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ReviewContemporary oncology (Poznan, Poland)2025

LINE-1 retrotransposon activation drives age-associated inflammation

Arshad Mehmood, Yue Zhu Xue, Habab Merghani Yassin, Mohammad Zubair, Syed Adnan Rahmat, Aftab Ahmad

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Review in Contemporary oncology (Poznan, Poland), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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5 · Who and what money

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6 authors.

Arshad MehmoodDepartment of Neurology, The Second Hospital of Hebei Medical University, Shijiazhuang 050000, Hebei, China.
Yue Zhu XueClinical Laboratory, Hebei General Hospital, Shijiazhuang 050051, Hebei, China.
Habab Merghani YassinDepartment of Biology, College of Science, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia.
Mohammad ZubairDepartment of Medical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, Saudi Arabia.
Syed Adnan RahmatCancer Institute, The Fourth Hospital of Hebei Medical University/The Tumour Hospital of Hebei Province, Shijiazhuang, China.
Aftab AhmadResearch Centre, Hebei Medical University Fourth Affiliated Hospital and Hebei Provincial Tumour Hospital, Shijiazhuang, Hebei Province 050011, China.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Retrotransposable elements are harmful at several levels, and host surveillance systems fail to consider all these elements in severe effects. The key role of retrotransposon in aging and age-associated diseases remains unclear. We summarise whether LINE-1 retrotransposable elements transcriptio-nally derepress and activate type-I interferon response during cellular senescence. Type-I interferon response is the late senescence phenotype that maintains the senescence-associated secretory phenotype. Cytoplasmic LINE-1 cDNA activates type-I interferon response, while LINE-1 reverse transcriptase inhibitors suppress it. The nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor lamivudine downregulates activation of type-I interferon and age- associated inflammation in tissues in the treatment of aging. Activation of retrotransposons is a key factor in sterile inflammation, which is a hallmark of aging, and LINE-1 reverse trans-criptase is an important target for the treatment of age-associated diseases. Nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitor lamivudine downregulates activation of type-I interferon and age-associated inflammation.

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aginginflammationLINE-1type-I interferon

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PMID41098867
PMCPMC12518201

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