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Hallmarks of Aging Miniseries No. 4 Loss of Proteostasis

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As cells age, environmental stresses add up and mechanisms responsible for maintaining proper protein composition start to decline. Proteins lose their stability, autophagic processes start to fail, and misfolded proteins accumulate.

Over the years, our bodies are subjected to many environmental inputs that put thermal stress, oxidative stress, and osmotic stress on our cells, causing misfolding of proteins. For example, free radicals present in polluted air have been identified as particularly noxious agents in this regard, contributing to multiple aging-related pathologies. In younger cells, micro- and macroautophagy pathways, together with the ubiquitin-proteasome system, take care of clearing these unfolded proteins. However, in aging cells, autophagy induction can be gradually compromised, and lysosomes become less efficient at eliminating the vesicles carrying this cellular waste.

In a vicious cycle termed “inflammaging,” this decrease in efficient autophagy results in an increase in intracellular ROS, triggering the damage-sensing inflammasome to generate low levels of chronic inflammation, further accelerating aging.

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The GFP-LC3 displays a diffuse nuclear and cytosolic distribution in fed cells, and a punctate distribution in starved autophagic cells.
HeLa cells were transduced with LentiBrite™ GFP-LC3 lentiviral particles and were either (A) left in complete media or (B) incubated in EBSS containing a lysosome inhibitor under starvation conditions. The GFP-LC3 displays a diffuse nuclear and cytosolic distribution in fed cells, and a punctate distribution in starved autophagic cells. (Click to enlarge)
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Timecourse imaging of HT-1080 cells after transduction with LentiBrite GFP-LC3 and the addition of a lysosomal inhibitor under starvation conditions. GFP-LC3 displays a diffuse nuclear and cytosolic distribution in fed cells, and a punctate distribution in starved, autophagic cells.



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LentiBrite™ GFP-LC3 Lentiviral Biosensor 17-10193
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LentiBrite™ GFP-LC3 Control Mutant Lentiviral Biosensor 17-10189
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LentiBrite™ GFP-p62 Lentiviral Biosensor 17-10224
LentiBrite™ RFP-p62 Lentiviral Biosensor 17-10404


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