Katharina Hopp, PhD

Recognitions

• Dr. Vincent H. Gattone Research Award, Polycystic Polycystic Disease Foundation (2018)
• Outstanding Research Fellow Award, Mayo Clinic Department of Medicine (2014)

Research Interests

Dr. Katharina Hopp obtained her Ph.D. in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology with a focus on Polycystic Kidney Disease (PKD) genetics in 2012 from the Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota. She continued her research in PKD as a post-doctoral fellow at the Mayo Clinic Translational PKD Center. Currently, Dr. Hopp is as Assistant Professor at the University of Colorado, Denver, Anschutz Medical Campus, where her lab studies the functional role of immune cells on PKD progression. Specifically, her lab researches the role of T cells in PKD, their interplay with other immune cells and the cystic epithelium, and their impact on cyst initiation and progression. She believes that these studies will provide novel insights into the pathomechanisms of disease/disease heterogeneity, and give rise to new therapeutic approaches.

Publications

• Warner G, Hein KZ, Nin V, Edwards M, Chini CC, Hopp K, Harris PC, Torres VE, Chini EN. Food Restriction Ameliorates the Development of Polycystic Kidney Disease. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Nov 4. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26538633
• Ye H, Wang X, Sussman CR, Hopp K, Irazabal MV, Bakeberg JL, LaRiviere WB, Manganiello VC, Voorhees CV, Zhao H, Harris PC, van Deursen J, Ward CJ, Torres VE. Modulation of Polycystic Kidney Disease Severity by Phosphodiesterase 1 and 3 Subfamilies. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Sep 15. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 26374610
• Kline TL, Irazabal MV, Ebrahimi B, Hopp K, Udoji KN, Warner JD, Korfiatis P, Mishra PK, Macura SI, Venkatesh SK, Lerman LO, Harris PC, Torres VE, King BF, Erickson BJ. Utilizing magnetization transfer imaging to investigate tissue remodeling in a murine model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Magn Reson Med. 2015 May 13. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 25974140
• Hopp K, Cogal AG, Bergstralh EJ, Seide BM, Olson JB, Meek AM, Lieske JC, Milliner DS, Harris PC. Phenotype-Genotype Correlations and Estimated Carrier Frequencies of Primary Hyperoxaluria. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Oct;26(10):2559-70. PubMed PMID: 25644115
• Gainullin VG, Hopp K, Ward CJ, Hommerding CJ, Harris PC. Polycystin-1 maturation requires polycystin-2 in a dose-dependent manner. J Clin Invest. 2015 Feb;125(2):607-20. PubMed PMID: 25574838
• Hopp K, Wang X, Ye H, Irazabal MV, Harris PC, Torres VE. Effects of hydration in rats and mice with polycystic kidney disease. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2015 Feb 1;308(3):F261-6. PubMed PMID: 25503729
• Hopp K. Improving HNF1ß mutation detection rates: can a weighted score of clinical and familial characteristics help?. Kidney Int. 2014 Nov;86(5):882-4. PubMed PMID: 25360493
• Hopp K, Hommerding CJ, Wang X, Ye H, Harris PC, Torres VE. Tolvaptan plus pasireotide shows enhanced efficacy in a PKD1 model. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2015 Jan;26(1):39-47. PubMed PMID: 24994926
• Paul BM, Consugar MB, Ryan Lee M, Sundsbak JL, Heyer CM, Rossetti S, Kubly VJ, Hopp K, Torres VE, Coto E, Clementi M, Bogdanova N, de Almeida E, Bichet DG, Harris PC. Evidence of a third ADPKD locus is not supported by re-analysis of designated PKD3 families. Kidney Int. 2014 Feb;85(2):383-92. PubMed PMID: 23760289
