Molecular networks in Dahl salt-sensitive hypertension based on transcriptome analysis of a panel of consomic rats.
The Dahl salt-sensitive (SS) rat is a widely used model of human salt-sensitive hypertension and renal injury. We studied the molecular networks that underlie the complex disease phenotypes in the SS model, using a design that involved two consomic rat strains that were protected from salt-induced hypertension and one that was not protected. Substitution of Brown Norway (BN) chromosome 13 or 18, but not 20, into the SS genome was found to significantly attenuate salt-induced hypertension and albuminuria. Gene expression profiles were examined in the kidneys of SS and consomic SS-13(BN), SS-18(BN), and SS-20(BN) rats with a total of 240 cDNA microarrays. The substituted chromosome was overrepresented in genes differentially expressed between a consomic strain and SS rats on a 0.4% salt diet. F5, Serpinc1, Slc19a2, and genes represented by three other expressed sequence tags (ESTs), which are located on chromosome 13, were found to be differentially expressed between SS-13(BN) and all other strains examined. Likewise, Acaa2, B4galt6, Colec12, Hsd17b4, and five other ESTs located on chromosome 18 exhibited expression patterns unique to SS-18(BN). On exposure to a 4% salt diet, there were 184 ESTs in the renal cortex and 346 in the renal medulla for which SS-13(BN) and SS-18(BN) shared one expression pattern, while SS and SS-20(BN) shared another, mirroring the phenotypic segregation among the four strains. Molecular networks that might contribute to the development of Dahl salt-sensitive hypertension and albuminuria were constructed with an approach that merged biological knowledge-driven analysis and data-driven Bayesian probabilistic analysis.
Liang
Mingyu
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Department of Physiology, Medical College of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Wisconsin 53226, USA. mliang@mcw.edu
Lee
Norman H
NH
Wang
Hongying
H
Greene
Andrew S
AS
Kwitek
Anne E
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Kaldunski
Mary L
ML
Luu
Truong V
TV
Frank
Bryan C
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Bugenhagen
Scott
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Jacob
Howard J
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Cowley
Allen W
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D000419:Albuminuria / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D033481:Chromosomes, Mammalian / Q000235:genetics; D020869:Gene Expression Profiling; D005786:Gene Expression Regulation / Q000187:drug effects; D053263:Gene Regulatory Networks; D006973:Hypertension / Q000235:genetics*; D007178:Inbreeding; D020411:Oligonucleotide Array Sequence Analysis; D051381:Rats; D011914:Rats, Inbred BN; D020303:Rats, Inbred Dahl; D015203:Reproducibility of Results; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D017673:Sodium Chloride, Dietary / Q000494:pharmacology; D014158:Transcription, Genetic
D017673:Sodium Chloride, Dietary