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Team develops new gene therapy to extend lifespan
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Aging and lifespan, the goals of much scientific research. The most recent identifies a gene therapy that could also work in humans

Gianluca Ricciodi Gianluca Riccio
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Cellular senescence, a state of permanent growth arrest, has emerged as a hallmark and fundamental driver of the organism's aging.

Cellular senescence is regulated by both genetic and epigenetic factors, not all of which are clear to science. There is no systematic investigation into the intervention of these genes that leads to an effective gene therapy against aging and related diseases, to extend the life span.

How many aging-promoting genes are there in the human genome? What are the molecular mechanisms by which these genes regulate aging? Can gene therapy alleviate individual aging?

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Prof. Wei Wang, first author of the research

Recently, researchers from the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS) Zoology Institute, Peking University and the CAS Beijing Genomics Institute collaborated to identify new genes that contribute to human senescence.

The screening system used is the now known CRISPR. The goal: to provide a new approach for gene therapy against aging.

In this study, the researchers observed human stem cells aging prematurely and identified more than 100 senescence-promoting genes.

They then "inactivated" as with a switch each of the first 50 genes "suspected" of contributing to cell rejuvenation to verify the effect.

KAT7

Among them, the KAT7 gene has been identified as a major target for alleviating cellular senescence. Increased in human mesenchymal cells during physiological and pathological aging. The exhaustion of KAT7 attenuates cellular senescence, its overexpression instead accelerates it.

Mechanically, inactivation of KAT7 reduced histone H14 lysine 3 acetylation, repressed transcription of p15INK4b, and rejuvenated senescent human stem cells.

Cumulative studies have described that age-associated accumulation of senescent cells and proinflammatory cells in tissues and organs contributes to the development and progression ofaging and disorders related to aging. In mice, the ablation of senescent cells mitigates tissue degeneration and prolongs the span of health in mice.

The proven gene therapy

In this study, the researchers found that intravenous injection of a lentiviral vector encoding Cas9 / sg-KAT7 reduced the proportions of senescent cells and proinflammatory cells in the liver, decreased secretory phenotype factors associated with circulatory senescence (SASP ) in the serum and extended quality and lifespan of aged mice.

These results suggest that gene therapy based on the inactivation of a single factor may be sufficient to extend lifespan (at least in mice, for now).

Is it gene therapy on humans? We are getting there.

The researchers also found that treatment with the lentiviral vector encoding Cas9 / sg-KAT7 or a KAT7 WM-3835 inhibitor relieves human hepatocyte senescence and reduces the expression of SASP genes, suggesting that these interventions can also be applied in clinical settings with targeted gene therapy.

Overall, this study conceptually demonstrated that gene therapy based on the inactivation of a single factor is capable of delaying individual aging.

This study not only deepens our understanding of the aging mechanism, but also provides new potential targets for gene therapy that extends lifespan.

Reference: “Genome-wide CRISPR-Based Screen Identifies KAT7 as a Driver of Cellular Senescence,” January 6, 2021, Science Translational Medicine.
DOI: 10.1126 / scitranslmed.abd2655

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