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Oncostatin M-induced effects on EMT in human proximal tubular cells: differential role of ERK signaling

¹Division of Nephrology, Department of Internal Medicine, and ²Division of Hygiene and Social Medicine and ³Division of Physiology, Innsbruck Medical University, Innsbruck, Austria; ⁴Department of Cell Physiology and Metabolism, School of Medicine, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; and ⁵Department of Nephrology and Rheumatology, Georg-August-University Medical Center, Gottingen, Germany

Submitted 20 March 2007 ; accepted in final form 13 September 2007

Growing evidence suggests that a proportion of interstitial myofibroblasts detected during renal tubulointerstitial fibrosis originates from tubular epithelial cells by a process called epithelial-mesenchymal transition (EMT). The IL-6-type cytokine oncostatin M (OSM) has been recently implicated in the induction of EMT. We investigated OSM effects on the expression of both cell-cell contact proteins and mesenchymal markers and studied OSM-induced intracellular signaling mechanisms associated with these events in human proximal tubular cells. Human recombinant OSM attenuated the expression of N-cadherin, E-cadherin, and claudin-2 in human kidney-2 (HK-2) cells associated with the induction of HK-2 cell scattering in 3D collagen matrices. Conversely, expression of collagen type I, vimentin, and S100A4 was induced by OSM. OSM-stimulated cell scattering was inhibited by antibodies against gp130. Besides inducing phosphorylation of Stat1 and Stat3, OSM led to a strong concentration- and time-dependent phosphorylation of the mitogen-activated protein kinases ERK1, ERK2, and ERK5. MEK1/2 inhibitor U0126 (10 µM) blocked basal and OSM-induced ERK1/2 phosphorylation but not phosphorylation of either ERK5 or Stat1/3. Both synthetic MEK1/2 inhibitors U0126 and Cl-1040, when used at concentrations which inhibit ERK1/2 phosphorylation but not ERK5 phosphorylation, restored N-cadherin expression in the presence of OSM, inhibited basal claudin-2 expression, but did not affect either basal or OSM-inhibited E-cadherin expression or OSM-induced expression of collagen type I and vimentin. These results suggest that in human proximal tubular cells ERK1/2 signaling represents an important component of OSM's inhibitory effect on N-cadherin expression. Furthermore, functional ERK1/2 signaling is necessary for basal claudin-2 expression.

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