Pro-ferroptotic signaling promotes arterial aging via vascular smooth muscle cell senescence

Abstract Senescence of vascular smooth muscle cells (VSMCs) contributes to aging-related cardiovascular diseases by promoting arterial remodelling and stiffness. Ferroptosis is a novel type of regulated cell death associated with lipid oxidation. Here, we show that pro-ferroptosis signaling drives VSMCs senescence to accelerate vascular NAD+ loss, remodelling and aging. Pro-ferroptotic signaling is triggered in senescent VSMCs and arteries of aged mice. Furthermore, the activation of pro-ferroptotic signaling in VSMCs not only induces NAD+ loss and senescence but also promotes the release of a pro-senescent secretome. Pharmacological or genetic inhibition of pro-ferroptosis signaling, ameliorates VSMCs senescence, reduces vascular stiffness and retards the progression of abdominal aortic aneurysm in mice. Mechanistically, we revealed that inhibition of pro-ferroptotic signaling facilitates the nuclear-cytoplasmic shuttling of proliferator-activated receptor-γ and, thereby impeding nuclear receptor coactivator 4-ferrtin complex-centric ferritinophagy. Finally, the activated pro-ferroptotic signaling correlates with arterial stiffness in a human proof-of-concept study. These findings have significant implications for future therapeutic strategies aiming to eliminate vascular ferroptosis in senescence- or aging-associated cardiovascular diseases..

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E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2024

Erschienen:

2024

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:15

Enthalten in:

Nature Communications - 15(2024), 1, Seite 22

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Di-Yang Sun [VerfasserIn]
Wen-Bin Wu [VerfasserIn]
Jian-Jin Wu [VerfasserIn]
Yu Shi [VerfasserIn]
Jia-Jun Xu [VerfasserIn]
Shen-Xi Ouyang [VerfasserIn]
Chen Chi [VerfasserIn]
Yi Shi [VerfasserIn]
Qing-Xin Ji [VerfasserIn]
Jin-Hao Miao [VerfasserIn]
Jiang-Tao Fu [VerfasserIn]
Jie Tong [VerfasserIn]
Ping-Ping Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Jia-Bao Zhang [VerfasserIn]
Zhi-Yong Li [VerfasserIn]
Le-Feng Qu [VerfasserIn]
Fu-Ming Shen [VerfasserIn]
Dong-Jie Li [VerfasserIn]
Pei Wang [VerfasserIn]

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doi:

10.1038/s41467-024-45823-w

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