose oligosaccharides to asparagine residues within the lumen of the rough ER. OST48 gene and protein expression are decreased by diets abundantly rich in AGEs19 and by diabetes20,21. In addition, there are associations between lower OST48 levels in circulating immune cells and progressive diabetic nephropathy in a small cohort of patients with type 1 diabetes22,23 and with impaired insulin sensitivity patients with in type 2 diabetes24,25. To date, there has been one, in vivo investigation using untargeted over-expression of OST48. This study in elderly mice (>500 days old) demonstrated improvements in longevity, insulin sensitivity and resistance to balloon injury in blood vessels26. However, there are no studies where the efficacy of increasing OST48 expression to facilitate AGE clearance has been tested in the development of kidney disease including DKD.
A SNP array from the FinnDiane population study (n = 2719) inferred that there was an association of the OST48 gene, DDOST (rs2170336), with nephropathy development in individuals with T1D27. Additionally, a study in T1D patients identified that elevated serum AGEs were associated with increased OST48 mRNA in circulating mononuclear cells22. Moreover, the functional loss of DDOST in humans, demonstrates a phenotype with characteristics known as congenital disorders of glycosylation (CDG)28. A sole case was described in a seven-year-old male child with CDG, whose condition arose from the inheritance of a maternal missense mutation and a paternal point mutation resulting in a premature stop codon and as a result the patient exhibited severe hypoglycosylation28. It was shown however that restored wild-type DDOST cDNA in the patients’ fibroblasts rescued glycosylation, thus indicating the importance of functional DDOST in a pathological environment28.
For the present study, we hypothesised that mice with a global OST48 overexpression would be protected from increases in circulating AGEs and impaired kidney function in the context of diabetes. Specifically, we aimed to identify whether increased OST48 in the presence of hyperglycaemia could drive AGE lowering to protect against AGE-mediated microvascular damage typically seen in DKD, such as glomerular pathology and greater tubulointerstitial fibrosis.
Results
Characterisation of diabetes in a site directed global OST48 knock-in mouse model
Mice were generated with a global over-expression of OST48 (DDOST+/−)29. These mice exhibited variation in food and water consumption, urine output and a significant reduction in kidney weight compared with wild-type mice (Table 1). Diabetes was characterised by elevated GHb, fed/fasting blood glucose and increased fasting insulin (Table 1). Diabetic mice had significantly lower mean total body weight, increased urine output as well as increased food and water consumption and renal hypertrophy (Table 1).
Increased glomerular OST48 facilitated AGE urinary excretion in DDOST+/− mice
SWATH proteomics in renal cortices enriched for glomerular proteins identified that non-diabetic DDOST+/− mice had a significant increase in OST48 protein abundancy (48.39-fold increase) over non-diabetic wild-type mice (Fig. 1A). There was also a tendency toward increased OST48 protein in glomerular fractions from diabetic DDOST+/− mice (P = 0.07; 14.44-fold increase) compared to diabetic wild-type mice (Fig. 1A). Surprisingly, there was no significant increase in OST48 seen in tubular enriched protein fractions (Fig. 1B) from DDOST+/− mice (Fig. 1C). Glomerular OST48 appeared to be predominately expressed by podocytes as indicated by the co-localisation of nephrin (Fig. 1D) as well as within proximal tubule cells expressing SGLT2 (Fig. 1E). Subsequently, there was a significant increase in renal AGE excretion by all diabetic mice as well as the non-diabetic DDOST+/− mice (Fig. 1F). Specifically, urinary AGE excretion determined by total N-(carboxymethyl)lysine (CML) was increased by ~120% in non-diabetic DDOST+/− mice compared to wild-type mice (Fig. 1F; P = 0.033). However, DDOST+/− mice showed no increases in AGE accumulation in either kidney tissue (Fig. 1G) or within the circulation (Fig. 1H).
