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Age-related GSK3β overexpression drives podocyte senescence and glomerular aging

As life expectancy continues to increase, clinicians are challenged by age-related renal impairment that involves podocyte senescence and glomerulosclerosis. There is now compelling evidence that lithium has a potent antiaging activity that ameliorates brain aging and increases longevity in Drosophi...

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Autores principales: Fang, Yudong, Chen, Bohan, Liu, Zhangsuo, Gong, Athena Y., Gunning, William T., Ge, Yan, Malhotra, Deepak, Gohara, Amira F., Dworkin, Lance D., Gong, Rujun
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Society for Clinical Investigation 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8843754/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35166234
http://dx.doi.org/10.1172/JCI141848
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Sumario:As life expectancy continues to increase, clinicians are challenged by age-related renal impairment that involves podocyte senescence and glomerulosclerosis. There is now compelling evidence that lithium has a potent antiaging activity that ameliorates brain aging and increases longevity in Drosophila and Caenorhabditis elegans. As the major molecular target of lithium action and a multitasking protein kinase recently implicated in a variety of renal diseases, glycogen synthase kinase 3β (GSK3β) is overexpressed and hyperactive with age in glomerular podocytes, correlating with functional and histological signs of kidney aging. Moreover, podocyte-specific ablation of GSK3β substantially attenuated podocyte senescence and glomerular aging in mice. Mechanistically, key mediators of senescence signaling, such as p16(INK4A) and p53, contain high numbers of GSK3β consensus motifs, physically interact with GSK3β, and act as its putative substrates. In addition, therapeutic targeting of GSK3β by microdose lithium later in life reduced senescence signaling and delayed kidney aging in mice. Furthermore, in psychiatric patients, lithium carbonate therapy inhibited GSK3β activity and mitigated senescence signaling in urinary exfoliated podocytes and was associated with preservation of kidney function. Thus, GSK3β appears to play a key role in podocyte senescence by modulating senescence signaling and may be an actionable senostatic target to delay kidney aging.