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Rejuvenating senescent and centenarian human cells by reprogramming through the pluripotent state
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Direct reprogramming of somatic cells into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) provides a unique opportunity to derive patient-specific stem cells with potential applications in tissue replacement therapies and without the ethical concerns of human embryonic stem cells (hESCs). However, cellular senescence, which contributes to aging and restricted longevity, has been described as a barrier to the derivation of iPSCs. Here we demonstrate, using an optimized protocol, that cellular senescence is not a limit to reprogramming and that age-related cellular physiology is reversible. Thus, we show that our iPSCs generated from senescent and centenarian cells have reset telomere size, gene expression profiles, oxidative stress, and mitochondrial metabolism, and are indistinguishable from hESCs. Finally, we show that senescent and centenarian-derived pluripotent stem cells are able to redifferentiate into fully rejuvenated cells. These results provide new insights into iPSC technology and pave the way for regenerative medicine for aged patients.
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“However, induction of pluripotency in iPSCs resets the age signatures of the donor cells to a fetal stage (7–9).”
From Modeling late-onset Alzheimer’s disease neuropathology via direct neuronal reprogramming (2024) · cites this paper as [7]
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“Telomere length decreases with age due to cell proliferation in the absence of telomerase enzymes and is restored upon complete iPSC reprogramming (Lapasset et al., 2011).”
From Multi-omic rejuvenation of human cells by maturation phase transient reprogramming (2022) · cites this paper as Lapasset et al., 2011
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“The rejuvenation of aging hallmarks has been extensively described during cellular reprogramming to pluripotency in vitro (Lapasset et al., 2011;Liu et al., 2011;Mahmoudi and Brunet, 2012;Rando and Chang, 2012), but the dynamics of this process remain poorly understood.”
From In Vivo Amelioration of Age-Associated Hallmarks by Partial Reprogramming. (2016) · cites this paper as Lapasset et al., 2011
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“Several groups, including ours, have observed an amelioration of age-associated cellular phenotypes during in vitro cellular reprogramming”
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“iPSC reprogramming reverses many age-associated changes, including telomere attrition and oxidative stress (Lapasset et al., 2011).”
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“Early reports using cells derived from old donors to generate iPS cells demonstrated beneficial effects on senescence phenotypes and telomere length [26][27][28] .”
From Mechanisms, pathways and strategies for rejuvenation through epigenetic reprogramming (2023) · cites this paper as [26]
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“but protocols relied upon rejuvenation through re-differentiation after iPS cell formation 20,26,28 .”
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“Early experiments in human cells were somewhat encouraging as they provide evidence that some of the biomarkers of aging (that is telomere lengths) were responding to the epigenetic reprogramming”
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“Of note, senescent cells from elderly people could be reverted to a pluripotent state only by the additional over-expression of NANOG and LIN2 in addition to Oct3/4, Sox2, c-Myc, and KLF4.196”
From Senescence-induced inflammation: an important player and key therapeutic target in atherosclerosis (2020) · cites this paper as [196]
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“A growing body of evidence, including the present study and a prior report of reprogramming of senescent human fibroblasts into induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs; ref. 48), suggests that near-senescent or senescent cells can be induced back into a proliferative state.”
From p53 isoforms regulate aging- and tumor-associated replicative senescence in T lymphocytes (2013) · cites this paper as [48]
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“Reprogramming cells from elderly humans (as old as 101 years of age) into pluripotent cells erases many of the hallmarks of aging and restores a youthful gene expression profile that is maintained during differentiation (Lapasset et al., 2011; Mertens et al., 2015).”
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BackgroundLinking the p53 tumour suppressor pathway to somatic cell reprogramming
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“It has been reported by several groups that cellular senescence is a barrier to reprogramming due to upregulation of p53, p16, and p21, which are also induced by some of the iPSC reprogramming factors (Banito et al. 2009; Kawamura et al. 2009; Li et al. 2009; Marion et al. 2009a; Utikal et al. 2009).”
BackgroundThe Ink4/Arf locus is a barrier for iPS cell reprogramming
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Direct cell reprogramming is a stochastic process amenable to acceleration
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“This method has been described to successfully generate iPS cells from centenarian adult fibroblasts as well as from fibroblasts serially passaged to replicative senescence (199).”
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“This evidence correlates with studies showing that fibroblasts or T cells derived from centenarians reset their telomeres, which results in rejuvenation and sustained proliferation (Lapasset et al., 2011).”
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- Authors
- Lapasset, L., Milhavet, O., Prieur, A., Besnard, E., Babled, A., Aït-Hamou, N., Leschik, J., Pellestor, F., Ramirez, J.-M., De Vos, J., Lehmann, S., & Lemaitre, J.-M.
- Affiliations
- Institut de Génomique Fonctionnelle (FR)
- Hôpital Arnaud de Villeneuve (FR)
- Hôpital Saint Eloi (FR)
- Institut de Génétique Humaine (FR)
- ORCID
- Venue
- Genes & Development
- Publisher
- Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
- Published
- 2011-11-01
- Volume
- 25
- Issue
- 21
- Pages
- 2248-2253
- ISSN
- 0890-9369 (ISSN-L)
- 1549-5477
- PMC
- PMC3219229
- OpenAlex
- W2114840727
- Cited by
- 570
- References
- 31
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- Type
- posted content
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Genes & Development (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- HAL (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-07-BLAN-0076)
- Institut National de la Santé et de la Recherche Médicale
- Institut National Du Cancer
- Topics
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Molecular Biology › Pluripotent Stem Cells Research
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Telomeres, Telomerase, and Senescence
- Life Sciences › Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology › Cell Biology › Mesenchymal stem cell research
- Keywords
- cellular senescence, induced pluripotent stem cells, direct reprogramming, aging, telomere length, oxidative stress, mitochondrial metabolism, gene expression profiles, redifferentiation, rejuvenation, regenerative medicine
- MeSH terms
- Aged, Aged, 80 and over, Animals, Cell Differentiation, Cell Line, Cells, Cultured, Humans, Mitochondria, Rejuvenation, Transcription Factors, Mice, SCID, Telomere, Mice, Inbred NOD, Cellular Senescence, Mice, Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells, Cellular Reprogramming
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