Diabetic DDOST+/− mice had no improvements in kidney function despite increased urinary AGE excretion
All diabetic mice had impaired kidney function as ascertained by a decrease in creatinine clearance (Fig. 2A), which was not affected by OST48 overexpression. Diabetic mice also had albuminuria when assessed by either albumin:creatinine ratio (Fig. 2B) or 24 hour urinary albumin excretion (Fig. 2C). Therefore, increased OST48 expression did not prevent the decline in kidney function which is characteristic of diabetic kidney disease.
Globally increasing OST48 expression did not protect against diabetes-induced kidney structural damage
Diabetes resulted in glomerulosclerosis in both genotypes to the same degree by the study end (Fig. 3A). This was supported by SWATH proteomics data from kidney cortices enriched for glomerular proteins which demonstrated significant increases in the abundance of collagen proteins in diabetic mice (Fig. 3B). Increasing the expression of OST48 also did not prevent tubulointerstitial fibrosis (TIF) in the kidneys of diabetic mice, as seen with Masson’s trichrome (Fig. 3C) and Sirius red (Fig. 3D) staining. Indeed, there was exacerbation of TIF in diabetic DDOST+/− by comparison to diabetic wild-type littermates (Fig. 3D; 32.0% increase, P = 0.043).
Diabetic mice with globally increased OST48 expression have greater insulin secretory capacity and increased P13K-AKT activity in glomeruli, which is dissociated from deterioration in kidney function
In the absence of diabetes, globally increasing the expression of OST48 had no significant effect on insulin sensitivity or glucose tolerance (Fig. 4A–G). However, when diabetes was induced, mice with a global over-expression of OST48 had significant reduction in fractional glucose excretion (Fig. 4A), increases in fasting plasma insulin (Fig. 4B) and lower blood glucose concentrations during an ipGTT, both acutely at 15 minutes (11.9% decrease, P = 0.097) and 30 minutes (14.2% decrease, P = 0.017) post-bolus of D-glucose (Fig. 4C). Consistent with these changes, overall insulin secretion (Fig. 4D; average 77.4% increase, P < 0.05–0.001), first phase insulin secretion (Fig. 4E, 99.5% increase, P = 0.0005) and the AUC insulin (Fig. 4F) during the ipGTT were all greater in diabetic mice over expressing OST48, when compared to littermate wild type diabetic mice. Insulin effectiveness (AUIC:AUGC) was also greater in diabetic DDOST+/− mice compared to diabetic wild-type mice (Fig. 4E–G; 99.5% increase, P = 0.0005). During fed conditions an insulin tolerance test (ipITT), all diabetic DDOST+/− mice had decreased responsiveness to insulin with persistently elevated plasma glucose concentrations, when compared to non-diabetic mice (Fig. 4H) but did not differ between genotypes. This was particularly evident during the first 60-minutes of the ipITT, where there was a rapid decline in plasma glucose concentrations in non-diabetic mice (Fig. 4H-I; 490% decline compared to diabetic mice), with rapid recovery of blood glucose concentrations by 120 mins. This increase in insulin secretion and effectiveness was also confirmed by increased PI3K-AKT activation in the glomerular enriched fractions from mice over-expressing OST48 Fig. 4J).
Discussion
There has been some speculation that increasing AGE clearance via increases in OST48 could alleviate the development and progression of diabetic kidney disease19,20,22,30,31. We have shown for the first time that globally increasing OST48 through the over-expression of DDOST in a mouse model of diabetes, did not protect against kidney disease. Indeed, there was an exacerbation of tubulointerstitial fibrosis seen in diabetic mice with a global over-expression of OST48. Quite surprisingly, however, this was despite significant improvements in insulin secretory capacity and action in these diabetic DDOST+/− mice. Therefore, this study dissociated improvements in insulin secretion from slowing the onset and progression of DKD, in mice over-expressing OST48.
