The AGE receptor, OST48 drives podocyte foot process effacement and basement membrane expansion in experimental diabetic kidney disease via promotion of endoplasmic reticulum stress
Aowen Zhuang, Felicia Y. T. Yap, Domenica A. McCarthy…·Josephine Maree Forbes
This study shows that increased podocyte expression of oligosaccharyltransferase-48kDa subunit worsens diabetic kidney disease by causing endoplasmic reticulum stress and kidney dysfunction.