Nature agingPub Date : 2025-01-16DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00773-2
Gabrielle Gilmer, Hirotaka Iijima, Zachary R. Hettinger, Natalie Jackson, Juliana Bergmann, Allison C. Bean, Nafiseh Shahshahan, Ekaterina Creed, Rylee Kopchak, Kai Wang, Hannah Houston, Jonathan M. Franks, Michael J. Calderon, Claudette St Croix, Rebecca C. Thurston, Christopher H. Evans, Fabrisia Ambrosio
{"title":"Menopause-induced 17β-estradiol and progesterone loss increases senescence markers, matrix disassembly and degeneration in mouse cartilage","authors":"Gabrielle Gilmer, Hirotaka Iijima, Zachary R. Hettinger, Natalie Jackson, Juliana Bergmann, Allison C. Bean, Nafiseh Shahshahan, Ekaterina Creed, Rylee Kopchak, Kai Wang, Hannah Houston, Jonathan M. Franks, Michael J. Calderon, Claudette St Croix, Rebecca C. Thurston, Christopher H. Evans, Fabrisia Ambrosio","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00773-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00773-2","url":null,"abstract":"Female individuals who are post-menopausal present with higher incidence of knee osteoarthritis (KOA) than male counterparts; however, the mechanisms underlying this disparity are unknown. The most commonly used preclinical models lack human-relevant menopausal phenotypes, which may contribute to our incomplete understanding of sex-specific differences in KOA pathogenesis. Here we chemically induced menopause in middle-aged (14–16 months) C57/BL6N female mice. When we mapped the trajectory of KOA over time, we found that menopause aggravated cartilage degeneration relative to non-menopause controls. Network medicine analyses revealed that loss of 17β-estradiol and progesterone with menopause enhanced susceptibility to senescence and extracellular matrix disassembly. In vivo, restoration of 17β-estradiol and progesterone in menopausal mice protected against cartilage degeneration compared to untreated menopausal controls. Accordingly, post-menopausal human chondrocytes displayed decreased markers of senescence and increased markers of chondrogenicity when cultured with 17β-estradiol and progesterone. These findings implicate menopause-associated senescence and extracellular matrix disassembly in the sex-specific pathogenesis of KOA. Knee osteoarthritis has a sex-specific phenotype with post-menopausal persons experiencing the highest incidence. Here the authors investigate the underlying mechanisms in a mouse model of menopause and find that the loss of 17β-estradiol and progesterone enhanced susceptibility to senescence, extracellular matrix disassembly and cartilage degradation.","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"5 1","pages":"65-86"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142995867","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}
Nature agingPub Date : 2025-01-14DOI: 10.1038/s43587-025-00806-4
George Andrew S. Inglis
{"title":"Unequal life expectancy across ten Americas","authors":"George Andrew S. Inglis","doi":"10.1038/s43587-025-00806-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-025-00806-4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"5 1","pages":"9-9"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142985902","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}
Nature agingPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00794-x
Zane Koch, Adam Li, Daniel S Evans, Steven Cummings, Trey Ideker
{"title":"Somatic mutation as an explanation for epigenetic aging.","authors":"Zane Koch, Adam Li, Daniel S Evans, Steven Cummings, Trey Ideker","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00794-x","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00794-x","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>DNA methylation marks have recently been used to build models known as epigenetic clocks, which predict calendar age. As methylation of cytosine promotes C-to-T mutations, we hypothesized that the methylation changes observed with age should reflect the accrual of somatic mutations, and the two should yield analogous aging estimates. In an analysis of multimodal data from 9,331 human individuals, we found that CpG mutations indeed coincide with changes in methylation, not only at the mutated site but with pervasive remodeling of the methylome out to ±10 kilobases. This one-to-many mapping allows mutation-based predictions of age that agree with epigenetic clocks, including which individuals are aging more rapidly or slowly than expected. Moreover, genomic loci where mutations accumulate with age also tend to have methylation patterns that are especially predictive of age. These results suggest a close coupling between the accumulation of sporadic somatic mutations and the widespread changes in methylation observed over the course of life.</p>","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142981082","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}
