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The YAP-TEAD complex promotes senescent cell survival by lowering endoplasmic reticulum stress

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Anerillas, Carlos, Mazan-Mamczarz, Krystyna, Herman, Allison B., Munk, Rachel, Lam, Kwan-Wood Gabriel, Calvo-Rubio, Miguel, Garrido, Amanda, Tsitsipatis, Dimitrios +10 more·2023·Nature Aging

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Sublethal cell damage can trigger senescence, a complex adaptive program characterized by growth arrest, resistance to apoptosis and a senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). Here, a whole-genome CRISPR knockout screen revealed that proteins in the YAP-TEAD pathway influenced senescent cell viability. Accordingly, treating senescent cells with a drug that inhibited this pathway, verteporfin (VPF), selectively triggered apoptotic cell death largely by derepressing DDIT4, which in turn inhibited mTOR. Reducing mTOR function in senescent cells diminished endoplasmic reticulum (ER) biogenesis, triggering ER stress and apoptosis due to high demands on ER function by the SASP. Importantly, VPF treatment decreased the numbers of senescent cells in the organs of old mice and mice exhibiting doxorubicin-induced senescence. Moreover, VPF treatment reduced immune cell infiltration and pro-fibrotic transforming growth factor-β signaling in aging mouse lungs, improving tissue homeostasis. We present an alternative senolytic strategy that eliminates senescent cells by hindering ER activity required for SASP production.

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  • The TGFβ pathway representation in non-senescent epithelial cells from old lungs is consistent with enhanced paracrine signaling from increased numbers of senescent neighbors and with established features of epithelial aging.

    “consistent with enhanced paracrine signaling from increased numbers of senescent neighbors and with established features of epithelial aging.23,25,32–35”

    From SenCat: Cataloging human cell senescence through multi-omic profiling of multiple senescent primary cell types (2026) · cites this paper as [23]

    In Results (‘VPF treatment reduces senescent cell burden in mice’; page unavailable), the paper reports age-associated TGF-β signatures in some lung epithelial cell types and TGF-β signaling from fibroblasts and capillary aerocytes affecting neighboring epithelial cells. This supports the proposed paracrine interpretation, but the paper does not establish that the epithelial cells are non-senescent or that increased numbers of senescent neighbors caused their pathway representation. (LLM, conf=0.82)

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  • Reliably detecting senescent cells within tissues and organs has been a central difficulty for the field.

    “A major challenge in the field has been to reliably identify senescent cells in tissues and organs.23,25,32–35”
  • The study required minimal or no cell death in senescence models to avoid noise from other damage responses such as apoptosis.

    “we set the strict requirement that minimal or no cell death was seen to avoid noise from other forms of damage response such as apoptosis.21–23”

    From SenCat: Cataloging human cell senescence through multi-omic profiling of multiple senescent primary cell types (2026) · cites this paper as [23]

    The Methods section on cell culture and senescence induction describes the models and how cell viability was measured, but states no requirement for minimal or absent cell death. I searched for a cell-death threshold and for avoiding apoptosis as a confounding response; neither rationale appears in the retrieved passages (page numbers unavailable). (LLM, conf=0.74)

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Anerillas, C., Mazan-Mamczarz, K., Herman, A. B., Munk, R., Lam, K.-W. G., Calvo-Rubio, M., Garrido, A., Tsitsipatis, D., Martindale, J. L., Altés, G., Rossi, M., Piao, Y., Fan, J., Cui, C.-Y., De, S., Abdelmohsen, K., de Cabo, R., & Gorospe, M.
Affiliations
National Institutes of Health (US)
Corresponding author
  • Anerillas, Carlos
  • Gorospe, Myriam
Venue
Nature Aging
Published
2023-09-04
Volume
3
Issue
10
Pages
1237-1250
ISSN
2662-8465 (ISSN-L)
OpenAlex
W4386438437
Cited by
76
References
78
Citations by year
2026: 26 · 2025: 26 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 1
FWCI
13.07
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Nature Aging (publishedVersion)
  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) (acceptedVersion)
  • Research Square (acceptedVersion, cc-by)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • CINECA IRIS Institutial Research Information System (University of Genoa) (submittedVersion)
Funders
National Institute on Aging Intramural Research Program, NIH
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Physiology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Hippo pathway signaling and YAP/TAZ
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
Keywords
cellular senescence, senolytics, verteporfin, endoplasmic reticulum stress, senescence-associated secretory phenotype, DDIT4, mTOR inhibition, apoptosis, aging, pulmonary fibrosis, doxorubicin-induced senescence, immune cell infiltration, TGF-beta signaling
MeSH terms
YAP-Signaling Proteins, TEA Domain Transcription Factors, Aging, Animals, Cell Survival, Signal Transduction, Cellular Senescence, Mice, TOR Serine-Threonine Kinases, Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress

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