Aging and aging-related diseases: from molecular mechanisms to interventions and treatments

J Guo, X Huang, L Dou, M Yan, T Shen… - Signal Transduction and …, 2022 - nature.com
Aging is a gradual and irreversible pathophysiological process. It presents with declines in
tissue and cell functions and significant increases in the risks of various aging-related …

Biomolecular condensates at the nexus of cellular stress, protein aggregation disease and ageing

S Alberti, AA Hyman - Nature reviews Molecular cell biology, 2021 - nature.com
Biomolecular condensates are membraneless intracellular assemblies that often form via
liquid− liquid phase separation and have the ability to concentrate biopolymers. Research …

[PDF][PDF] Loss of epigenetic information as a cause of mammalian aging

JH Yang, M Hayano, PT Griffin, JA Amorim… - Cell, 2023 - cell.com
All living things experience an increase in entropy, manifested as a loss of genetic and
epigenetic information. In yeast, epigenetic information is lost over time due to the …

Reprogramming to recover youthful epigenetic information and restore vision

Y Lu, B Brommer, X Tian, A Krishnan, M Meer, C Wang… - Nature, 2020 - nature.com
Ageing is a degenerative process that leads to tissue dysfunction and death. A proposed
cause of ageing is the accumulation of epigenetic noise that disrupts gene expression …

The role of retrotransposable elements in ageing and age-associated diseases

V Gorbunova, A Seluanov, P Mita, W McKerrow… - Nature, 2021 - nature.com
The genomes of virtually all organisms contain repetitive sequences that are generated by
the activity of transposable elements (transposons). Transposons are mobile genetic …

[PDF][PDF] Benefits of metformin in attenuating the hallmarks of aging

AS Kulkarni, S Gubbi, N Barzilai - Cell metabolism, 2020 - cell.com
Biological aging involves an interplay of conserved and targetable molecular mechanisms,
summarized as the hallmarks of aging. Metformin, a biguanide that combats age-related …

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 role of histone modifications: from neurodevelopment to neurodiseases

J Park, K Lee, K Kim, SJ Yi - Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Epigenetic regulatory mechanisms, including DNA methylation, histone modification,
chromatin remodeling, and microRNA expression, play critical roles in cell differentiation …

Inflammation, epigenetics, and metabolism converge to cell senescence and ageing: the regulation and intervention

X Zhu, Z Chen, W Shen, G Huang, JM Sedivy… - Signal transduction and …, 2021 - nature.com
Remarkable progress in ageing research has been achieved over the past decades.
General perceptions and experimental evidence pinpoint that the decline of physical …

Unmasking senescence: context-dependent effects of SASP in cancer

DV Faget, Q Ren, SA Stewart - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2019 - nature.com
Cellular senescence plays a critical role in tumorigenesis. Once thought of as a tissue
culture artefact by some researchers, senescence is now a major field of study. Although …