期刊
TOXICOLOGICAL SCIENCES
卷 166, 期 1, 页码 16-24出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/toxsci/kfy181
关键词
astrocyte; cellular senescence; iPSC; senescent-associated beta-golactosidase; neurotoxicant screening
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资金
- NIEHS [R21 ES025641]
- Ellison Senior Scholar in Aging Award
- NRSA Institutional Postdoctoral Training Grant (T32)
Cellular senescence is a tumor-suppressive mechanism which leads to near irreversible proliferative arrest. However, senescent cells can cause tissue dysfunction, in large part because they express a senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP) involving secretion of, amongst other factors, proinflammatory cytokines known to compromise neuronal health. Therefore, established neurotoxicants may cause neurotoxicity in vivo, in part by triggering mitotic cells in the brain to undergo senescence and adopt an inflammatory SASP which in turn could cause deleterious effects to surrounding neurons. To begin to address this hypothesis, we examined whether we could screen known neurotoxicants for their ability to cause astrocytes (a mitotic cell type especially important for maintaining neuronal health) to undergo senescence. For this purpose, we utilized inducible pluripotent stem cell-derived human astrocytes and screened an 80 compound neurotoxicant library provided by the Biomolecular Screening Branch of the NIEHS National Toxicology Program. Here we present a screening method based on induction of the senescent marker, senescent-associated beta-galactosidase (SA-b-gal). We describe in detail an automated method for the unbiased quantitation of percentage of SA-b-gal thorn astrocytes. Although our results suggest that conducting an SA-b-gal senescence screen using human inducible pluripotent stem cellderived astrocytes may be feasible, they also highlight challenges that likely preclude its adaptation to high-throughput. We also explore the possibility of using primary mouse astrocytes for this purpose and explain why this platform is problematic and very unlikely to yield meaningful results, even in small screens with compound replicates.
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