Division of Cellular Senescence, The Cancer Institute, Japanese Foundation for Cancer Research, Tokyo 135-8550, Japan.
Department of Computational Biology and Medical Sciences, Graduate School of Frontier Sciences, The University of Tokyo, Tokyo 113-8654, Japan.
Int J Mol Sci. 2023 Nov 16;24(22):16399. doi: 10.3390/ijms242216399.
Senescent cells secrete inflammatory proteins and small extracellular vesicles (sEVs), collectively termed senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP), and promote age-related diseases. Epigenetic alteration in senescent cells induces the expression of satellite II (SATII) RNA, non-coding RNA transcribed from pericentromeric repetitive sequences in the genome, leading to the expression of inflammatory SASP genes. SATII RNA is contained in sEVs and functions as an SASP factor in recipient cells. However, the molecular mechanism of SATII RNA loading into sEVs is unclear. In this study, we identified Y-box binding protein 1 (YBX1) as a carrier of SATII RNA via mass spectrometry analysis after RNA pull-down. sEVs containing SATII RNA induced cellular senescence and promoted the expression of inflammatory SASP genes in recipient cells. YBX1 knockdown significantly reduced SATII RNA levels in sEVs and inhibited the propagation of SASP in recipient cells. The analysis of the clinical dataset revealed that YBX1 expression is higher in cancer stroma than in normal stroma of breast and ovarian cancer tissues. Furthermore, high YBX1 expression was correlated with poor prognosis in breast and ovarian cancers. This study demonstrated that SATII RNA loading into sEVs is regulated via YBX1 and that YBX1 is a promising target in novel cancer therapy.
衰老细胞分泌炎症蛋白和小细胞外囊泡 (sEVs),统称为衰老相关分泌表型 (SASP),并促进与年龄相关的疾病。衰老细胞中的表观遗传改变诱导卫星 II (SATII) RNA 的表达,SATII RNA 是从基因组中着丝粒周围重复序列转录的非编码 RNA,导致炎症 SASP 基因的表达。SATII RNA 存在于 sEVs 中,并作为受体细胞中 SASP 因子发挥作用。然而,SATII RNA 加载到 sEVs 中的分子机制尚不清楚。在这项研究中,我们通过 RNA 下拉后的质谱分析鉴定出 Y 盒结合蛋白 1 (YBX1) 是 SATII RNA 的载体。含有 SATII RNA 的 sEVs 诱导细胞衰老,并促进受体细胞中炎症 SASP 基因的表达。YBX1 敲低显著降低了 sEV 中的 SATII RNA 水平,并抑制了受体细胞中 SASP 的传播。对临床数据集的分析表明,YBX1 在乳腺癌和卵巢癌组织的癌症基质中的表达高于正常基质。此外,高 YBX1 表达与乳腺癌和卵巢癌的不良预后相关。这项研究表明,SATII RNA 加载到 sEVs 是通过 YBX1 调节的,YBX1 是一种有前途的新型癌症治疗靶点。
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