Nature Communications (Dec 2019)

CSB promoter downregulation via histone H3 hypoacetylation is an early determinant of replicative senescence

  • Clément Crochemore,
  • Cristina Fernández-Molina,
  • Benjamin Montagne,
  • Audrey Salles,
  • Miria Ricchetti

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13314-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Senescence of metabolically active cells is a process linked to ageing. Here the authors reveal that CSB is required to block replicative senescence, and epigenetic control of CSB downregulation triggers proliferative arrest in a p21-dependent manner.