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- Title
Pro-ferroptotic signaling promotes arterial aging via vascular smooth muscle cell senescence.
- Authors
Sun, Di-Yang; Wu, Wen-Bin; Wu, Jian-Jin; Shi, Yu; Xu, Jia-Jun; Ouyang, Shen-Xi; Chi, Chen; Shi, Yi; Ji, Qing-Xin; Miao, Jin-Hao; Fu, Jiang-Tao; Tong, Jie; Zhang, Ping-Ping; Zhang, Jia-Bao; Li, Zhi-Yong; Qu, Le-Feng; Shen, Fu-Ming; Li, Dong-Jie; Wang, Pei
- Abstract
Senescence of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) contributes to aging-related cardiovascular diseases by promoting arterial remodelling and stiffness. Ferroptosis is a novel type of regulated cell death associated with lipid oxidation. Here, we show that pro-ferroptosis signaling drives VSMCs senescence to accelerate vascular NAD+ loss, remodelling and aging. Pro-ferroptotic signaling is triggered in senescent VSMCs and arteries of aged mice. Furthermore, the activation of pro-ferroptotic signaling in VSMCs not only induces NAD+ loss and senescence but also promotes the release of a pro-senescent secretome. Pharmacological or genetic inhibition of pro-ferroptosis signaling, ameliorates VSMCs senescence, reduces vascular stiffness and retards the progression of abdominal aortic aneurysm in mice. Mechanistically, we revealed that inhibition of pro-ferroptotic signaling facilitates the nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling of proliferator-activated receptor-γ and, thereby impeding nuclear receptor coactivator 4-ferrtin complex-centric ferritinophagy. Finally, the activated pro-ferroptotic signaling correlates with arterial stiffness in a human proof-of-concept study. These findings have significant implications for future therapeutic strategies aiming to eliminate vascular ferroptosis in senescence- or aging-associated cardiovascular diseases. Ferroptosis is a novel form of regulated cell death associated with lipid oxidation. Here, the authors demonstrate that the proferroptosis signal is activated and drives vascular aging by inducing senescence in vascular smooth muscle cells.
- Subjects
VASCULAR smooth muscle; CELLULAR aging; MUSCLE cells; ABDOMINAL aortic aneurysms; AGING; NUCLEAR receptors (Biochemistry)
- Publication
Nature Communications, 2024, Vol 15, Issue 1, p1
- ISSN
2041-1723
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1038/s41467-024-45823-w