PUBLICATION
Single-cell mRNA profiling reveals changes in solute carrier expression and suggests a metabolic switch during zebrafish pronephros development
- Authors
- Schoels, M., Zhuang, M., Fahrner, A., Kuechlin, S., Sagar, S., Franz, H., Schmitt, A., Walz, G., Yakulov, T.A.
- ID
- ZDB-PUB-210323-11
- Date
- 2021
- Source
- American journal of physiology. Renal physiology 320(5): F826-F837 (Journal)
- Registered Authors
- Keywords
- pronephros, single-cell RNA sequencing, zebrafish
- Datasets
- GEO:GSE162031
- MeSH Terms
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- Animals
- Energy Metabolism/genetics*
- Gene Expression Profiling*
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Pronephros/embryology
- Pronephros/metabolism*
- RNA, Messenger/genetics*
- RNA, Messenger/metabolism
- RNA-Seq
- Single-Cell Analysis*
- Solute Carrier Proteins/genetics*
- Solute Carrier Proteins/metabolism
- Transcriptome*
- Zebrafish/embryology
- Zebrafish/genetics*
- Zebrafish/metabolism
- Zebrafish Proteins/genetics*
- Zebrafish Proteins/metabolism
- PubMed
- 33749326 Full text @ Am. J. Physiol. Renal Physiol.
Citation
Schoels, M., Zhuang, M., Fahrner, A., Kuechlin, S., Sagar, S., Franz, H., Schmitt, A., Walz, G., Yakulov, T.A. (2021) Single-cell mRNA profiling reveals changes in solute carrier expression and suggests a metabolic switch during zebrafish pronephros development. American journal of physiology. Renal physiology. 320(5):F826-F837.
Abstract
Developing organisms need to adapt to environmental variations as well as to rapid changes in substrate availability and energy demands imposed by fast-growing tissues and organs. Little is known about the adjustments that kidneys undergo in response to these challenges. We performed single-cell RNA sequencing of zebrafish pronephric duct cells to understand how the developing kidney responds to changes in filtered substrates and intrinsic energy requirements. We found high levels of glucose transporters early in development and increased expression of monocarboxylate transporters at later times. This indicates that the zebrafish embryonal kidney displays a high glucose transporting capacity during early development, which is replaced by the ability to absorb monocarboxylates and amino acids at later stages. This change in transport capacity was accompanied by upregulation of mitochondrial carriers, indicating a switch to increased oxidative phosphorylation to meet the increasing energy demand of a developing kidney.
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Phenotype
Mutations / Transgenics
Human Disease / Model
Sequence Targeting Reagents
Fish
Orthology
Engineered Foreign Genes
Mapping