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Hypoxia-induced inflammation and apoptosis are important pathophysiological features of heat stroke-induced acute kidney injury (HS-AKI). Hypoxia-inducible factor (HIF) is a key protein that regulates cell adaptation to hypoxia. HIF-prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor (HIF-PHI) stabilizes HIF to increase cell adaptation to hypoxia. Herein, we reported that HIF-PHI pretreatment significantly improved renal function, enhanced thermotolerance, and increased the survival rate of mice in the context of HS. Moreover, HIF-PHI could alleviate HS-induced mitochondrial damage, inflammation, and apoptosis in renal tubular epithelial cells (RTECs) by enhancing mitophagy in vitro and in vivo. By contrast, mitophagy inhibitors Mdivi-1, 3-MA, and Baf-A1 reversed the renoprotective effects of HIF-PHI. Mechanistically, HIF-PHI protects RTECs from inflammation and apoptosis by enhancing Bcl-2 adenovirus E18 19-kDa-interacting protein 3 (BNIP3)-mediated mitophagy, while genetic ablation of BNIP3 attenuated HIF-PHI-induced mitophagy and abolished HIF-PHI-mediated renal protection. Thus, our results indicated that HIF-PHI protects renal function by upregulating BNIP3-mediated mitophagy to improve HS-induced inflammation and apoptosis of RTECs, suggesting HIF-PHI as a promising therapeutic agent to treat HS-AKI. © 2024 The Author(s). The FASEB Journal published by Wiley Periodicals LLC on behalf of Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology.

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Ling Wang, Yongwei Song, Pan Zhang, Wenting Chen, Fei Xiao, Ping Zhou, Xuesen Yang, Huanzi Dai. Hypoxia-inducible factor prolyl hydroxylase inhibitor alleviates heatstroke-induced acute kidney injury by activating BNIP3-mediated mitophagy. FASEB journal : official publication of the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology. 2024 Jun 30;38(12):e23723

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