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Genome-Wide Network Analysis of DRG-Sciatic Nerve Network-Inferred Cellular Senescence and Senescence Phenotype in Peripheral Sensory Neurons

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Kawabata, Sora, Iijima, Hirotaka, Kanemura, Naohiko, Murata, Kenji·2025·Molecular Neurobiology

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Accumulation of senescent neurons in the dorsal root ganglion (DRG) is an important tissue phenotype that causes age-related degeneration of peripheral sensory nerves. Senescent neurons are neurons with arrested cell cycle that have undergone cellular senescence but remain in the tissue and play various biological roles. To understand the accumulation of senescent neurons in the DRG during aging, we aimed to elucidate the mechanism that induces cellular senescence in DRG neurons and the role of senescent DRG neurons. We integrated multiple public transcriptome datasets for DRGs, which include cell bodies in neurons, and the sciatic nerve, which includes axons in neurons, using network medicine-based bioinformatics analysis. We thus inferred the molecular mechanisms involved in cellular senescence of DRG neurons, from molecular responses to senescence, in the DRG-sciatic nerve network. Network medicine-based bioinformatics analysis revealed that age-related Mapk3 decline leads to impaired cholesterol metabolism and biosynthetic function in axons, resulting in compensatory upregulation of Srebf1, a transcription factor involved in lipid and cholesterol metabolism. This in turn leads to CDKN2A-mediated cellular senescence. Furthermore, our analysis revealed that senescent DRG neurons develop a senescence phenotype characterized by activation of antigen-presenting cells via upregulation of Ctss as a hub gene. B cells were inferred as antigen-presenting cells activated by Ctss, and CD8-positive T cells were inferred as cells that receive antigen presentation from B cells.

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Authors
Kawabata, S., Iijima, H., Kanemura, N., & Murata, K.
Affiliations
  • Saitama Prefectural University (JP)
  • Harvard University (US)
Corresponding author
Murata, Kenji
Venue
Molecular Neurobiology
Published
2024-12-23
Volume
62
Issue
5
Pages
6112-6127
ISSN
  • 0893-7648 (ISSN-L)
  • 1559-1182
OpenAlex
W4405701077
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68
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Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Molecular Neurobiology (publishedVersion)
  • Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Funders
  • the Grant-in-Aid for JSPS Fellows (JP23KJ1789)
  • Saitama Prefectural University Research(SPUR) Grant
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics
Keywords
cellular senescence, dorsal root ganglion neurons, peripheral sensory neurons, sciatic nerve, aging, ERK1, cholesterol metabolism, SREBF1, CDKN2A, cathepsin S, antigen-presenting cells, B cells, CD8+ T cells, axons
MeSH terms
Aging, Animals, Ganglia, Spinal, Humans, Phenotype, Sensory Receptor Cells, Sciatic Nerve, Cellular Senescence, Cyclin-Dependent Kinase Inhibitor p16, Gene Regulatory Networks, Transcriptome

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