Nature Communications (Feb 2019)

Macrophage achieves self-protection against oxidative stress-induced ageing through the Mst-Nrf2 axis

  • Ping Wang,
  • Jing Geng,
  • Jiahui Gao,
  • Hao Zhao,
  • Junhong Li,
  • Yiran Shi,
  • Bingying Yang,
  • Chen Xiao,
  • Yueyue Linghu,
  • Xiufeng Sun,
  • Xin Chen,
  • Lixin Hong,
  • Funiu Qin,
  • Xun Li,
  • Jau-Song Yu,
  • Han You,
  • Zengqiang Yuan,
  • Dawang Zhou,
  • Randy L. Johnson,
  • Lanfen Chen

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-08680-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 16

Abstract

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Immune cells produce reactive oxygen species (ROS) to eliminate pathogens, but cell-spontaneous death and ageing may also be induced. Here the authors show that, upon sensing ROS, Mst1/2 kinases modulate the activity of Nrf2 transcription factor and downstream genetic programs to protect mouse macrophages from death and ageing.