Abstract
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is an important public health concern and characterized as tubular death involved in apoptosis and necrosis. Autophagy is rapidly induced in tubules and associates with renal tubular cells homeostasis to have a complex link with tubular death in AKI. Numb is a multifunctional protein and exerts protective role in tubular death in AKI induced by Cisplatin. However, the effect of Numb on tubular autophagy remains to be investigated. In the present study, the protein expression of LC3 and Beclin-1 related to autophagy was analyzed in Cisplatin-induced AKI mice with knocking down Numb. In model of tubular injury induced by Cisplatin in vitro, downregulation of Numb in NRK-52E cells also inhibited the activation of autophagy accompanied with the decreased protein level of p53. Overexpression of Numb in NRK-52E cells activated autophagy with increased LC3 and Beclin-1 expression accompanied with increased protein level of p53. Moreover, autophagy activation following Numb overexpression was suppressed by p53 inhibitor pifithrin-α. These data indicate that Numb promotes p53-mediated activation of tubular autophagy in AKI induced by Cisplatin and therefore may provide important targets for the treatment of AKI.
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