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Glomerulosclerosis was recently reported in DD1 patients and ClC-5 protein was shown to be expressed in human podocytes. Nephrin and actin cytoskeleton play a key role for podocyte functions and podocyte endocytosis seems to be crucial for slit diaphragm regulation. The aim of this study was to analyze whether ClC-5 loss in podocytes might be a direct consequence of the glomerular damage in DD1 patients. Three DD1 kidney biopsies presenting focal global glomerulosclerosis and four control biopsies were analyzed by immunofluorescence (IF) for nephrin and podocalyxin, and by immunohistochemistry (IHC) for ClC-5. ClC-5 resulted as down-regulated in DD1 vs. control (CTRL) biopsies in both tubular and glomerular compartments (p &lt; 0.01). A significant down-regulation of nephrin (p &lt; 0.01) in DD1 vs. CTRL was demonstrated. CRISPR\/Cas9 (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats\/Caspase9) gene editing of CLCN5 in conditionally immortalized human podocytes was used to obtain clones with the stop codon mutation p.(R34Efs*14). We showed that ClC-5 and nephrin expression, analyzed by quantitative Reverse Transcription\/Polymerase Chain Reaction (qRT\/PCR) and In-Cell Western (ICW), was significantly downregulated in mutant clones compared to the wild type ones. In addition, F-actin staining with fluorescent phalloidin revealed actin derangements. 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