Previous studies have suggested that increasing AGE clearance from the body through the OST48 pathway prevents oxidative stress19 and inflammatory responses32, as well as improving healing and hyperglycaemia26, concluding that increased OST48 activity could have potential benefits to alleviate vascular complications in diabetes19,31 including DKD19,32. Moreover, previous studies have alluded at the potential benefits of AGE restriction and reducing serum AGE levels in diabetic patients24,33,34,35, and suggested that AGE excretion facilitated through increased OST48 could reduce the AGE burden16,24,26,36,37. We have recently published data evidence of a global overexpression of OST48 in combination with a secondary impact of a high AGE diet causes liver abnormalities which likely contribute to changes in insulin handling and a metabolic shift of fuel utilisation29. We were surprised, that increasing AGE clearance by the kidneys, via globally increasing OST48 expression had no effect on kidney function and structural parameters in this mouse model of diabetes and worsened renal pathology.
In our mouse model the lack of effect of OST48 to alleviate DKD was despite modest improvements to insulin secretory capacity, although this was not sufficient to improve the long-term markers of glycaemic control (GHb), nor fasting and fed plasma glucose concentrations. However, our data is in agreement with the DCCT/EDIC clinical trials, which indicate that without effective reduction in blood glucose early in disease development, there was no reduction in the risk in development of diabetic vascular complications including DKD38,39. There have been previous studies where AGEs have been shown to impair insulin secretion40,41 although it is unclear as to the role that OST48 plays in beta cells. However, we have identified that OST48 is expressed in beta cells42. In addition, further investigation would be required to elucidate why these apparent improvements in insulin secretion seen in diabetic OST48 mice did not translate to improved long-term clinical markers of glycaemic control. However, this may just indicate that modest improvements in insulin secretion later in disease are not sufficient to alter the progression of diabetic kidney disease.
There was also a decline in renal AGE content seen with diabetes, which was consistent with the increases in AGE excretion into the urine, but this was not affected by OST48. In agreement with our findings, another study showed that increasing OST48 expression in mice also facilitated urinary AGE clearance, without affecting renal AGE concentrations26. This would suggest that rather than specific AGE uptake into the kidney the flux of AGEs through the kidney into the urine, may trip signalling cascades for other AGE receptors such as RAGE43. This could be feasibly responsible for the observed glomerulosclerosis and tubulointerstitial fibrosis44 with diabetes and with OST48 overexpression where chronic binding of circulating AGEs to RAGE results in diabetic kidney and cardiovascular disease35,44,45. Increased AGE flux from the circulation to the urine, is also postulated in other studies to have detrimental effects on proximal tubules contributing to tubulointerstitial fibrosis46, which is consistent with our model. However, we do not suspect defects in protein N-glycosylation contributed to the kidney pathology seen with OST48 overexpression47. This is because, we have previously shown that ubiquitous global overexpression of OST48 does not impair nor alter protein N-glycosylation29.
Despite the ineffectiveness of increased OST48 to protect against the development of diabetic kidney disease, we did however observe benefits on insulin secretion, fasting insulin and insulin sensitivity by globally elevating OST48 in diabetic mice. Our data suggests that downstream insulin receptor activity via P13K and diverging into increased lipogenesis, glycolysis and glycogenesis (starch and sucrose metabolism) occurs in the kidney when OST48 is increased. Our data is in concordance with previous human studies which suggest that AGE restriction whether through dietary24 or therapeutic33 methods improve insulin sensitivity and decrease in serum OST48 concentrations24. We have also consistently shown that AGE lowering therapies which decrease the burden of AGEs improve both insulin secretion40 and improve insulin sensitivity48,49.
