Proteomic analysis of healthy and hyperglycemic murine fetal kidneys

Alteration of kidney morphogenesis in diabetic pregnancies is poorly described, especially changes in the extracellular matrix (ECM) and glomerular basement membrane (GBM during glomerulogenesis. Addressing the ECM proteome, or matrisome, in the mouse fetal kidney in a healthy and diabetic environment will improve understanding about the association between ECM changes in the kidney as potential reprogramming mechanisms of kidney differentiation in diabetic pregnancies. Therefore, to better understand ECM composition and remodelling in kidney developmental and appreciate the alterations associated to the maternal diabetes, this project aimed to define the matrisome in the mouse fetal kidney on embryonic day 19. For this, we used an ECM enrichment approach combined with high resolution label-free tandem mass spectrometry to define the matrisome in the fetal mouse kidney (healthy and hyperglycemic) to test the hypothesis that maternal diabetes influences ECM composition, assembly and, therefore, biology.