TY  - JOUR
AU  - Demir, Fatih
AU  - Troldborg, Anne
AU  - Thiel, Steffen
AU  - Lassé, Moritz
AU  - Huesgen, Pitter
AU  - Tomas, Nicola M.
AU  - Wiech, Thorsten
AU  - Rinschen, Markus M.
TI  - Proteolysis and inflammation of the kidney glomerulus
JO  - Cell & tissue research
VL  - 385
SN  - 1432-0878
CY  - Heidelberg
PB  - Springer
M1  - FZJ-2021-02184
SP  - 489–500
PY  - 2021
AB  - Proteases play a central role in regulating renal pathophysiology and are increasingly evaluated as actionable drug targets. Here, we review the role of proteolytic systems in inflammatory kidney disease. Inflammatory kidney diseases are associated with broad dysregulations of extracellular and intracellular proteolysis. As an example of a proteolytic system, the complement system plays a significant role in glomerular inflammatory kidney disease and is currently under clinical investigation. Based on two glomerular kidney diseases, lupus nephritis, and membranous nephropathy, we portrait two proteolytic pathomechanisms and the role of the complement system. We discuss how profiling proteolytic activity in patient samples could be used to stratify patients for more targeted interventions in inflammatory kidney diseases. We also describe novel comprehensive, quantitative tools to investigate the entirety of proteolytic processes in a tissue sample. Emphasis is placed on mass spectrometric approaches that enable the comprehensive analysis of the complement system, as well as protease activities and regulation in general.
LB  - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
C6  - 33864499
UR  - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000640856700003
DO  - DOI:10.1007/s00441-021-03433-8
UR  - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/892594
ER  -