Life medicinePub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1093/lifemedi/lnac056
S. Arossa, Samhan M. Alsolami, Shannon G. Klein, Yingzi Zhang, G. Ramos-Mandujano, A. Steckbauer, Anieka J Parry, J. C. I. Belmonte, C. Duarte, Mo Li
{"title":"A Gas-only Bioreactor System Maintains Stable Culture Environments and Reveals that Moderate pH deviations Trigger Transcriptome-wide Responses in Human Cells Cultured in Physioxia and Physiological Buffers","authors":"S. Arossa, Samhan M. Alsolami, Shannon G. Klein, Yingzi Zhang, G. Ramos-Mandujano, A. Steckbauer, Anieka J Parry, J. C. I. Belmonte, C. Duarte, Mo Li","doi":"10.1093/lifemedi/lnac056","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnac056","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74073,"journal":{"name":"Life medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47351307","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Life medicinePub Date : 2022-11-22DOI: 10.1093/lifemedi/lnac054
Yusheng Cai, Zhejun Ji, Si Wang, Weiqi Zhang, J. Qu, J. C. I. Belmonte, Guang-Hui Liu
{"title":"Genetic Enhancement: a New Avenue to Combat Aging-related Diseases","authors":"Yusheng Cai, Zhejun Ji, Si Wang, Weiqi Zhang, J. Qu, J. C. I. Belmonte, Guang-Hui Liu","doi":"10.1093/lifemedi/lnac054","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnac054","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Aging is a major risk factor for multiple diseases, including cardiovascular disease, neurodegenerative disorders, osteoarthritis, and cancer. It is accompanied by the dysregulation of stem cells and other differentiated cells, and/or the impairment of their microenvironment. Cell therapies to replenish the abovementioned cells provide a promising approach to restore tissue homeostasis and alleviate aging and aging-related chronic diseases. Importantly, by leveraging gene editing technologies, genetic enhancement, an enhanced strategy for cell therapy, can be developed to improve the safety and efficacy of transplanted therapeutic cells. In this review, we provide an overview and discussion of the current progress in the genetic enhancement field, including genetic modifications of mesenchymal stem cells, neural stem cells, vascular cells, hematopoietic stem cells and T cells to target aging and aging-associated diseases. We also outline questions regarding safety and current limitations that need to be addressed for the continued development of genetic enhancement strategies for cell therapy to enable its further applications in clinical trials to combat aging-related diseases.","PeriodicalId":74073,"journal":{"name":"Life medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45050928","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Potential Effects of the United States Abortion Ruling on Global Embryo/Foetal and Stem Cell Research","authors":"Zhenyu Xiao, Jianwei Lv, Siqi Zhao, Rosario Isasi, Xinwei Xie, Lei Dong, Yaojin Peng","doi":"10.1093/lifemedi/lnac052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnac052","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74073,"journal":{"name":"Life medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43244158","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Life medicinePub Date : 2022-11-14DOI: 10.1093/lifemedi/lnac053
Jiajun Zhang, Jianhua Yin, Yang Heng, Ken Xie, Ao Chen, I. Amit, Xiuwu Bian, XunHua Xu
{"title":"Spatiotemporal Omics-Refining the landscape of precision medicine","authors":"Jiajun Zhang, Jianhua Yin, Yang Heng, Ken Xie, Ao Chen, I. Amit, Xiuwu Bian, XunHua Xu","doi":"10.1093/lifemedi/lnac053","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnac053","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Current streamline of precision medicine uses histomorphological and molecular information to indicate individual phenotypes and genotypes to achieve optimal outcome of treatment. The knowledge of detected mutations and alteration can hardly describe molecular interaction and biological process which can finally be manifested as a disease. With molecular diagnosis revising the modalities of disease, there is a trend in precision medicine to apply multi-omic and multi-dimensional information to decode tumors, regarding heterogeneity, pathogenesis, prognosis, etc. Emerging state-of-art spatiotemporal omics provides a novel vision for in discovering clinicopathogenesis associated findings, some of which show a promising potential to be translated to facilitate clinical practice. Here, we summarize the available spatiotemporal omic technologies and algorithms, highlight the novel scientific findings and explore potential applications in the clinical scenario. Spatiotemporal omics present the ability to provide impetus to rewrite clinical pathology and to answer outstanding clinical questions. This review emphasizes the novel vision of spatiotemporal omics to refine the landscape of precision medicine in the clinic.","PeriodicalId":74073,"journal":{"name":"Life medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45250385","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Life medicinePub Date : 2022-11-11DOI: 10.1093/lifemedi/lnac051
