Choi Jinkuk, Artandi Steven
Department of Medicine, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA 94305, USA.
Cell Stem Cell. 2009 Jul 2;5(1):6-8. doi: 10.1016/j.stem.2009.06.006.
Stem cells age, but the underlying mechanisms remain unclear. In a recent issue of Cell, Inomata and colleagues (2009) show that DNA damage, a prime suspect in stem cell aging, causes graying and loss of melanocyte stem cells by inducing premature differentiation, without inducing apoptosis or senescence.
干细胞会衰老,但其潜在机制仍不清楚。在最近一期的《细胞》杂志上,猪俣及其同事(2009年)表明,DNA损伤是干细胞衰老的主要嫌疑因素,它通过诱导过早分化导致黑素细胞干细胞变白和丧失,而不会诱导细胞凋亡或衰老。