Journal
AGING CELL
Volume 21, Issue 9, Pages -Publisher
WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/acel.13698
Keywords
arthritis; cartilage; single-cell gel electrophoresis
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- National Institutes of Health [R56 AG066911, RO1 AG044034]
- Rush University Klaus Kuettner Endowed Chair for Research on Osteoarthritis
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This study revealed a linear increase in DNA damage in chondrocytes with age, with OA chondrocytes showing more severe damage compared to normal cartilage. Most of the accumulated damage was in the form of strand breaks rather than alkali-labile base damage. Young chondrocytes required a higher dose of irradiation to replicate the DNA damage present in older chondrocytes.
It is known that chondrocytes from joints with osteoarthritis (OA) exhibit high levels of DNA damage, but the degree to which chondrocytes accumulate DNA damage during normal aging has not been established. The goal of this study was to quantify the DNA damage present in chondrocytes obtained from cadaveric donors of a wide age range, and to compare the extent of this damage to OA chondrocytes. The alkaline comet assay was used to measure the DNA damage in normal cartilage from the ankle (talus) and the knee (femur) of cadaveric donors, as well as in OA chondrocytes obtained at the time of total knee replacement. Chondrocytes from younger donors (<45 years) had less DNA damage than older donors (>70 years) as assessed by the percentage of DNA in the comet tail. In donors between 50 and 60 years old, there was increased DNA damage in chondrocytes from OA cartilage as compared to cadaveric. Talar chondrocytes from 23 donors between the ages of 34 and 78 revealed a linear increase in DNA damage with age (R-2 = 0.865, p < 0.0001). A two-tailed comet assay was used to demonstrate that most of the accumulated damage is in the form of strand breaks as opposed to alkali-labile base damage. Chondrocytes from young donors required 10 Gy irradiation to recapitulate the DNA damage present in chondrocytes from older donors. Given the potential for DNA damage to contribute to chondrocyte dysfunction and senescence, this study supports the investigation of mechanisms by which hypo-replicative cell types accumulate high levels of damage.
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