In summary, these studies revealed that increasing OST48 expression globally does not prevent the development of DKD. Specifically, in diabetic mice, increasing OST48 expression did not prevent the decline in kidney function, glomerulosclerosis and exacerbated tubulointerstitial fibrosis. Therefore, we would suggest that increasing the flux of AGEs into the urine is not a strategy worth pursuing in DKD. Similarly, it appears that increasing AGE signalling in the kidney via receptors such as RAGE without increasing kidney AGE content, is responsible for this lack of protective effect. Therefore, this study suggests that globally increasing the expression of OST48 thereby increasing urinary AGE excretion does not improve kidney function in the context of diabetes. However, further studies are required to identify whether kidney cell-specific modulation of OST48 may be superior to a global approach.
Materials and Methods
Animal husbandry
Male C57BL/6J wild-type mice and littermate heterozygotes with a ubiquitous genetic insertion of the human gene encoding AGE-R1/OST48 (DDOST+/−) at the ROSA26 locus (ROSA26tm1(DDOST)Jfo; termed as DDOST+/−) were generated (Ozgene, Australia). Between 6–8 weeks of age (Week 0), diabetes was induced in male wildtype (n = 9) and DDOST+/− (n = 9) mice by multiple low dose intraperitoneal injections of streptozotocin (STZ)50, at a dosage of 55 mg/kg/day (dissolved in sodium citrate buffer, pH 4.5) for 5 consecutive days. Control or non-diabetic male wild-type (n = 11) or DDOST+/− (n = 12) mice received equivalent injections of sodium citrate buffer alone. After 10 days of recovery, blood glucose concentrations were determined and then repeated weekly to ensure mice included were diabetic (blood glucose concentrations >15 mmol/L). Mice were housed in specific pathogen free housing conditions and allowed access to food and water ad libitum and were maintained on a 12 hour light:dark cycle at 22 °C. All mice received a diet of standard mouse chow low in AGE content (AIN-93G40; Specialty Feeds, Australia) ad libitum. At 0 and 12 weeks of the study, mice were housed in metabolic cages (Iffa Credo, l’Arbresle, France) for 24 hours to determine food and water consumption. Urine output was also measured during caging and urinary glucose determined by a glucometer (SensoCard Plus, POCD, Australia).
Intraperitoneal glucose and insulin tolerance testing (IPGTT/IPITT)
Intraperitoneal glucose (ipGTT) and insulin (ipITT) tolerance tests were performed as outlined previously51. Briefly, for ipGTT experiments, mice were fasted for 6 hours and a 1 g/kg bolus of glucose was injected intraperitoneally (ip) and 50 µl of blood was sampled at 0, 15, 30, 60, and 120 mins for plasma glucose and insulin analysis. During ipITT experiments, mice were injected with 1.0U of fast acting insulin/kg (Humulin) diluted in 0.9% saline and 50 µl of blood was sampled at 0, 30, 60, and 120 mins for plasma glucose analysis.
Liquid chromatography-mass spectrometry (LC-MS/MS)
As previously described52, proteins were extracted from whole liver tissue samples using guanidine denaturing buffer (6 M guanidinium, 10 mM DTT and 50 mM Tris-HCl). Reduced cysteines were alkylated with acrylamide, and quenched with excess DTT. Proteins were precipitated in 4 volumes of 1:1 methanol:acetone and digested with trypsin. Peptides were desalted and analysed by Information Dependent Acquisition LC-MS/MS as described53 using a Prominence nanoLC system (Shimadzu, NSW, Australia) and Triple TOF 5600 mass spectrometer with a Nanospray III interface (SCIEX). SWATH-MS analysis was performed54 and analysed with MSstats as previously described. Differentially abundant proteins were analysed using DAVID55.
Serum/urine creatinine and clearance
Serum and urinary creatinine were measured spectrophotometrically at 550 nm (Cobas Mira, Roche Diagnostics, Australia), and the ratio of creatinine clearance was determined as specific measure of renal function.
Albumin excretion rate
Urine albumin was measured spectrophotometrically at 620 nm (FLUOstar Optima, BMG Labtech, Australia), and 24-hour albumin excretion rate was calculated by normalizing the levels of albumin to the flow rate of urine.
