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Proteostasis collapse is a driver of cell aging and death

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Santra, Mantu, Dill, Ken A., de Graff, Adam M. R.·2019·Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

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Significance: Cells and organisms grow old and die. We develop a biophysical model of the mechanism. Young cells are kept healthy by the positive processes of protein synthesis, degradation, and chaperoning (the activity of keeping proteins properly folded). But, with age, negative processes increase: Oxidative damage accumulates randomly in the cell’s proteins, healthy synthesis and degradation slow down, and—like overfilled garbage cans—chaperone capacity is exceeded. The chaperones are distracted trying to fold irreversibly damaged proteins, leading to accumulating misfolded and aggregated proteins in the cell. The tipping point to death happens when the negative overwhelms the positive. The model makes several quantitative predictions of the life span of the worm Caenorhabditis elegans .

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Authors
Santra, M., Dill, K. A., & de Graff, A. M. R.
Affiliations
  • Stony Brook School (US)
  • Stony Brook University (US)
  • Laufer Center for Physical and Quantitative Biology, Stony Brook University, Stony Brook, NY 11794-5252;
Corresponding author
Dill, Ken A.
Venue
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
Published
2019-10-16
Volume
116
Issue
44
Pages
22173-22178
ISSN
  • 0027-8424 (ISSN-L)
  • 1091-6490
OpenAlex
W2981013456
Cited by
175
References
85
Citations by year
2026: 17 · 2025: 27 · 2024: 21 · 2023: 34 · 2022: 35 · 2021: 24 · 2020: 16 · 2019: 1
FWCI
6.91
Type
journal article
Language
en
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  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed Central (publishedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion, cc-by-nc-nd)
Funders
NSF | BIO | Division of Biological Infrastructure (PHY1205881)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Aging › Genetics, Aging, and Longevity in Model Organisms
  • Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Heat shock proteins research
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Epidemiology › Autophagy in Disease and Therapy
Keywords
proteostasis, cellular aging, cell death, protein folding, molecular chaperones, protein misfolding, protein aggregation, oxidative damage, protein synthesis, protein degradation, biophysical model, lifespan, Caenorhabditis elegans, aging
MeSH terms
Proteostasis, Animals, DNA Damage, Models, Biological, Time Factors, Cellular Senescence, Cell Death, Caenorhabditis elegans, Oxidative Stress, Molecular Chaperones

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