Nature agingPub Date : 2025-01-13DOI: 10.1038/s43587-025-00808-2
John R Beard, Katja Hanewald, Yafei Si, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, Dario Moreno-Agostino
{"title":"Publisher Correction: Cohort trends in intrinsic capacity in England and China.","authors":"John R Beard, Katja Hanewald, Yafei Si, Jotheeswaran Amuthavalli Thiyagarajan, Dario Moreno-Agostino","doi":"10.1038/s43587-025-00808-2","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-025-00808-2","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142981080","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":"Gut microbial-derived phenylacetylglutamine accelerates host cellular senescence.","authors":"Hao Yang, Tongyao Wang, Chenglang Qian, Huijing Wang, Dong Yu, Meifang Shi, Mengwei Fu, Xueguang Liu, Miaomiao Pan, Xingyu Rong, Zhenming Xiao, Xiejiu Chen, Anaguli Yeerken, Yonglin Wu, Yufan Zheng, Hui Yang, Ming Zhang, Tao Liu, Peng Qiao, Yifan Qu, Yong Lin, Yiqin Huang, Jianliang Jin, Nan Liu, Yumei Wen, Ning Sun, Chao Zhao","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00795-w","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00795-w","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Gut microbiota plays a crucial role in the host health in the aging process. However, the mechanisms for how gut microbiota triggers cellular senescence and the consequent impact on human aging remain enigmatic. Here we show that phenylacetylglutamine (PAGln), a metabolite linked to gut microbiota, drives host cellular senescence. Our findings indicate that the gut microbiota alters with age, which leads to increased production of phenylacetic acid (PAA) and its downstream metabolite PAGln in older individuals. The PAGln-induced senescent phenotype was verified in both cellular models and mouse models. Further experiments revealed that PAGln induces mitochondrial dysfunction and DNA damage via adrenoreceptor (ADR)-AMP-activated protein kinase (AMPK) signaling. Blockade of ADRs as well as senolytics therapy impede PAGln-induced cellular senescence in vivo, implying potential anti-aging therapies. This combined evidence reveals that PAGln, a naturally occurring metabolite of human gut microbiota, mechanistically accelerates host cellular senescence.</p>","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142967580","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}
Nature agingPub Date : 2025-01-08DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00790-1
Byeong-Seong Kim, Inwoo Hwang, Hyo Rim Ko, Young Kwan Kim, Hee Jin Kim, Sang Won Seo, Yujung Choi, Sungsu Lim, Yun Kyung Kim, Shuke Nie, Keqiang Ye, Jong-Chan Park, Yunjong Lee, Dong-Gyu Jo, Seung Eun Lee, Daesik Kim, Sung-Woo Cho, Jee-Yin Ahn
{"title":"EBP1 potentiates amyloid β pathology by regulating γ-secretase.","authors":"Byeong-Seong Kim, Inwoo Hwang, Hyo Rim Ko, Young Kwan Kim, Hee Jin Kim, Sang Won Seo, Yujung Choi, Sungsu Lim, Yun Kyung Kim, Shuke Nie, Keqiang Ye, Jong-Chan Park, Yunjong Lee, Dong-Gyu Jo, Seung Eun Lee, Daesik Kim, Sung-Woo Cho, Jee-Yin Ahn","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00790-1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1038/s43587-024-00790-1","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The abnormal deposition of amyloid β (Aβ), produced by proteolytic cleavage events of amyloid precursor protein involving the protease γ-secretase and subsequent polymerization into amyloid plaques, plays a key role in the neuropathology of Alzheimer's disease (AD). Here we show that ErbB3 binding protein 1 (EBP1)/proliferation-associated 2G4 (PA2G4) interacts with presenilin, a catalytic subunit of γ-secretase, inhibiting Aβ production. Mice lacking forebrain Ebp1/Pa2g4 recapitulate the representative phenotypes of late-onset sporadic AD, displaying an age-dependent increase in Aβ deposition, amyloid plaques and cognitive dysfunction. In postmortem brains of patients with AD and 5x-FAD mice, we found that EBP1 is proteolytically cleaved by asparagine endopeptidase at N84 and N204 residues, compromising its inhibitory effect on γ-secretase, increasing Aβ aggregation and neurodegeneration. Accordingly, injection of AAV2-Ebp1 wild-type or an asparagine endopeptidase-uncleavable mutant into the brains of 5x-FAD mice decreased Aβ generation and alleviated the behavioral impairments. Thus, our study suggests that EBP1 acts as an inhibitor of γ-secretase on amyloid precursor protein cleavage and preservation of functional EBP1 could be a therapeutic strategy for AD.</p>","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":" ","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2025-01-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142960791","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}