Winstanley Yasmyn E, Rose Ryan D, Sobinoff Alexander P, Wu Linda L, Adhikari Deepak, Zhang Qing-Hua, Wells Jadon K, Wong Lee H, Szeto Hazel H, Piltz Sandra G, Thomas Paul Q, Febbraio Mark A, Carroll John, Pickett Hilda A, Russell Darryl L, Robker Rebecca L
Robinson Research Institute, School of Biomedicine, The University of Adelaide, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Genea Fertility SA, St. Andrews Hospital, Adelaide, SA, Australia.
Nat Commun. 2025 Mar 14;16(1):2527. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-57794-7.
The initial setting of telomere length during early life in each individual has a major influence on lifetime risk of aging-associated diseases; however there is limited knowledge of biological signals that regulate inheritance of telomere length, and whether it is modifiable is not known. We now show that when mitochondrial activity is disrupted in mouse zygotes, via exposure to 20% O or rotenone, telomere elongation between the 8-cell and blastocyst stage is impaired, with shorter telomeres apparent in the pluripotent Inner Cell Mass (ICM) and persisting after organogenesis. Identical defects of elevated mtROS in zygotes followed by impaired telomere elongation, occurred with maternal obesity or advanced age. We further demonstrate that telomere elongation during ICM formation is controlled by mitochondrial-nuclear communication at fertilization. Using mitochondrially-targeted therapeutics (BGP-15, MitoQ, SS-31, metformin) we demonstrate that it is possible to modulate the preimplantation telomere resetting process and restore deficiencies in neonatal telomere length.
个体生命早期端粒长度的初始设定对与衰老相关疾病的终生风险有重大影响;然而,对于调节端粒长度遗传的生物信号了解有限,而且其是否可改变尚不清楚。我们现在表明,当通过暴露于20%氧气或鱼藤酮使小鼠受精卵中的线粒体活性受到干扰时,8细胞期和囊胚期之间的端粒延长会受损,在多能内细胞团(ICM)中可明显看到端粒更短,并且在器官发生后仍然存在。受精卵中mtROS升高继而端粒延长受损的相同缺陷,在母体肥胖或高龄时也会出现。我们进一步证明,ICM形成过程中的端粒延长是由受精时的线粒体-核通讯控制的。使用线粒体靶向治疗药物(BGP-15、MitoQ、SS-31、二甲双胍),我们证明有可能调节植入前端粒重置过程并恢复新生儿端粒长度的缺陷。
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