Mitochondria as playmakers of apoptosis, autophagy and senescence

M Abate, A Festa, M Falco, A Lombardi, A Luce… - Seminars in cell & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Mitochondria are the key energy-producing organelles and cellular source of reactive
species. They are responsible for managing cell life and death by a balanced homeostasis …

Sirtuins, cell senescence, and vascular aging

Y Kida, MS Goligorsky - Canadian Journal of Cardiology, 2016 - Elsevier
The sirtuins (SIRTs) constitute a class of proteins with nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide-
dependent deacetylase or adenosine diphosphate-ribosyltransferase activity. Seven SIRT …

Small molecule compounds that induce cellular senescence

NV Petrova, AK Velichko, SV Razin, OL Kantidze - Aging Cell, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
To date, dozens of stress‐induced cellular senescence phenotypes have been reported.
These cellular senescence states may differ substantially from each other, as well as from …

Understanding chronic wounds: a unifying hypothesis on their pathogenesis and implications for therapy

T Mustoe - The American Journal of Surgery, 2004 - Elsevier
The development of new therapies for treatment of chronic wounds has not matched the
availability of treatment modalities forecast by the pharmaceutical industry. This is …

Nuclear cGAS restricts L1 retrotransposition by promoting TRIM41-mediated ORF2p ubiquitination and degradation

Z Zhen, Y Chen, H Wang, H Tang, H Zhang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Abstract Cyclic GMP–AMP synthase (cGAS), initially identified as a cytosolic DNA sensor,
detects DNA fragments to trigger an innate immune response. Recently, accumulating …

Sirt1 modulates premature senescence-like phenotype in human endothelial cells

H Ota, M Akishita, M Eto, K Iijima, M Kaneki… - Journal of molecular and …, 2007 - Elsevier
Yeast Sir2 plays critical roles in gene silencing, stress resistance and longevity. Mammalian
Sirt1 NAD+-dependent protein deacetylase, the closest homolog of Sir2, regulates cell cycle …

Human cell senescence as a DNA damage response

T Von Zglinicki, G Saretzki, J Ladhoff… - Mechanisms of ageing …, 2005 - Elsevier
It has been established that telomere-dependent replicative senescence of human
fibroblasts is stress-dependent. First, it was shown that telomere shortening, which is a major …

When cells get stressed: an integrative view of cellular senescence

I Ben-Porath, RA Weinberg - The Journal of clinical …, 2004 - Am Soc Clin Investig
Cells entering a state of senescence undergo a permanent cell cycle arrest, accompanied
by a set of functional and morphological changes. Senescence of cells occurs following an …

AKT induces senescence in human cells via mTORC1 and p53 in the absence of DNA damage: implications for targeting mTOR during malignancy

MV Astle, KM Hannan, PY Ng, RS Lee, AJ George… - Oncogene, 2012 - nature.com
Abstract The phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase (PI3K)/AKT and RAS oncogenic signalling
modules are frequently mutated in sporadic human cancer. Although each of these …

Senescence, apoptosis or autophagy? When a damaged cell must decide its path–a mini-review

JM Vicencio, L Galluzzi, N Tajeddine, C Ortiz, A Criollo… - Gerontology, 2008 - karger.com
Many features of aging result from the incapacity of cells to adapt to stress conditions. When
damage accumulates irreversibly, mitotic cells from renewable tissues rely on either of two …