Nature agingPub Date : 2024-08-02DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00690-4
{"title":"Multiorgan biological age shows that no organ system is an island","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00690-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00690-4","url":null,"abstract":"In our study, we linked machine-learning-derived biological age gaps (BAGs) to common genetic variants in nine human organ systems, which revealed how these BAGs are causally associated with organ health and chronic diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease and diabetes. The findings provide insights into therapeutic and lifestyle interventions that might enhance organ health.","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"4 9","pages":"1182-1183"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141879994","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":"Maternal age enhances purifying selection on pathogenic mutations in complex I genes of mammalian mtDNA","authors":"Yanfei Ru, Xiaoling Deng, Jiatong Chen, Leping Zhang, Zhe Xu, Qunyu Lv, Shiyun Long, Zijian Huang, Minghua Kong, Jing Guo, Min Jiang","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00672-6","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00672-6","url":null,"abstract":"Mitochondrial diseases, caused mainly by pathogenic mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) mutations, pose major challenges due to the lack of effective treatments. Investigating the patterns of maternal transmission of mitochondrial diseases could pave the way for preventive approaches. In this study, we used DddA-derived cytosine base editors (DdCBEs) to generate two mouse models, each haboring a single pathogenic mutation in complex I genes (ND1 and ND5), replicating those found in human patients. Our findings revealed that both mutations are under strong purifying selection during maternal transmission and occur predominantly during postnatal oocyte maturation, with increased protein synthesis playing a vital role. Interestingly, we discovered that maternal age intensifies the purifying selection, suggesting that older maternal age may offer a protective effect against the transmission of deleterious mtDNA mutations, contradicting the conventional notion that maternal age correlates with increased transmitted mtDNA mutations. As collecting comprehensive clinical data is needed to understand the relationship between maternal age and transmission patterns in humans, our findings may have profound implications for reproductive counseling of mitochondrial diseases, especially those involving complex I gene mutations. Mitochondrial DNA mutations are subject to purifying selection in the female germline, limiting the transmission of pathogenic variants. In this study, the authors used two mouse models that harbor pathogenic mutations in mitochondrial complex I and observed that maternal age intensifies purifying selection processes.","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"4 9","pages":"1211-1230"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141794453","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 : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00681-5
Helena M. Cochemé, Jesús Gil
{"title":"mTOR links nutrients, inflammaging and lifespan","authors":"Helena M. Cochemé, Jesús Gil","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00681-5","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00681-5","url":null,"abstract":"A study from Ortega-Molina and colleagues uses mouse models with mildly elevated mTOR activity to investigate the stepwise process by which increased nutrient signaling affects healthy aging. These findings show how initial parenchymal damage caused by mTOR activity is followed by secondary myeloid inflammation, a multistage process that culminates in organ deterioration and reduced lifespan.","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"4 8","pages":"1034-1035"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141768397","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 : 2024-07-26DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00674-4
Fangchao Wei, Shiyu Liu, Juan Liu, Yudong Sun, Annamarie E. Allen, Michael A. Reid, Jason W. Locasale
{"title":"Separation of reproductive decline from lifespan extension during methionine restriction","authors":"Fangchao Wei, Shiyu Liu, Juan Liu, Yudong Sun, Annamarie E. Allen, Michael A. Reid, Jason W. Locasale","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00674-4","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00674-4","url":null,"abstract":"Lifespan-extending interventions are generally thought to result in reduced fecundity. The generality of this principle and how it may extend to nutrition and metabolism is not understood. We considered dietary methionine restriction (MR), a lifespan-extending intervention linked to Mediterranean and plant-based diets. Using a chemically defined diet that we developed for Drosophila melanogaster, we surveyed the nutritional landscape in the background of MR and found that folic acid, a vitamin linked to one-carbon metabolism, notably was the lone nutrient that restored reproductive capacity while maintaining lifespan extension. In vivo isotope tracing, metabolomics and flux analysis identified the tricarboxylic cycle and redox coupling as major determinants of the MR-folic acid benefits, in part, as they related to sperm function. Together these findings suggest that dietary interventions optimized for longevity may be separable from adverse effects such as reproductive decline. Methionine restriction decreases fecundity and increases lifespan in flies. Here Wei et al. show that supplementing folic acid, associated with one-carbon metabolism, during methionine restriction in flies, mitigates the decline in fertility while retaining the intervention’s life-extending benefits.","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"4 8","pages":"1089-1101"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141768398","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 features and circulating metabolomic signatures of frailty in older adults","authors":"Yanni Pu, Zhonghan Sun, Hui Zhang, Qingxia Huang, Zhengdong Wang, Zhendong Mei, Peilu Wang, Mengmeng Kong, Wenjun Yang, Chenhao Lin, Xiaofeng Zhou, Shuchun Lin, Qiumin Huang, Lili Huang, Liang Sun, Changzheng Yuan, Qian Xu, Huiru Tang, Xiaofeng Wang, Yan Zheng","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00678-0","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00678-0","url":null,"abstract":"Frailty, a multidimensional indicator of suboptimal aging, reflects cumulative declines across multiple physiological systems. Although age-related changes have been reported in gut microbiota, their role in healthy aging remains unclear. In this study, we calculated frailty index (FI) from 33 health-related items to reflect the overall health status of 1,821 older adults (62–96 years, 55% female) and conducted multi-omics analysis using gut metagenomic sequencing data and plasma metabolomic data. We identified 18 microbial species and 17 metabolites shifted along with frailty severity, with stronger links observed in females. The associations of nine species, including various Clostridium species and Faecalibacterium prausnitzii, with FI were reproducible in two external populations. Plasma glycerol levels, white blood cell count and kidney function partially mediated these associations. A composite microbial score derived from FI significantly predicted 2-year mortality (adjusted hazard ratio across extreme quartiles, 2.86; 95% confidence interval, 1.38–5.93), highlighting the potential of microbiota-based strategies for risk stratification in older adults. This study reveals gut microbial and metabolomic features associated with the severity of frailty, demonstrating that these microbial features outperform traditional assessment tools in identifying individuals at high risk of frailty and mortality.","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"4 9","pages":"1249-1262"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141763664","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 : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00670-8
