Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada.
Centre de Recherche du Centre Hospitalier de l'Université de Montréal (CRCHUM), Montréal, Quebec, Canada.
Aging Cell. 2024 Nov;23(11):e14301. doi: 10.1111/acel.14301. Epub 2024 Aug 8.
Defects in the splicing machinery are implicated in various diseases, including cancer. We observed a general reduction in the expression of spliceosome components and splicing regulators in human cell lines undergoing replicative, stress-induced, and telomere uncapping-induced senescence. Supporting the view that defective splicing contributes to senescence, splicing inhibitors herboxidiene, and pladienolide B induced senescence in normal and cancer cell lines. Furthermore, depleting individual spliceosome components also promoted senescence. All senescence types were associated with an alternative splicing transition from the MDM4-FL variant to MDM4-S. The MDM4 splicing shift was reproduced when splicing was inhibited, and spliceosome components were depleted. While decreasing the level of endogenous MDM4 promoted senescence and cell survival independently of the MDM4-S expression status, cell survival was also improved by increasing MDM4-S. Overall, our work establishes that splicing defects modulate the alternative splicing of MDM4 to promote senescence and cell survival.
剪接机制的缺陷与各种疾病有关,包括癌症。我们观察到在经历复制性、应激诱导和端粒去帽诱导衰老的人类细胞系中,剪接体成分和剪接调节剂的表达普遍降低。支持剪接缺陷导致衰老的观点,剪接抑制剂海兔毒素和 pladienolide B 在正常和癌细胞系中诱导衰老。此外,耗尽单个剪接体成分也促进了衰老。所有类型的衰老都与 MDM4-FL 变体到 MDM4-S 的可变剪接转换有关。当抑制剪接并耗尽剪接体成分时,会再现 MDM4 剪接转变。虽然降低内源性 MDM4 水平可以独立于 MDM4-S 表达状态促进衰老和细胞存活,但增加 MDM4-S 也可以改善细胞存活。总的来说,我们的工作表明剪接缺陷调节 MDM4 的可变剪接以促进衰老和细胞存活。