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PGC-1α Modulates Telomere Function and DNA Damage in Protecting against Aging-Related Chronic Diseases

Overview of attention for article published in Cell Reports, August 2015
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Title
PGC-1α Modulates Telomere Function and DNA Damage in Protecting against Aging-Related Chronic Diseases
Published in
Cell Reports, August 2015
DOI 10.1016/j.celrep.2015.07.047
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Authors

Shiqin Xiong, Nikolay Patrushev, Farshad Forouzandeh, Lula Hilenski, R. Wayne Alexander

Abstract

Cellular senescence and organismal aging predispose age-related chronic diseases, such as neurodegenerative, metabolic, and cardiovascular disorders. These diseases emerge coincidently from elevated oxidative/electrophilic stress, inflammation, mitochondrial dysfunction, DNA damage, and telomere dysfunction and shortening. Mechanistic linkages are incompletely understood. Here, we show that ablation of peroxisome proliferator-activated receptor γ coactivator-1α (PGC-1α) accelerates vascular aging and atherosclerosis, coinciding with telomere dysfunction and shortening and DNA damage. PGC-1α deletion reduces expression and activity of telomerase reverse transcriptase (TERT) and increases p53 levels. Ectopic expression of PGC-1α coactivates TERT transcription and reverses telomere malfunction and DNA damage. Furthermore, alpha lipoic acid (ALA), a non-dispensable mitochondrial cofactor, upregulates PGC-1α-dependent TERT and the cytoprotective Nrf-2-mediated antioxidant/electrophile-responsive element (ARE/ERE) signaling cascades, and counteracts high-fat-diet-induced, age-dependent arteriopathy. These results illustrate the pivotal importance of PGC-1α in ameliorating senescence, aging, and associated chronic diseases, and may inform novel therapeutic approaches involving electrophilic specificity.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United Kingdom 2 2%
Germany 1 1%
Unknown 93 97%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Researcher 18 19%
Student > Ph. D. Student 16 17%
Student > Master 12 13%
Student > Bachelor 11 11%
Other 9 9%
Other 18 19%
Unknown 12 13%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 37 39%
Medicine and Dentistry 17 18%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 16 17%
Neuroscience 3 3%
Environmental Science 1 1%
Other 7 7%
Unknown 15 16%
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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 84. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 07 July 2021.
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#506,019
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#997
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