title: The (pro)renin receptor in health and disease.
abstract: The renin-angiotensin system (RAS) is one of the most important systems in physiology and in pathology. The (pro)renin receptor ((P)RR) is a new component of the system that has attracted much attention being potentially a new therapeutic target. The receptor binds renin and the inactive proenzyme form of renin, prorenin, and the binding triggers the activation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase p42/p44 followed by up-regulation of the expression of profibrotic genes. In addition, prorenin bound to (P)RR undergoes a conformational change and becomes catalytically active. Many animal studies have tried to demonstrate a role for (P)RR in hypertension and in tissue damage associated with diabetes, but if they showed that increased (P)RR was found in kidney of diabetic mice associated with glomerulosclerosis and in heart of hypertensive rats associated with cardiac fibrosis, no definite link could be established between elevated (P)RR and cardiovascular and renal pathologies because of the absence of animal models with a tissue-specific (P)RR knock-out and a lack of a (P)RR antagonist. On the contrary, the human and the animal mutations are calling our attention to an essential role of (P)RR during early development, in particular in neuronal development.
authors.affiliation: Institut de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale, (INSERM) Unit 833 and Experimental Medicine Unit, Collège de France, 11 place Marcelin Berthelot, 75005, Paris, France. genevieve.nguyen@college-de-france.fr
authors.forename: Genevieve
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Nguyen
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D002318:Cardiovascular Diseases / Q000201:enzymology / Q000503:physiopathology; D003920:Diabetes Mellitus / Q000201:enzymology / Q000503:physiopathology; D003928:Diabetic Nephropathies / Q000201:enzymology / Q000503:physiopathology; D006801:Humans; D051379:Mice; D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases / Q000378:metabolism; D055495:Neurogenesis / Q000502:physiology; D051381:Rats; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D012083:Renin / Q000378:metabolism*; D012084:Renin-Angiotensin System; D025262:Vacuolar Proton-Translocating ATPases / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D000093342:Prorenin Receptor
chemical_list: D020928:Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinases; D011956:Receptors, Cell Surface; D012083:Renin; D025262:Vacuolar Proton-Translocating ATPases; C458319:ATP6AP2 protein, human; D000093342:Prorenin Receptor