Nature Communications (Jul 2018)

FoxM1 repression during human aging leads to mitotic decline and aneuploidy-driven full senescence

  • Joana Catarina Macedo,
  • Sara Vaz,
  • Bjorn Bakker,
  • Rui Ribeiro,
  • Petra Lammigje Bakker,
  • Jose Miguel Escandell,
  • Miguel Godinho Ferreira,
  • René Medema,
  • Floris Foijer,
  • Elsa Logarinho

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05258-6
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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Evidence for mitotic decline in aged cells and for aneuploidy-driven progression into full senescence is limited. Here, the authors find that in aged cells, mitotic gene repression leads to increased chromosome mis-segregation and aneuploidy that triggers permanent cell cycle arrest and full senescence.