Jiasheng Li, Jimeng Cui, Ye Tian
{"title":"Neuron-periphery mitochondrial stress communication in aging and diseases","authors":"Jiasheng Li, Jimeng Cui, Ye Tian","doi":"10.1093/lifemedi/lnac051","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnac051","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The nervous system is the central hub of the body, detecting environmental and internal stimuli to regulate organismal metabolism via communications to the peripheral tissues. Mitochondria play an essential role in neuronal activity by supplying energy, maintaining cellular metabolism, and buffering calcium levels. A variety of mitochondrial conditions are associated with aging and age-related neurological disorders. Beyond regulating individual neuron cells, mitochondria also coordinate signaling in tissues and organs during stress conditions to mediate systemic metabolism and enable organisms to adapt to such stresses. In addition, peripheral organs and immune cells can also produce signaling molecules to modulate neuronal function. Recent studies have found that mitokines released upon mitochondrial stresses affect metabolism and the physiology of different tissues and organs at a distance. Here, we summarize recent advances in understanding neuron-periphery mitochondrial stress communication and how mitokine signals contribute to the systemic regulation of metabolism and aging with potential implications for therapeutic strategies.","PeriodicalId":74073,"journal":{"name":"Life medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48104697","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Life medicinePub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1093/lifemedi/lnac049
Hong Wang, Chenhao Jiang, Jianye Cai, Qiying Lu, Y. Qiu, Yi Wang, Yinong Huang, Yong Xiao, Boyan Wang, Xiaoyue Wei, Jiahao Shi, Xingqiang Lai, Tao Wang, Jiancheng Wang, A. Xiang
{"title":"Nestin prevents mesenchymal stromal cells from apoptosis in LPS-induced lung injury via inhibition of unfolded protein response sensor IRE1α","authors":"Hong Wang, Chenhao Jiang, Jianye Cai, Qiying Lu, Y. Qiu, Yi Wang, Yinong Huang, Yong Xiao, Boyan Wang, Xiaoyue Wei, Jiahao Shi, Xingqiang Lai, Tao Wang, Jiancheng Wang, A. Xiang","doi":"10.1093/lifemedi/lnac049","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnac049","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The clinical applications of MSC therapy have been intensely investigated in acute respiratory distress syndrome. However, clinical studies have fallen short of expectations despite encouraging preclinical results. One of the key problems is that transplanted stem cells can hardly survive in the harsh inflammatory environment. Prolonging the survival of transplanted MSCs might be a promising strategy to enhance the therapeutic efficacy of MSC therapy. Here, we identified Nestin, a class VI intermediate filament, as a positive regulator of MSC survival in the inflammatory microenvironment. We showed that Nestin knockout led to a significant increase of MSC apoptosis, which hampered the therapeutic effects in an LPS-induced lung injury model. Mechanistically, Nestin knockout induced a significant elevation of endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress level. Further investigations showed that Nestin could bind to IRE1α and inhibit ER stress-induced apoptosis under stress. Furthermore, pretreatment with IRE1α inhibitor 4μ8C improved MSC survival and improved therapeutic effect. Our data suggests that Nestin enhances stem cell survival after transplantation by inhibiting ER stress-induced apoptosis, improving protection and repair of the lung inflammatory injury.","PeriodicalId":74073,"journal":{"name":"Life medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43543619","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Life medicinePub Date : 2022-11-04DOI: 10.1093/lifemedi/lnac050
Y. Sha, Yongjie Chen, Xiong Wang, R. Meng, Xiaoyan Yang, Youzhu Li, P. Jin, Shanze Li, Jie Chen, Tianyu Shao, Dan Xu, Yibiao Guo, Zhaodi Jiang, Yuhua Li, Shuntai Yu, Lin Li, Fengchao Wang
