The Piwi-piRNA pathway: road to immortality.

Abstract:

:Despite its medical, social, and economic significance, understanding what primarily causes aging, that is, the mechanisms of the aging process, remains a fundamental and fascinating problem in biology. Accumulating evidence indicates that a small RNA-based gene regulatory machinery, the Piwi-piRNA pathway, represents a shared feature of nonaging (potentially immortal) biological systems, including the germline, somatic cancer stem cells, and certain 'lower' eukaryotic organisms like the planarian flatworm and freshwater hydra. The pathway primarily functions to repress the activity of mobile genetic elements, also called transposable elements (TEs) or 'jumping genes', which are capable of moving from one genomic locus to another, thereby causing insertional mutations. TEs become increasingly active and multiply in the genomes of somatic cells as the organism ages. These characteristics of TEs highlight their decisive mutagenic role in the progressive disintegration of genetic information, a molecular hallmark associated with aging. Hence, TE-mediated genomic instability may substantially contribute to the aging process.

journal_name

Aging Cell

journal_title

Aging cell

authors

Sturm Á,Perczel A,Ivics Z,Vellai T

doi

10.1111/acel.12630

subject

Has Abstract

pub_date

2017-10-01 00:00:00

pages

906-911

issue

5

eissn

1474-9718

issn

1474-9726

journal_volume

16

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