Genome-wide RNA polymerase stalling shapes the transcriptome during aging

A Gyenis, J Chang, JJPG Demmers, ST Bruens… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Gene expression profiling has identified numerous processes altered in aging, but how
these changes arise is largely unknown. Here we combined nascent RNA sequencing and …

The central role of DNA damage in the ageing process

B Schumacher, J Pothof, J Vijg, JHJ Hoeijmakers - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
Ageing is a complex, multifaceted process leading to widespread functional decline that
affects every organ and tissue, but it remains unknown whether ageing has a unifying causal …

Persistent transcription-blocking DNA lesions trigger somatic growth attenuation associated with longevity

GA Garinis, LM Uittenboogaard, H Stachelscheid… - Nature cell …, 2009 - nature.com
The accumulation of stochastic DNA damage throughout an organism's lifespan is thought to
contribute to ageing. Conversely, ageing seems to be phenotypically reproducible and …

Genome maintenance and transcription integrity in aging and disease

S Wolters, B Schumacher - Frontiers in genetics, 2013 - frontiersin.org
DNA damage contributes to cancer development and aging. Congenital syndromes that
affect DNA repair processes are characterized by cancer susceptibility, developmental …

The ageing epigenome: damaged beyond repair?

DA Sinclair, P Oberdoerffer - Ageing research reviews, 2009 - Elsevier
Of all the proposed causes of ageing, DNA damage remains a leading, though still debated
theory. Unlike most other types of age-related cellular damage, which can hypothetically be …

Ageing-associated changes in transcriptional elongation influence longevity

C Debès, A Papadakis, S Grönke, Ö Karalay, LS Tain… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Physiological homeostasis becomes compromised during ageing, as a result of impairment
of cellular processes, including transcription and RNA splicing,,–. However, the molecular …

Comprehensive transcriptional landscape of aging mouse liver

RR White, B Milholland, SL MacRae, M Lin, D Zheng… - BMC genomics, 2015 - Springer
Background Mammalian aging is a highly complex process, a full mechanistic
understanding of which is still lacking. One way to help understand the molecular changes …

The aging epigenome

LN Booth, A Brunet - Molecular cell, 2016 - cell.com
During aging, the mechanisms that normally maintain health and stress resistance strikingly
decline, resulting in decrepitude, frailty, and ultimately death. Exactly when and how this …

Aging is associated with a systemic length-associated transcriptome imbalance

T Stoeger, RA Grant, AC McQuattie-Pimentel… - Nature Aging, 2022 - nature.com
Aging is among the most important risk factors for morbidity and mortality. To contribute
toward a molecular understanding of aging, we analyzed age-resolved transcriptomic data …

Transcriptional signatures of aging

R Stegeman, VM Weake - Journal of molecular biology, 2017 - Elsevier
Genome-wide studies of aging have identified subsets of genes that show age-related
changes in expression. Although the types of genes that are age regulated vary among …