• Lieske JC, Milliner DS, Beara-Lasic L, Harris P, Hopp K, Cogal A, Mattison K. Dent Disease. . 1993. PubMed PMID: 22876375
• Rossetti S, Kubly VJ, Consugar MB, Hopp K, Roy S, Horsley SW, Chauveau D, Rees L, Barratt TM, van't Hoff WG, Niaudet P, Torres VE, Harris PC. Incompletely penetrant PKD1 alleles suggest a role for gene dosage in cyst initiation in polycystic kidney disease. Kidney Int. 2009 Apr;75(8):848-55. PubMed PMID: 19165178
• Vujic M, Heyer CM, Ars E, Hopp K, Markoff A, Orndal C, Rudenhed B, Nasr SH, Torres VE, Torra R, Bogdanova N, Harris PC. Incompletely penetrant PKD1 alleles mimic the renal manifestations of ARPKD. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2010 Jul;21(7):1097-102. PubMed PMID: 20558538
• Hopp K, Heyer CM, Hommerding CJ, Henke SA, Sundsbak JL, Patel S, Patel P, Consugar MB, Czarnecki PG, Gliem TJ, Torres VE, Rossetti S, Harris PC. B9D1 is revealed as a novel Meckel syndrome (MKS) gene by targeted exon-enriched next-generation sequencing and deletion analysis. Hum Mol Genet. 2011 Jul 1;20(13):2524-34. PubMed PMID: 21493627
• Rossetti S, Hopp K, Sikkink RA, Sundsbak JL, Lee YK, Kubly V, Eckloff BW, Ward CJ, Winearls CG, Torres VE, Harris PC. Identification of gene mutations in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease through targeted resequencing. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2012 May;23(5):915-33. PubMed PMID: 22383692
• Hopp K, Ward CJ, Hommerding CJ, Nasr SH, Tuan HF, Gainullin VG, Rossetti S, Torres VE, Harris PC. Functional polycystin-1 dosage governs autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease severity. J Clin Invest. 2012 Nov;122(11):4257-73. PubMed PMID: 23064367
• Harris PC, Hopp K. The mutation, a key determinant of phenotype in ADPKD. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2013 May;24(6):868-70. PubMed PMID: 23687354
• Kleczko EK, Marsh KH, Tyler LC, Furgeson SB, Bullock BL, Altmann CJ, Miyazaki M, Gitomer BY, Harris PC, Weiser-Evans MCM, Chonchol MB, Clambey ET, Nemenoff RA, Hopp K. CD8( ) T cells modulate autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease progression. Kidney Int. 2018 Dec;94(6):1127-1140. PubMed PMID: 30249452
• Boczek NJ, Hopp K, Benoit L, Kraft D, Cousin MA, Blackburn PR, Madsen CD, Oliver GR, Nair AA, Na J, Bianchi DW, Beek G, Harris PC, Pichurin P, Klee EW. Characterization of three ciliopathy pedigrees expands the phenotype associated with biallelic C2CD3 variants. Eur J Hum Genet. 2018 Dec;26(12):1797-1809. PubMed PMID: 30097616
• Cornec-Le Gall E, Olson RJ, Besse W, Heyer CM, Gainullin VG, Smith JM, Audrézet MP, Hopp K, Porath B, Shi B, Baheti S, Senum SR, Arroyo J, Madsen CD, Férec C, Joly D, Jouret F, Fikri-Benbrahim O, Charasse C, Coulibaly JM, Yu AS, Khalili K, Pei Y, Somlo S, Le Meur Y, Torres VE, Harris PC. Monoallelic Mutations to DNAJB11 Cause Atypical Autosomal-Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. Am J Hum Genet. 2018 May 3;102(5):832-844. PubMed PMID: 29706351
• Hopp K, Cornec-Le Gall E, Senum SR, Te Paske IBAW, Raj S, Lavu S, Baheti S, Edwards ME, Madsen CD, Heyer CM, Ong ACM, Bae KT, Fatica R, Steinman TI, Chapman AB, Gitomer B, Perrone RD, Rahbari-Oskoui FF, Torres VE, Harris PC. Detection and characterization of mosaicism in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Kidney Int. 2019 Oct 9. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31874800
