Pulmonary Alveolar Stem Cell Senescence, Apoptosis, and Differentiation by p53-Dependent and -Independent Mechanisms in Telomerase-Deficient Mice
Pulmonary premature ageing and fibrogenesis as in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) occur with the DNA damage response in lungs deficient of telomerase. The molecular mechanism mediating pulmonary alveolar cell fates remains to be investigated. The present study shows that naturally occurring agei...
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MDPI AG
2021
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| Sumario: | Pulmonary premature ageing and fibrogenesis as in idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) occur with the DNA damage response in lungs deficient of telomerase. The molecular mechanism mediating pulmonary alveolar cell fates remains to be investigated. The present study shows that naturally occurring ageing is associated with the DNA damage response (DDR) and activation of the p53 signalling pathway. Telomerase deficiency induced by telomerase RNA component (TERC) knockout (KO) accelerates not only replicative senescence but also altered differentiation and apoptosis of the pulmonary alveolar stem cells (AEC2) in association with increased innate immune natural killer (NK) cells in <i>TERC</i> KO mice. <i>TERC</i> KO results in increased senescence-associated heterochromatin foci (SAHF) marker HP1γ, p21, p16, and apoptosis-associated cleaved caspase-3 in AEC2. However, additional deficiency of the tumour suppressor p53 in the <i>Trp53</i><sup>−/−</sup> allele of the late generation of <i>TERC</i> KO mice attenuates the increased senescent and apoptotic markers significantly. Moreover, p53 deficiency has no significant effect on the increased gene expression of <i>T1α</i> (a marker of terminal differentiated AEC1) in AEC2 of the late generation of <i>TERC</i> KO mice. These findings demonstrate that, in natural ageing or premature ageing accelerated by telomere shortening, pulmonary senescence and IPF develop with alveolar stem cell p53-dependent premature replicative senescence, apoptosis, and p53-independent differentiation, resulting in pulmonary senescence-associated low-grade inflammation (SALI). Our studies indicate a natural ageing-associated molecular mechanism of telomerase deficiency-induced telomere DDR and SALI in pulmonary ageing and IPF. |
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