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This study focuses on how endothelial cells contribute to ECM accumulation of renal fibrosis and suggests that MDK promotes ACTA2 expression by stabilizing the C/EBPβ protein.
Here the author reveal that histone crotonylation (including H3K9cr) exert a role in kidney fibrosis, where ACSS2 represents a potential target to slow fibrotic kidney disease progression.