• Holditch SJ, Brown CN, Atwood DJ, Pokhrel D, Brown SE, Lombardi AM, Nguyen KN, Hill RC, Lanaspa M, Hopp K, Weiser-Evans MCM, Edelstein CL. The consequences of increased 4E-BP1 in polycystic kidney disease. Hum Mol Genet. 2019 Oct 19. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 31646342
• Gewin LS, Summers ME, Harral JW, Gaskill CF, Khodo SN, Neelisetty S, Sullivan TM, Hopp K, Reese JJ, Klemm DJ, Kon V, Ess KC, Shi W, Majka SM. Inactivation of Tsc2 in Abcg2 lineage-derived cells drives the appearance of polycystic lesions and fibrosis in the adult kidney. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2019 Nov 1;317(5):F1201-F1210. PubMed PMID: 31461347
• Olson RJ, Hopp K, Wells H, Smith JM, Furtado J, Constans MM, Escobar DL, Geurts AM, Torres VE, Harris PC. Synergistic Genetic Interactions between Pkhd1 and Pkd1 Result in an ARPKD-Like Phenotype in Murine Models. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2019 Nov;30(11):2113-2127. PubMed PMID: 31427367
• Bullock BL, Kimball AK, Poczobutt JM, Neuwelt AJ, Li HY, Johnson AM, Kwak JW, Kleczko EK, Kaspar RE, Wagner EK, Hopp K, Schenk EL, Weiser-Evans MC, Clambey ET, Nemenoff RA. Tumor-intrinsic response to IFN? shapes the tumor microenvironment and anti-PD-1 response in NSCLC. Life Sci Alliance. 2019 Jun;2(3). PubMed PMID: 31133614
• Holditch SJ, Brown CN, Atwood DJ, Lombardi AM, Nguyen KN, Toll HW, Hopp K, Edelstein CL. A study of sirolimus and mTOR kinase inhibitor in a hypomorphic Pkd1 mouse model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2019 Jul 1;317(1):F187-F196. PubMed PMID: 31042058
• Montford JR, Bauer C, Dobrinskikh E, Hopp K, Levi M, Weiser-Evans M, Nemenoff R, Furgeson SB. Inhibition of 5-lipoxygenase decreases renal fibrosis and progression of chronic kidney disease. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2019 Apr 1;316(4):F732-F742. PubMed PMID: 30649890
• Atwood DJ, Brown CN, Holditch SJ, Pokhrel D, Thorburn A, Hopp K, Edelstein CL. The effect of trehalose on autophagy-related proteins and cyst growth in a hypomorphic Pkd1 mouse model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Cell Signal. 2020 Nov;75:109760. PubMed PMID: 32866627
• Atwood DJ, Pokhrel D, Brown CN, Holditch SJ, Bachu DM, Thorburn A, Hopp K, Edelstein CL. Increased mTOR and suppressed autophagic flux in the heart of a hypomorphic Pkd1 mouse model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Cell Signal. 2020 Oct;74:109730. PubMed PMID: 32730856
• Zimmerman KA, Hopp K, Mrug M. Role of chemokines, innate and adaptive immunity. Cell Signal. 2020 Sep;73:109647. PubMed PMID: 32325183
• Johnson AM, Bullock BL, Neuwelt AJ, Poczobutt JM, Kaspar RE, Li HY, Kwak JW, Hopp K, Weiser-Evans MCM, Heasley LE, Schenk EL, Clambey ET, Nemenoff RA. Cancer Cell-Intrinsic Expression of MHC Class II Regulates the Immune Microenvironment and Response to Anti-PD-1 Therapy in Lung Adenocarcinoma. J Immunol. 2020 Apr 15;204(8):2295-2307. PubMed PMID: 32179637
• Nowak KL, Hopp K. Metabolic Reprogramming in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease: Evidence and Therapeutic Potential. Clin J Am Soc Nephrol. 2020 Apr 7;15(4):577-584. PubMed PMID: 32086281
• Hopp K, Cornec-Le Gall E, Senum SR, Te Paske IBAW, Raj S, Lavu S, Baheti S, Edwards ME, Madsen CD, Heyer CM, Ong ACM, Bae KT, Fatica R, Steinman TI, Chapman AB, Gitomer B, Perrone RD, Rahbari-Oskoui FF, Torres VE, Harris PC. Detection and characterization of mosaicism in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Kidney Int. 2020 Feb;97(2):370-382. PubMed PMID: 31874800
