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Coenzyme Q₁₀ supplementation rescues renal disease in Pdss2^kd/kd mice with mutations in prenyl diphosphate synthase subunit 2

¹Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry and the Molecular Biology Institute, University of California, Los Angeles, California; ²Department of Genetics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; and ³Department of Life Science and Biotechnology, Shimane University, Matsue, Japan

Submitted 30 July 2008 ; accepted in final form 7 September 2008

Homozygous mice carrying kd (kidney disease) mutations in the gene encoding prenyl diphosphate synthase subunit 2 (Pdss2^kd/kd) develop interstitial nephritis and eventually die from end-stage renal disease. The PDSS2 polypeptide in concert with PDSS1 synthesizes the polyisoprenyl tail of coenzyme Q (Q or ubiquinone), a lipid quinone required for mitochondrial respiratory electron transport. We have shown that a deficiency in Q content is evident in Pdss2^kd/kd mouse kidney lipid extracts by 40 days of age and thus precedes the onset of proteinuria and kidney disease by several weeks. The presence of the kd (V117M) mutation in PDSS2 does not prevent its association with PDSS1. However, heterologous expression of the kd mutant form of PDSS2 together with PDSS1 in Escherichia coli recapitulates the Q deficiency observed in the Pdss2^kd/kd mouse. Dietary supplementation with Q₁₀ provides a dramatic rescue of both proteinuria and interstitial nephritis in the Pdss2^kd/kd mutant mice. The results presented suggest that Q may be acting as a potent lipid-soluble antioxidant, rather than by boosting kidney mitochondrial respiration. Such Q₁₀ supplementation may have profound and beneficial effects in treatment of certain forms of focal segmental glomerulosclerosis that mirror the renal disease of the Pdss2^kd/kd mouse.

ubiquinone; mitochondrial lipid metabolism; genetic renal disease; focal segmental glomerulosclerosis; antioxidant

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