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ROLE OF WNT11 IN KIDNEY ONTOGENESIS AND DEVELOPMENT OF RENAL ORGANOID BASED MODELS TO IDENTIFY CANDIDATE ONCOGENES, ACTA UNIVERSITATIS OULUENSIS D Medica 1463

ISBN-10:	978-952-62-1910-3
Kieli:	englanti
Kustantaja:	Oulun yliopisto
Oppiaine:	Lääketiede
Painosvuosi:	2018
Sijainti:	Print Tietotalo
Sivumäärä:	114
Tekijät:	XU QI

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In the kidney, Wnt is involved in ureteric bud branching and nephrogenesis. Wnt mutation may lead to specific developmental dysfunctions and diseases. As part of this thesis, I show that Wnt11 is expressed in the renal tubules, except for the ureteric epitheliums, and I examine the function of Wnt11 in renal tubule organization using the new C57Bl6 Wnt11-/- mouse model. Convoluted and dilated tubules were observed in the Wnt11 mutated kidneys that may cause glomerular cysts and kidney dysfunction. More specifically, a lack of Wnt11 in the kidney reduced Six2, Hoxd1, and Hox10 expression, which may have contributed to the anomalies in the kidney tubular system. Embryogenesis and carcinogenesis share molecular characteristics. Gene expression changes take place during development to meet the demands of the tissue formation, but ectopic expression of embryonic genes by deletion, SNPs, or epigenetic modification in adult may lead to cancer. The research carried out as part of this thesis identified genes that were differentially expressed in both induced metanephric mesenchymes (MM) and human ccRCC. Gene silencing of Bnip3, Gsn, Lgals3, Pax8, Cav1, Egfr, and Itgb2 mediated by siRNA inhibited the migration, viability and invasion capacity of Renca cells (RCC). Furthermore, by using the novel 3D in vitro MM-Renca co-culture setup, the result revealed that downregulation of Bnip3, Cav1 or Gsn in Renca cells partly rescued the RCC-mediated inhibition epithelial tubules formation during nephrogenesis. Altogether, the data demonstrates that renal ontogenesis control genes play a role both in normal kidney development and in kidney cancer. The 3D RCC-MM chimera organoids developed as part of the research may also serve as a novel model for kidney cancer study.

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