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ArticleAging cell2025

Large-Scale Clustered Transcriptional Silencing Associated With Cellular Senescence.

Aditi U Gurkar, Satoshi Okawa, Christelle Guillermier, Kritika Chaddha, Matthew L Steinhauser

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Article in Aging cell, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 6 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Aditi U GurkarAging Institute of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-4338-0624
Satoshi OkawaCenter for Pulmonary Vascular Biology and Medicine, Pittsburgh Heart, Lung, and Blood Vascular Medicine Institute, Division of Cardiology, Department of Medicine, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and UPMC, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Christelle GuillermierCenter for Nanoimaging, Division of Genetics, Department of Medicine, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA.
Kritika ChaddhaAging Institute of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.
Matthew L SteinhauserAging Institute of UPMC and the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA.

Funding

TriState SenNET (Lung and Heart) Tissue Map and Atlas consortiumU54AG075931 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI TOREN FINKEL, Melanie Koenigshoff · 2021 to 2026
$14.0M
Mapping the cell specific DNA damage-induced molecular and bioelectrical responses in the 3D cardiac unitR01HL161106 · NHLBI · CARNEGIE-MELLON UNIVERSITY · PI Tzahi Cohen-Karni, Aditi U Gurkar · 2022 to 2026
$3.1M
Telomere dysfunction driven molecular outputs in the cardiac unitR01ES035733 · NIEHS · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI Aditi U Gurkar · 2024 to 2026
$1.7M
Spatial Acetyl-CoA metabolism as a regulator of Hallmarks of AgingR56AG082757 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH AT PITTSBURGH · PI GURKAR, ADITI U · 2023 to 2023
$387k
NHLBI NIH HHS R01 HL161106NIA NIH HHS R56 AG082757NIA NIH HHS U54 AG075931NIEHS NIH HHS R01 ES035733
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Senescence is a cell fate associated with age-related pathologies; however, senescence markers are not well-defined. Using single cell multi-isotope imaging mass spectrometry (MIMS), we identified hypercondensed, transcriptionally silent DNA globules in a senescence model induced by dysfunctional telomeres. This architectural phenomenon was associated with geographically clustered transcriptional repression across somatic chromosomes with over-representation of cell cycle genes. Senescence-stimuli was associated with a higher frequency of cells that exhibited geographically concentrated transcriptional repression relative to control cells. This phenomenon was also observed in multiple other senescence models, including replicative senescence and irradiation. We further identified an enrichment of common pathways in all models of senescence, suggesting a common cellular response to this silencing phenomenon. Such large-scale clustered silencing of chromosomal segments rather than individual genes may explain senescence heterogeneity and a putative trajectory toward deep, irreversible senescence.

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Cellular SenescenceGene SilencingTranscription, GeneticHumansTelomereagingcellular senescenceimaging mass spectrometryscRNA‐seqtranscription

Identifiers

PMID39968744
PMCPMC11984675

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