Zehan Song, Sang Hee Park, Wei-Chieh Mu, Yufan Feng, Chih-Ling Wang, Yifei Wang, Marine Barthez, Ayane Maruichi, Jiayue Guo, Fanghan Yang, Anita Wong Lin, Kartoosh Heydari, Claudia C. S. Chini, Eduardo N. Chini, Cholsoon Jang, Danica Chen
{"title":"An NAD+-dependent metabolic checkpoint regulates hematopoietic stem cell activation and aging","authors":"Zehan Song, Sang Hee Park, Wei-Chieh Mu, Yufan Feng, Chih-Ling Wang, Yifei Wang, Marine Barthez, Ayane Maruichi, Jiayue Guo, Fanghan Yang, Anita Wong Lin, Kartoosh Heydari, Claudia C. S. Chini, Eduardo N. Chini, Cholsoon Jang, Danica Chen","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00670-8","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00670-8","url":null,"abstract":"How hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) maintain metabolic homeostasis to support tissue repair and regeneration throughout the lifespan is elusive. Here, we show that CD38, an NAD+-dependent metabolic enzyme, promotes HSC proliferation by inducing mitochondrial Ca2+ influx and mitochondrial metabolism in young mice. Conversely, aberrant CD38 upregulation during aging is a driver of HSC deterioration in aged mice due to dysregulated NAD+ metabolism and compromised mitochondrial stress management. The mitochondrial calcium uniporter, a mediator of mitochondrial Ca2+ influx, also supports HSC proliferation in young mice yet drives HSC decline in aged mice. Pharmacological inactivation of CD38 reverses HSC aging and the pathophysiological changes of the aging hematopoietic system in aged mice. Together, our study highlights an NAD+ metabolic checkpoint that balances mitochondrial activation to support HSC proliferation and mitochondrial stress management to enhance HSC self-renewal throughout the lifespan, and links aberrant Ca2+ signaling to HSC aging. Song et al. show that in young mice CD38 supports hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) proliferation by regulating Ca2+ signaling and mitochondrial activity. Conversely, the upregulation of CD38 during aging causes dysregulation of NAD metabolism, mitochondrial stress and HSC dysfunction.","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"4 10","pages":"1384-1393"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141753714","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 : 2024-07-23DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00687-z
{"title":"Long-term cognitive change after COVID-19 in older individuals","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00687-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00687-z","url":null,"abstract":"Our study shows that older adults who survive severe COVID-19 suffer accelerated cognitive decline for 1 year after infection, after which the rate of decline decelerates. Long-lasting cognitive impairment occurs mostly in individuals who had severe COVID-19, showed cognitive impairments at 6 months after infection and had coexisting hypertension.","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"4 9","pages":"1180-1181"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141753715","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 : 2024-07-19DOI: 10.1038/s43587-024-00679-z
{"title":"Demystifying the appeal process","authors":"","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00679-z","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00679-z","url":null,"abstract":"Rejections by peer-reviewed journals are frequent, but authors may get a second chance to convince editors and peers by submitting an appeal. Here we explain how we approach appeals at Nature Aging and share some statistics on them to help authors to carefully consider when and how to appeal.","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"4 7","pages":"903-903"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.nature.com/articles/s43587-024-00679-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141728413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A metabolic atlas of blood cells in young and aged mice identifies uridine as a metabolite to rejuvenate aged hematopoietic stem cells","authors":"Xiangjun Zeng, Ce Shi, Yingli Han, Kejia Hu, Xiaoqing Li, Cong Wei, Lijuan Ding, Jiazhen Cui, Simao Huang, Yulin Xu, Meng Zhang, Wei Shan, Qian Luo, Jian Yu, Zhongzheng Zheng, Xia Li, Pengxu Qian, He Huang","doi":"10.1038/s43587-024-00669-1","DOIUrl":"10.1038/s43587-024-00669-1","url":null,"abstract":"Aging of hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) is accompanied by impaired self-renewal ability, myeloid skewing, immunodeficiencies and increased susceptibility to malignancies. Although previous studies highlighted the pivotal roles of individual metabolites in hematopoiesis, comprehensive and high-resolution metabolomic profiles of different hematopoietic cells across ages are still lacking. In this study, we created a metabolome atlas of different blood cells across ages in mice. We reveal here that purine, pyrimidine and retinol metabolism are enriched in young hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells (HSPCs), whereas glutamate and sphingolipid metabolism are concentrated in aged HSPCs. Through metabolic screening, we identified uridine as a potential regulator to rejuvenate aged HSPCs. Mechanistically, uridine treatment upregulates the FoxO signaling pathway and enhances self-renewal while suppressing inflammation in aged HSCs. Finally, we constructed an open-source platform for public easy access and metabolomic analysis in blood cells. Collectively, we provide a resource for metabolic studies in hematopoiesis that can contribute to future anti-aging metabolite screening. Zeng, Shi, Han, Hu, Li, Wei et al. present a metabolic atlas covering 15 hematopoietic cell types from young and aged mice. By screening metabolites that are depleted with age, they identify that uridine treatment can restore function in aged hematopoietic stem cells.","PeriodicalId":94150,"journal":{"name":"Nature aging","volume":"4 10","pages":"1477-1492"},"PeriodicalIF":17.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141636320","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}