{"title":"Biallelic mutations in IQCN, encoding a novel acroplaxome protein, lead to fertilization failure and male infertility with defects in the acrosome and shaping of the spermatid head in humans and mice","authors":"Y. Sha, Yongjie Chen, Xiong Wang, R. Meng, Xiaoyan Yang, Youzhu Li, P. Jin, Shanze Li, Jie Chen, Tianyu Shao, Dan Xu, Yibiao Guo, Zhaodi Jiang, Yuhua Li, Shuntai Yu, Lin Li, Fengchao Wang","doi":"10.1093/lifemedi/lnac050","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnac050","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74073,"journal":{"name":"Life medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49598957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Life medicinePub Date : 2022-10-27DOI: 10.1093/lifemedi/lnac044
Jie Zhu, Yongpan An, Xin Wang, Liting Huang, Weikaixin Kong, Miaomiao Gao, Jingxiang Wang, Xinpei Sun, Sujie Zhu, Zhengwei Xie
{"title":"The natural product rotundic acid treats both aging and obesity by inhibiting PTP1B","authors":"Jie Zhu, Yongpan An, Xin Wang, Liting Huang, Weikaixin Kong, Miaomiao Gao, Jingxiang Wang, Xinpei Sun, Sujie Zhu, Zhengwei Xie","doi":"10.1093/lifemedi/lnac044","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnac044","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 The occurrence of obesity is associated with age. But their interplay remains mysterious. Here, we discovered that rotundic acid (RA), a plant-derived pentacyclic triterpene, was a powerful agent for both anti-aging and treating obesity. Considering that obese individuals decrease the appetite-suppressing and energy-expenditure-enhancing functions of leptin leading to obesity, we found RA was a leptin sensitizer, evidenced by observations that RA enhanced the leptin sensitivity to normal diet-induced obese (DIO) mice, and had minimal or no use to normal lean mice, leptin receptor-deficient (db/db) mice and leptin-deficient (ob/ob) mice. Simultaneously, RA significantly increased energy expenditure, BAT thermogenesis and glucose metabolism in DIO mice, as the results of enhancing leptin sensitivity. Regarding mode of action, we demonstrated that RA is a noncompetitive inhibitor of leptin negative regulators protein tyrosine phosphatase 1B (PTP1B) and T-cell PTP (TCPTP) through interaction with their C-terminus, thus leading to weight loss through enhancing leptin sensitivity. Besides, we showed that deletion of yPTP1 in yeast completely abolished the lifespan extension effect of RA, celstrol and withaferin A, while these compounds exhibited PTP1B inhibition activity. Furthermore, PTP1B knockdown extend lifespan in yeast and human cells, indicating PTP1B is an important factor regulating cellular aging.","PeriodicalId":74073,"journal":{"name":"Life medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43936108","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Life medicinePub Date : 2022-10-26DOI: 10.1093/lifemedi/lnac046
Yi Wu, Yang Liu, Zhihong Hao, Xingguo Liu
{"title":"NAD + is critical for maintaining acetyl-CoA and H3K27ac in embryonic stem cells by Sirt1-dependent deacetylation of AceCS1","authors":"Yi Wu, Yang Liu, Zhihong Hao, Xingguo Liu","doi":"10.1093/lifemedi/lnac046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnac046","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":74073,"journal":{"name":"Life medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44349057","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A comparative study of metformin and nicotinamide riboside in alleviating tissue aging in rats","authors":"Lingling Geng, Bin Zhang, Haisong Liu, Si Wang, Yusheng Cai, Kuan Yang, Zhiran Zou, Xiaoyu Jiang, Zunpeng Liu, Wei Li, Zeming Wu, Xiaoqian Liu, Qun Chu, Guang-Hui Liu, J. Qu, Weiqi Zhang","doi":"10.1093/lifemedi/lnac045","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/lifemedi/lnac045","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Metformin (MET) and nicotinamide riboside (NR) have both been reported to exert geroprotective effects in multiple species. However, the mechanism by which MET and NR reconnect the aging program and delay aging in multiple tissues remains unclear. Here, we demonstrated that MET and NR attenuate aging features in human mesenchymal stem cells. Moreover, by systematically investigating the pathophysiological changes in different tissues from aged rats after oral administration of MET and NR, we showed that both MET and NR treatment alleviated various aging-related characteristics in multiple tissues, including inflammation, fibrosis, and protein aggregates. Consistently, MET or NR treatment partially rescued aging-related gene expression changes in aged rats. Collectively, we report that both MET and NR attenuate senescence phenotypes in human stem cells in vitro and in a variety of rodent tissues in vivo, thus providing a valuable resource and foundation for further evaluation of these two compounds against aging.","PeriodicalId":74073,"journal":{"name":"Life medicine","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2022-10-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45256153","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}