Pan Gao, Liliang Li, Liu Yang, Dingkun Gui, Jiarong Zhang, Junfeng Han, Jiajia Wang, Niansong Wang, Junxi Lu, Suzhen Chen, Liping Hou, Honglin Sun, Liping Xie, Jian Zhou, Chao Peng, Yan Lu, Xuemei Peng, Cunchuan Wang, Ji Miao, Umut Ozcan, Yu Huang, Weiping Jia, Junli Liu
Transforming growth factor-β1 (TGFβ1) has been identified as a major pathogenic factor underlying the development of diabetic nephropathy (DN). However, the current strategy of antagonizing TGFβ1 has failed to demonstrate favorable outcomes in clinical trials. To identify a different therapeutic approach, we designed a mass spectrometry-based DNA-protein interaction screen to find transcriptional repressors that bind to the TGFB1 promoter and identified Yin Yang 1 (YY1) as a potent repressor of TGFB1...
September 18, 2019: Science Translational Medicine