Abstract
Tissue resident adult stem cells are known to participate in tissue regeneration and repair that follows cell turnover, or injury. It has been well established that aging impedes the regeneration capabilities at the cellular level, but it is not clear if the different onset of stem cell aging between individuals can be predicted or prevented at an earlier stage. Here we studied the dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs), a population of adult stem cells that is known to participate in the repair of an injured tooth, and its properties can be affected by aging. The dental pulp from third molars of a diverse patient group were surgically extracted, generating cells that had a high percentage of mesenchymal stem cell markers CD29, CD44, CD146 and Stro1 and had the ability to differentiate into osteo/odontogenic and adipogenic lineages. Through RNA seq and qPCR analysis we identified homeobox protein, Barx1, as a marker for DPSCs. Furthermore, using high throughput transcriptomic and proteomic analysis we identified markers for DPSC populations with accelerated replicative senescence. In particular, we show that the transforming growth factor-beta (TGF-β) pathway and the cytoskeletal proteins are upregulated in rapid aging DPSCs, indicating a loss of stem cell characteristics and spontaneous initiation of terminal differentiation. Importantly, using metabolic flux analysis, we identified a metabolic signature for the rapid aging DPSCs, prior to manifestation of senescence phenotypes. This metabolic signature therefore can be used to predict the onset of replicative senescence. Hence, the present study identifies Barx1 as a DPSCs marker and dissects the first predictive metabolic signature for DPSCs aging.
| Original language | English |
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| Article number | 2195 |
| Journal | Scientific Reports |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue number | 1 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Dec 2019 |
| Externally published | Yes |
Funding
We thank the Ruohola-Baker lab, Dr. Ware and Dr. Davis for helpful discussion and Dr. Dodson, Dr. Popowics, Dr.Janebodin, UW dental clinic and patients who consented giving the extracted teeth for research purpose. We thank Luiza Carvalho, Ella Nestingen and Benjamin Baker for their help. This work is supported in part by the University of Washington\u2019s Proteomics Resource (UWPR95794). RTM is an Investigator of the HHMI. This work is supported in part by grants from CoMotion Innovation Fund, the National Institutes of Health R01GM097372, R01GM97372-03S1 and R01GM083867, 1P01GM081619 and the NHLBI Progenitor Cell Biology Consortium (U01HL099997; UO1HL099993) for HRB.
| Funders | Funder number |
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| H&R BLOCK | |
| CoMotion Innovation Fund | |
| National Institute of General Medical Sciences | R01GM097372, P01GM081619, R01GM083867 |
| University of Washington | UWPR95794 |
| National Institutes of Health | R01GM97372-03S1 |
| National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases | P30DK017047 |
| National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute | U01HL099997, U01HL099993 |
| UK Research and Innovation | 98052 |
Keywords
- Adipogenesis
- Biomarkers
- Cell Differentiation
- Cells, Cultured
- Cellular Senescence
- Dental Pulp/cytology
- Energy Metabolism
- Gene Expression Profiling
- Gene Expression Regulation, Developmental
- Humans
- Immunophenotyping
- Odontogenesis
- Osteogenesis
- Proteomics
- Signal Transduction
- Stem Cells/cytology
- Transcriptome