Histology and imaging
Paraffin-embedded sections were stained with either a Periodic acid Schiff (PAS) staining kit (Sigma-Aldrich, United States), a Trichrome (Masson) staining kit (Sigma-Aldrich, St. Louis, Missouri, USA) or Sirius Red (Sigma-Aldrich, United States). All sections were visualized on an Olympus Slide scanner VS120 (Olympus, Japan) and viewed in the supplied program (OlyVIA Build 10555, Olympus, Japan). Slides were quantified based on threshold analysis in Fiji56. Briefly, for immunofluorescence staining, paraffin-embedded sections were stained with a combination of either anti-CML (1:200 dilution; ab27684; Abcam, United Kingdom), OST48 (H-1; 1:100 dilution; SC-74408; Santa Cruz biotechnologies, United States), nephrin (1:100 dilution; ab27684; Abcam, United Kingdom) and SGLT2 (M-17; 1:100 dilution; sc-47403; Santa Cruz biotechnologies, United States). Confocal images were visualized on an Olympus FV1200 confocal microscope (Olympus, Japan) and viewed in the supplied program (FV10, Olympus, Japan).
Glomerulosclerotic index (GSI)
GSI as a measure of glomerular fibrosis was evaluated in a blinded manner by a semi-quantitative method57. Severity of glomerular damage was assessed on the following parameters; mesangial matrix expansion and/or hyalinosis of focal adhesions, true glomerular tuft occlusion, sclerosis and capillary dilation. Specifically, grade 0 indicates a normal glomerulus; 1, <25% glomerular injury; grade 2, 26–50%; grade 3, 51–75%; and grade 4, >75%.
Statistical analyses
Results are expressed as mean ± SD (standard deviation), and assessed in GraphPad Prism V7.01 for Windows (GraphPad Software, United States). Normally distributed parameters (tested with D’Agostino & Pearson omnibus normality test) were tested for statistical significance by 2-way ANOVA followed by post hoc testing for multiple comparisons using the Bonferroni method unless otherwise specified. For comparison between groups as required, a two-tailed unpaired Student’s t-test was used where specified. For SWATH-MS, MSstatsV3.10.058 was used to detect differentially abundant proteins estimating the log-fold changes between compared conditions of the chosen experimental group and with the wild-type non-diabetic mice. For all calculations, a P < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.
Experimental animal ethics statement
All animal studies and experiments were performed in accordance with guidelines provided and approved by the AMREP (Alfred Medical Research and Education Precinct) Animal Ethics Committee and the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (E/0846/2009B).
Data Availability
The datasets generated and analysed during the current study are available from the corresponding author on reasonable request.
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The authors would like to acknowledge Maryann Arnstein and Anna Gasser at Baker IDI Heart and Diabetes Institute, Australia, and David Briskey at the School of Human Movement and Nutrition Sciences, University Queensland, Australia, for technical assistance. J.M.F. is supported by a Senior Research Fellowship (APP1004503;1102935) from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia (NH&MRC). BLS is supported by a Career Development Fellowship (APP1087975) from the NH&MRC. AZ received a scholarship from Kidney Health Australia (SCH17; 141516) and the Mater Research Foundation. MTC is supported by a Career Development Fellowship from the Australian Type 1 Diabetes Clinical Research Network, a special initiative of the Australian Research Council. This research was supported by the NH&MRC, Kidney Health Australia and the Mater Foundation, which had no role in the study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation or the manuscript. This work has been supported through the funding bodies of the National Health Medical Research Council (NHMRC) Australia, Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation (JDRF), Kidney Health Australia (KHA) and the Mater Research Foundation.
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Zhuang, A., Yap, F.Y.T., McCarthy, D. et al. Globally elevating the AGE clearance receptor, OST48, does not protect against the development of diabetic kidney disease, despite improving insulin secretion. Sci Rep 9, 13664 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-019-50221-0
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