Cellular senescence in ageing: from mechanisms to therapeutic opportunities

R Di Micco, V Krizhanovsky, D Baker… - … reviews Molecular cell …, 2021 - nature.com
Cellular senescence, first described in vitro in 1961, has become a focus for biotech
companies that target it to ameliorate a variety of human conditions. Eminently characterized …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

[HTML][HTML] Epigenetics of aging and aging-associated diseases

D Saul, RL Kosinsky - International journal of molecular sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Aging represents the multifactorial decline in physiological function of every living organism.
Over the past decades, several hallmarks of aging have been defined, including epigenetic …

A genome-wide CRISPR-based screen identifies KAT7 as a driver of cellular senescence

W Wang, Y Zheng, S Sun, W Li, M Song, Q Ji… - Science translational …, 2021 - science.org
Understanding the genetic and epigenetic bases of cellular senescence is instrumental in
developing interventions to slow aging. We performed genome-wide CRISPR-Cas9–based …

[HTML][HTML] Acetyl-CoA metabolism and histone acetylation in the regulation of aging and lifespan

PC Bradshaw - Antioxidants, 2021 - mdpi.com
Acetyl-CoA is a metabolite at the crossroads of central metabolism and the substrate of
histone acetyltransferases regulating gene expression. In many tissues fasting or lifespan …

[HTML][HTML] Co-condensation between transcription factor and coactivator p300 modulates transcriptional bursting kinetics

L Ma, Z Gao, J Wu, B Zhong, Y Xie, W Huang, Y Lin - Molecular cell, 2021 - cell.com
The coactivator p300/CREB-binding protein (CBP) regulates genes by facilitating the
assembly of transcriptional machinery and by acetylating histones and other factors …

CDK4/6 inhibition reprograms the breast cancer enhancer landscape by stimulating AP-1 transcriptional activity

AC Watt, P Cejas, MJ DeCristo, O Metzger-Filho… - Nature Cancer, 2021 - nature.com
Pharmacologic inhibitors of cyclin-dependent kinases 4 and 6 (CDK4/6) were designed to
induce cancer cell cycle arrest. Recent studies have suggested that these agents also exert …

[HTML][HTML] HDAC4 degradation during senescence unleashes an epigenetic program driven by AP-1/p300 at selected enhancers and super-enhancers

E Di Giorgio, H Paluvai, E Dalla, L Ranzino, A Renzini… - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
Background Cellular senescence is a permanent state of replicative arrest defined by a
specific pattern of gene expression. The epigenome in senescent cells is sculptured in order …

ATF3 drives senescence by reconstructing accessible chromatin profiles

C Zhang, X Zhang, L Huang, Y Guan, X Huang… - Aging …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Chromatin organization and transcriptional profiles undergo tremendous reordering during
senescence. However, uncovering the regulatory mechanisms between chromatin …

[HTML][HTML] The aging proteostasis decline: From nematode to human

A Meller, R Shalgi - Experimental cell research, 2021 - Elsevier
The aging proteostasis decline manifests in a failure of aging cells and organisms to
properly respond to proteotoxic challenges. This proteostasis collapse has long been …