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Diabetes 52:2594-2602, 2003
© 2003 by the American Diabetes Association, Inc.

Glucose Induces Clonal Selection and Reversible Dinucleotide Repeat Expansion in Mesangial Cells Isolated from Glomerulosclerosis-Prone Mice

Alessia Fornoni1,2, Oliver Lenz1,3, Liliane J. Striker1,3, and Gary E. Striker1

1 Vascular Biology Institute, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
2 Department of Medicine, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida
3 Division of Nephrology, University of Miami School of Medicine, Miami, Florida

Clonal selection has been proposed as a pathogenetic mechanism in various chronic diseases, such as scleroderma, hypertension, pulmonary fibrosis, interstitial fibrosis of the kidney, atherosclerosis, and uterine leiomyomatosis. We previously found that mesangial cells from ROP mice prone to develop glomerulosclerosis changed their phenotype in response to high glucose concentrations. Here, we investigate whether clonal selection might contribute to this phenotype change. We found that in ROP mice at least two distinct mesangial cell clones exist. They are characterized by a different length of the d(CA) repeat in the MMP-9 promoter and exhibit a significantly different gene expression profile. Exposure of ROP mesangial cells to 25 mmol/l glucose for 35 days induces both clonal selection and reversible dinucleotide repeat expansion. None of these findings were present in mesangial cells isolated from C57BL/6 mice, which are not sclerosis-prone. We conclude that mesangial cell michrochimerism may be a marker for the susceptibility to glomerulosclerosis, that dinucleotide repeat expansion may be a novel mechanism for glucose-induced changes in gene expression, and that clonal selection may partially explain the change in mesangial cell phenotype in diabetes.

Address correspondence and reprint requests to Oliver Lenz, 1600 N.W. 10th Ave., Room 7168 (R-126), Miami, FL 33136. E-mail: olenz{at}med.miami.edu


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