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Telomeres: history, health, and hallmarks of aging

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Chakravarti, Deepavali, LaBella, Kyle A., DePinho, Ronald A.·2021·Cell

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The escalating social and economic burden of an aging world population has placed aging research at center stage. The hallmarks of aging comprise diverse molecular mechanisms and cellular systems that are interrelated and act in concert to drive the aging process. Here, through the lens of telomere biology, we examine how telomere dysfunction may amplify or drive molecular biological processes underlying each hallmark of aging and contribute to development of age-related diseases such as neurodegeneration and cancer. The intimate link of telomeres to aging hallmarks informs preventive and therapeutic interventions designed to attenuate aging itself and reduce the incidence of age-associated diseases.

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  • tDDR activation and TAF accumulation are often causally connected to other ageing-associated processes including mitochondrial dysfunction, altered nutrient sensing, impaired autophagy, loss of proteostasis and epigenetic dysregulation, suggesting a telomere-centric rationale for many ageing hallmarks.

    “tDDR activation and TAF accumulation are often causally connected to other ageing-associated processes. These include mitochondrial dysfunction, altered nutrient sensing, impaired autophagy, loss of proteostasis and epigenetic dysregulation, which suggests that there is a unifying ‘telomere-centric’ mechanistic rationale for many ageing hallmarks, as also proposed in ref.29.”

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Authors
Chakravarti, D., LaBella, K. A., & DePinho, R. A.
Affiliations
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center (US)
Corresponding author
DePinho, Ronald A.
Venue
Cell
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2021-01
Volume
184
Issue
2
Pages
306-322
ISSN
0092-8674 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W3119985674
Cited by
637
References
152
Citations by year
2026: 84 · 2025: 141 · 2024: 173 · 2023: 124 · 2022: 82 · 2021: 31 · 2013: 1
FWCI
13.74
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Cell (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institutes of Health (R01 CA084628, UL1TR003167, TL1TR003169)
  • National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences
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 › Nuclear Structure and Function
Keywords
telomeres, hallmarks of aging, telomere dysfunction, aging, age-related diseases, neurodegeneration, cancer, anti-aging interventions
MeSH terms
Aging, Animals, Health, Humans, Telomere, Cellular Senescence, Telomerase, Genomic Instability

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