FUT1 and chronic kidney disease: To explore the role of FUT1-mediated terminal fucosylation in chronic kidney diseases (CKD), especially in renal fibrosis, we first analyzed the expression of FUT1 based on public microarray datasets (GSE174020, GSE7392 and GSE66494) and found that FUT1 expression was higher in CKD patients compared to healthy people (Fig. 1A).