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Systemic deficits in lipid homeostasis promote aging-associated impairments in B cell progenitor development.
Article in GeroScience, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- The Effects of Social Dance on Muscular Fitness and Longevity-Related Circulating Biomarkers in the Elderly.Journal of functional morphology and kinesiology · 2026Article
- Hematopoietic Aging and Leukemia: Mechanistic and Therapeutic Insights.International journal of molecular sciences · 2026Review
- Engineering Immune Cell to Counteract Aging and Aging-Associated Diseases.Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany) · 2026Review
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Abstract
Organismal aging has been associated with diverse metabolic and functional changes across tissues. Within the immune system, key features of physiological hematopoietic cell aging include increased fat deposition in the bone marrow, impaired hematopoietic stem and progenitor cell (HSPC) function, and a propensity towards myeloid differentiation. This shift in lineage bias can lead to pre-malignant bone marrow conditions such as clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) or clonal cytopenias of undetermined significance (CCUS), frequently setting the stage for subsequent development of age-related cancers in myeloid or lymphoid lineages. Human aging has also been associated with diverse lipid alterations across tissues, such as decreased phospholipid membrane fluidity that arises as a result of increased saturated fatty acid (FA) accumulation and a decay in n-3 polyunsaturated fatty acid (PUFA) species by the age of 80 years, however the extent to which impaired FA metabolism contributes to hematopoietic aging is less clear. Here, comprehensive multi-omics analyses uncovered a role for a key PUFA biosynthesis gene, ELOVL2, in mouse and human immune cell aging. Whole transcriptome RNA-sequencing studies and complementary flow cytometric analyses of bone marrow from aged Elovl2 mutant (enzyme-deficient) mice compared with age-matched controls revealed global downregulation in lymphoid cell markers and expression of genes involved specifically in B cell development. These studies unveiled CD79B, a vital molecular regulator of lymphoid progenitor development from the pro-B to pre-B cell stage, as a putative surface biomarker whose loss is associated with accelerated immune aging. The lipidome of mutant versus wild-type mice also displayed significant changes in the biophysical properties of cellular membranes. To investigate the relevance of these finding to human bone marrow aging, analyses of a single cell RNA-seq dataset of human HSPCs across the spectrum of human development and aging uncovered a rare subpopulation (< 7%) of CD34
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