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Metabolic surgery mitigates early kidney injury in obese youth with diabetes by suppressing mTORC1/JAK–STAT signaling

GSE315877 Homo sapiens (human) Single-cell RNA-seq 16 samples Submitted 2026/01/09 Platform GPL11154
At a glance

Single-cell RNA-seq · human · 16 samples

What it is
Single-cell RNA-seqGene activity measured in thousands of individual cells, so cell types can be told apart. Read from the summary: GEO's own type field only says 'expression profiling by sequencing', so confirm it in the paper.
Organism
Homo sapiens (human)
Samples
16 samples: 6 × Healthy control vs 5 × Biol rep 1 Patient vs 5 × Biol rep 2 PatientGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Metabolic surgery mitigates early kidney injury in obese youth with diabetes by suppressing mTORC1/JAK/STAT signalingThe Journal of clinical investigation · 2026
Summary (written by the submitters)
Background Youth with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and severe obesity face high risk of diabetic kidney disease, which metabolic bariatric surgery (MBS) can mitigate. This study explores structural and molecular changes in kidneys after vertical sleeve gastrectomy (VSG), a form of MBS.
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Methods Paired analyses, including metabolic profiling, kidney volume assessment, histological evaluation, and single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNAseq) on kidney biopsies from five youth with T2D and obesity pre- and 12 months post-VSG in the IMPROVE-T2D (Impact of Metabolic surgery on Pancreatic, Renal and cardiOVascular hEalth in youth with T2D) cohort. Circulating proteomics with kidney transcriptomics, were linked using data from an independent cohort of youth with obesity, with or without T2D, undergoing MBS in Teen-Longitudinal Assessment of Bariatric Surgery (Teen-LABS, n=64). Results Post-VSG, participants lost weight and had improvements in insulin sensitivity and metabolic parameters. Kidney changes included reduced renal hyperfiltration, total kidney volume, mesangial matrix area, and microalbuminuria. scRNAseq in proximal tubule (PT) and thick ascending limb cells indicated repression of glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, and tricarboxylic acid cycle genes, with upregulation of AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) and Forkhead box O3 (FOXO3). Decreased metabolic signaling aligned with reduced ribosomal phosphorylated S6K (pS6K), suggesting attenuated mTORC1 activity. JAK-STAT pathway activation in PT was diminished, correlating with lower circulating ligands from Teen-LABS proteomic data. Conclusion MBS/VSG prompts kidney molecular adaptations, providing potential targets for non-surgical interventions against obesity- and diabetes-associated kidney disease.
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Metabolic surgery mitigates early kidney injury in obese youth with diabetes by suppressing mTORC1/JAK/STAT signaling
Naik AS, Alakwaa FM, Nair V et al. · The Journal of clinical investigation 2026 · PMID 41665972 · doi:10.1172/JCI198545
This dataset
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Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE315877_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: Single-cell studies usually ship their counts as 10x files (matrix.mtx, barcodes.tsv, features.tsv), an .h5 file, or an .rds / .h5ad object that Seurat or Scanpy can open. Look for those among the supplementary files.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1399477. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
6 × Healthy control vs 5 × Biol rep 1 Patient vs 5 × Biol rep 2 Patient

Supports a case/control comparison: 10 samples read as cases, 6 as controls.

How we read this: 3 replicated groups read from 16 sample titles; they account for 16 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

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