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Network Model to Predict Age-Related Transcriptional Reprogramming.
| Τίτλος: | Network Model to Predict Age-Related Transcriptional Reprogramming. |
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| Συγγραφείς: | McNeill TJ; Discovery Center for Musculoskeletal Recovery, Schoen Adams Research Institute at Spaulding, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.; John A. Paulson School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA., Ambrosio F; Discovery Center for Musculoskeletal Recovery, Schoen Adams Research Institute at Spaulding, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA., Iijima H; Discovery Center for Musculoskeletal Recovery, Schoen Adams Research Institute at Spaulding, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Spaulding Rehabilitation Hospital, Charlestown, Massachusetts, USA.; Department of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA. |
| Πηγή: | Aging cell [Aging Cell] 2026 Sep; Vol. 25 (9), pp. e70683. |
| Τύπος έκδοσης: | Journal Article |
| Γλώσσα: | English |
| Στοιχεία περιοδικού: | Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 101130839 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1474-9726 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 14749718 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Aging Cell Subsets: MEDLINE |
| Imprint Name(s): | Publication: Oxford, UK : Wiley-Blackwell Original Publication: Oxford, UK : Blackwell Pub., c2002- |
| Ιατρικοί όροι (MeSH): | Aging*/genetics , Cellular Reprogramming*/genetics, Chondrocytes/metabolism ; Animals ; Humans |
| Περίληψη: | Understanding how secreted factors from aged tissue, often referred to as the senescence-associated secretome, reshape cellular phenotypes remains a major challenge due to the complexity of downstream molecular cascades. Here, we present a computational framework for in silico perturbation modeling designed to predict distinct transcriptional responses to age-specific extracellular environmental cues. We exemplify applications of this framework using articular chondrocytes exposed to secretomes derived from infrapatellar fat pads-an integral component of the cartilage microenvironment-excised from the knee joints of young and aged animals. First, we accessed public transcriptomic data of cartilage from healthy and osteoarthritic knee joints and constructed a cartilage-specific co-expression network using topological overlap matrices, which measure network interconnectedness. We then implemented a Random Walk with Restart to simulate the downstream signal propagation of differentially expressed ligands secreted from young and aged infrapatellar fat pads. We benchmarked predicted perturbation signatures against RNA-seq data from aged chondrocytes treated in vitro with either young or aged infrapatellar fat pad-conditioned medium. Our evaluation pipeline included functional enrichment comparison and receiver operating characteristic analysis. These analyses confirmed that simulated perturbations recapitulated chondrocyte signaling pathways modulated by young and aged infrapatellar fat pad secretomes, including primary effects on mitochondrial respiration, a central hallmark of aging. The network paradigm introduced here provides a data-driven strategy to disentangle how complex, age-dependent extracellular environments influence cellular fate. Ultimately, we anticipate that this pipeline can be extended to diverse tissues and age-related diseases to guide the development of interventions that restore youthful cellular phenotypes. (© 2026 The Author(s). Aging Cell published by Anatomical Society and John Wiley & Sons Ltd.) |
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| Grant Information: | R01 AG089455 United States AG NIA NIH HHS; R01 AG090356 United States AG NIA NIH HHS; R01AG089455 United States NH NIH HHS; R01AG090356 United States NH NIH HHS |
| Contributed Indexing: | Keywords: cell communication; extracellular signaling; gene expression profiling; in silico simulation; osteoarthritis |
| Entry Date(s): | Date Created: 20260822 Date Completed: 20260822 Latest Revision: 20260825 |
| Update Code: | 20260825 |
| PubMed Central ID: | PMC13499505 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/acel.70683 |
| PMID: | 42631664 |
| Βάση Δεδομένων: | MEDLINE |
| ISSN: | 1474-9726 |
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| DOI: | 10.1111/acel.70683 |