A new gene set identifies senescent cells and predicts senescence-associated pathways across tissues.
Dominik SaulRobyn Laura KosinskyElizabeth J AtkinsonMadison L DoolittleXu ZhangNathan K LeBrasseurRobert J PignoloPaul D RobbinsLaura J NiedernhoferYuji IkenoDiana JurkJoão F PassosLaTonya J HicksonAiling XueDavid G MonroeTamara TchkoniaJames L KirklandJoshua N FarrSundeep KhoslaPublished in: Nature communications (2022)
Although cellular senescence drives multiple age-related co-morbidities through the senescence-associated secretory phenotype, in vivo senescent cell identification remains challenging. Here, we generate a gene set (SenMayo) and validate its enrichment in bone biopsies from two aged human cohorts. We further demonstrate reductions in SenMayo in bone following genetic clearance of senescent cells in mice and in adipose tissue from humans following pharmacological senescent cell clearance. We next use SenMayo to identify senescent hematopoietic or mesenchymal cells at the single cell level from human and murine bone marrow/bone scRNA-seq data. Thus, SenMayo identifies senescent cells across tissues and species with high fidelity. Using this senescence panel, we are able to characterize senescent cells at the single cell level and identify key intercellular signaling pathways. SenMayo also represents a potentially clinically applicable panel for monitoring senescent cell burden with aging and other conditions as well as in studies of senolytic drugs.
Keyphrases
- single cell
- induced apoptosis
- endothelial cells
- cell cycle arrest
- bone marrow
- genome wide
- adipose tissue
- rna seq
- signaling pathway
- dna damage
- stem cells
- gene expression
- cell death
- metabolic syndrome
- oxidative stress
- type diabetes
- high throughput
- dna methylation
- soft tissue
- stress induced
- bone regeneration
- ultrasound guided
- big data
- artificial intelligence
- data analysis
- bioinformatics analysis