Senescence suppresses the integrated stress response and activates a stress-remodeled secretory phenotype.

ABSTRACT: Senescence is a state of indefinite cell-cycle arrest associated with aging, cancer, and age-related diseases. Here, we find that translational deregulation, together with a corresponding maladaptive integrated stress response (ISR), is a hallmark of senescence that desensitizes senescent cells to stress. We present evidence that senescent cells maintain high levels of eIF2α phosphorylation, typical of ISR activation, but translationally repress production of the stress response activating transcription factor 4 (ATF4) by ineffective bypass of the inhibitory upstream open reading frames (uORFs). Surprisingly, ATF4 translation remains inhibited even after acute proteotoxic and amino acid starvation stressors, resulting in a highly diminished stress response. We also find that stress augment

SUBMITTER: Payea MJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11585442 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature