Note: Protecting the aging genome

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Note: Protecting the aging genome

doi: 10.1016/j.tcb.2019.12.001


Three main layers protect the accumulation of DNA damage

  • Reducing damaging molecules (antioxidant)

  • Repairing DNA damage

  • Inducing senescence/apoptosis to response to persistent DNA damage

The end of this paper -- help to propose novel interventions which increase healthspan!!


DNA repair is quite conserved and important for living organisms as stated above.


Markers of DNA damage - observe in age-associated disease


Obvious evident -- ppl who has defective in DNA repair -- show features of premature or accelerated aging


Defect in different pw --aging features in different tissues;

  • Cockayne syndrome, ataxia-telangiectasia -- premature neurological aging

  • Werner syndrome, Hutchinson-Gilford progeria -- cardiovascular aging


>50 DNA repair disorders described with various degrees of overlapping phenotypes with aging -- > suggest different types of DNA damage -- > different pathologies in aging


Most common oxidative DNA lesion -- mutagenic 8-oxoguanine -- > accumulate in several tissues with age


ss and db strand DNA break -- activates  PARP1 -- activity of this enzyme increase with age -- >strand break accumulate in elderly


DSB markers; 53BP1 and gH2AX -- increased with age across multiple tissues and in senescent cells








Consequences if DNA is left unrepaired

Three outcomes; but altered with age

  1. Cell transform and become cancerous

  2. Entering non proliferating state (senescence)

  3. Die through apoptosis


Cell death

Apoptosis

  • With age, apoptotic activity changes

  • Heart, kidney, skeletal muscle, and T cell

    • Increased apoptosis -- contributing to loss of cellularity (causing increased production of free radicals) but it helps to prevent the accumulation of mutation in DNA 

  • Colon

    • Apoptosis -- decrease with age

Parthanatos

  • DNA damage is central to its initiation

  • Activation of DNA damage responder PARP1 -- formation PAR polymers -- activation of apoptosis -inducing factor + caspase-independent cell death












































































































































Cell senescence

If a cell invades death on DNA damage -- > usually cells enter senescences. Several ways to induce senescence;

  • Replicative senescence in somatic cells

  • Oncogene-induced senescence

  • Excessive DNA damage

Younger age -- senescence helps

  • Tumor suppression

  • Wound healing

  • Tissue development

Drugs that clear the senescence cells ~ senescences have been believed to cause chronic diseases (senescence cells ~ so many accumulated mutations)


Future perspectives ~ development interventions through DNA repair

Few molecules - may directly stimulate DNA repair

  • RAD51-stimulatory compound 1 (RS-1) -- increase HR

  • Nicorandil -- stimulate base excision repair through APE1 enzyme

  • Aspirin - -- stimulate NER


Modulation of DNA damage response -- impact aging

  • Inhibition of PARP1 -- lifespan extension in certain model organisms

  • Age-associated activation of PARP1 -- relate to persistent DNA damage foci -- 53BP1, gH2AX, FOXO4 in aging cells


Keys

  • NAD+:NADH ratio

  • Energy sensor (AMP-AMPK)


Outstanding questions --

A large gap between biochemistry and clinical phenotypes

  • Much information in mechanistic but could not well-explain clinical outcomes

(I think a major problem is the ecosystem to support communication between clinicians and researchers).


Do small-molecules DNA repair stimulators attenuate aging?

Does decreasing DNA repair efficacy explain variability in aging phenotypes?

  • DNA repair declined with age

    • No clear connection between tissue specific vs DNA repair efficacy decline

    • No clear connection between age-associated phenotypes vs DNA repair efficacy decline

How the heck can we measure DNA repair stimulators at a clinical level? -- > functional markers, I think






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