• Baliga MM, Klawitter J, Christians U, Hopp K, Chonchol M, Gitomer BY, Cadnapaphornchai MA, Klawitter J. Metabolic profiling in children and young adults with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Sci Rep. 2021 Mar 23;11(1):6629. PubMed PMID: 33758231
• Arroyo J, Escobar-Zarate D, Wells HH, Constans MM, Thao K, Smith JM, Sieben CJ, Martell MR, Kline TL, Irazabal MV, Torres VE, Hopp K, Harris PC. The genetic background significantly impacts the severity of kidney cystic disease in the Pkd1(RC/RC) mouse model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Kidney Int. 2021 Mar 8. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 33705824
• Nemenoff RA, Kleczko EK, Hopp K. Renal double negative T cells: unconventional cells in search of a function. Ann Transl Med. 2019 Dec;7(Suppl 8):S342. PubMed PMID: 32016060
• Heyer CM, Sundsbak JL, Abebe KZ, Chapman AB, Torres VE, Grantham JJ, Bae KT, Schrier RW, Perrone RD, Braun WE, Steinman TI, Mrug M, Yu AS, Brosnahan G, Hopp K, Irazabal MV, Bennett WM, Flessner MF, Moore CG, Landsittel D, Harris PC. Predicted Mutation Strength of Nontruncating PKD1 Mutations Aids Genotype-Phenotype Correlations in Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2016 Sep;27(9):2872-84. PubMed PMID: 26823553
• Porath B, Gainullin VG, Cornec-Le Gall E, Dillinger EK, Heyer CM, Hopp K, Edwards ME, Madsen CD, Mauritz SR, Banks CJ, Baheti S, Reddy B, Herrero JI, Bañales JM, Hogan MC, Tasic V, Watnick TJ, Chapman AB, Vigneau C, Lavainne F, Audrézet MP, Ferec C, Le Meur Y, Torres VE, Harris PC. Mutations in GANAB, Encoding the Glucosidase IIa Subunit, Cause Autosomal-Dominant Polycystic Kidney and Liver Disease. Am J Hum Genet. 2016 Jun 2;98(6):1193-1207. PubMed PMID: 27259053
• Johnson AM, Boland JM, Wrobel J, Klezcko EK, Weiser-Evans M, Hopp K, Heasley L, Clambey ET, Jordan K, Nemenoff RA, Schenk EL. Cancer Cell-Specific Major Histocompatibility Complex II Expression as a Determinant of the Immune Infiltrate Organization and Function in the NSCLC Tumor Microenvironment. J Thorac Oncol. 2021 Oct;16(10):1694-1704. PubMed PMID: 34048945
• Baliga MM, Klawitter J, Christians U, Hopp K, Chonchol M, Gitomer BY, Cadnapaphornchai MA, Klawitter J. Metabolic profiling in children and young adults with autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Sci Rep. 2021 Mar 23;11(1):6629. PubMed PMID: 33758231
• Arroyo J, Escobar-Zarate D, Wells HH, Constans MM, Thao K, Smith JM, Sieben CJ, Martell MR, Kline TL, Irazabal MV, Torres VE, Hopp K, Harris PC. The genetic background significantly impacts the severity of kidney cystic disease in the Pkd1(RC/RC) mouse model of autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. Kidney Int. 2021 Jun;99(6):1392-1407. PubMed PMID: 33705824
• Nguyen DT, Kleczko EK, Dwivedi N, Monaghan MT, Gitomer BY, Chonchol MB, Clambey ET, Nemenoff RA, Klawitter J, Hopp K. The tryptophan-metabolizing enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 regulates polycystic kidney disease progression. JCI Insight. 2023 Jan 10;8(1). PubMed PMID: 36422996
• Klawitter J, Jackson MJ, Smith PH, Hopp K, Chonchol M, Gitomer BY, Cadnapaphornchai MA, Christians U, Klawitter J. Kynurenines in polycystic kidney disease. J Nephrol. 2022 Jul 22. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 35867237
• Meena P, Hopp K. The Enigma of Clinical Heterogeneity Among Autosomal Recessive Polycystic Kidney Disease Siblings: PKHD1 Genotype Versus Other Genomic or Environmental Modifier. Kidney Int Rep. 2022 Jul;7(7):1453-1455. PubMed PMID: 35812282
• Klawitter J, Sempio C, Jackson MJ, Smith PH, Hopp K, Chonchol M, Gitomer BY, Christians U, Klawitter J. Endocannabinoid System in Polycystic Kidney Disease. Am J Nephrol. 2022;53(4):264-272. PubMed PMID: 35263737
• Song CJ, Li Z, Ahmed UKB, Bland SJ, Yashchenko A, Liu S, Aloria EJ, Lever JM, Gonzalez NM, Bickel MA, Giles CB, Georgescu C, Wren JD, Lang ML, Benveniste EN, Harrington LE, Tsiokas L, George JF, Jones KL, Crossman DK, Agarwal A, Mrug M, Yoder BK, Hopp K, Zimmerman KA. A Comprehensive Immune Cell Atlas of Cystic Kidney Disease Reveals the Involvement of Adaptive Immune Cells in Injury-Mediated Cyst Progression in Mice. J Am Soc Nephrol. 2022 Apr;33(4):747-768. PubMed PMID: 35110364
• Hopp K, Catenacci VA, Dwivedi N, Kline TL, Wang W, You Z, Nguyen DT, Bing K, Poudyal B, Johnson GC, Jackman MR, Miller M, Steele CN, Serkova NJ, MacLean PS, Nemenoff RA, Gitomer B, Chonchol M, Nowak KL. Weight loss and cystic disease progression in autosomal dominant polycystic kidney disease. iScience. 2022 Jan 21;25(1):103697. PubMed PMID: 35059607
• Hopp K, Kleczko EK, Gitomer BY, Chonchol M, Klawitter J, Christians U, Klawitter J. Metabolic reprogramming in a slowly developing orthologous model of polycystic kidney disease. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2022 Mar 1;322(3):F258-F267. PubMed PMID: 35037466
• Montford JR, Bauer C, Rahkola J, Reisz JA, Floyd D, Hopp K, Soranno DE, Klawitter J, Weiser-Evans MCM, Nemenoff R, Faubel S, Furgeson SB. 15-Lipoxygenase worsens renal fibrosis, inflammation, and metabolism in a murine model of ureteral obstruction. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2022 Jan 1;322(1):F105-F119. PubMed PMID: 34866403
• Kleczko EK, Nguyen DT, Marsh KH, Bauer CD, Li AS, Monaghan MT, Berger MD, Furgeson SB, Gitomer BY, Chonchol MB, Clambey ET, Zimmerman KA, Nemenoff RA, Hopp K. Immune checkpoint activity regulates polycystic kidney disease progression. JCI Insight. 2023 Jun 22;8(12). PubMed PMID: 37345660
• Yashchenko A, Bland SJ, Song CJ, Ahmed UKB, Sharp R, Darby IG, Cordova AM, Smith ME, Lever JM, Li Z, Aloria EJ, Khan S, Maryam B, Liu S, Crowley MR, Jones KL, Zenewicz LA, George JF, Mrug M, Crossman DK, Hopp K, Stavrakis S, Humphrey MB, Ginhoux F, Zimmerman KA. Cx3cr1 controls kidney resident macrophage heterogeneity. Front Immunol. 2023;14:1082078. PubMed PMID: 37256130
• Kleczko EK, Poczobutt JM, Navarro AC, Laskowski J, Johnson AM, Korpela SP, Gurule NJ, Heasley LE, Hopp K, Weiser-Evans MCM, Gottlin EB, Bushey RT, Campa MJ, Patz EF Jr, Thurman JM, Nemenoff RA. Upregulation of complement proteins in lung cancer cells mediates tumor progression. Front Oncol. 2022;12:1045690. PubMed PMID: 36686777
• Nguyen DT, Kleczko EK, Dwivedi N, Monaghan MT, Gitomer BY, Chonchol MB, Clambey ET, Nemenoff RA, Klawitter J, Hopp K. The tryptophan-metabolizing enzyme indoleamine 2,3-dioxygenase 1 regulates polycystic kidney disease progression. JCI Insight. 2023 Jan 10;8(1). PubMed PMID: 36422996
• Klawitter J, Jackson MJ, Smith PH, Hopp K, Chonchol M, Gitomer BY, Cadnapaphornchai MA, Christians U, Klawitter J. Kynurenines in polycystic kidney disease. J Nephrol. 2023 Jan;36(1):83-91. PubMed PMID: 35867237

Professional Memberships

• American Society of Nephrology, Member
• International Society of Nephrology, Member
• American Heart Association, Member

Practice Locations

UCHealth Anschutz Outpatient Pavilion - Anschutz Medical Campus
1635 Aurora Ct
Aurora, CO 80045
720-848-0000

Center Affiliations

• Colorado Clinical & Translational Sciences Institute (CCTSI)

Specialty Information

Specialties

• Nephrology