senolytic drugs - 노화된 세포의 apoptosis를 선택적으로 유도하는 약물

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beyond reason

anti-aging이라는 말에는 모순이 존재한다. 

세포가 죽지않고 무한증식하는 질환이 암이다. 

senescent cell(늙은 세포)는 적절하게 잘 죽어야 한다(efferocytosis)

senolytic drugs

senolytic agents

노화된 세포의 사멸을 선택적으로 유도하는 약물, 보충제

아래 논문은 노화된 세포의 사멸을 선택적으로 유도하는 약물, 보충제의 치료기전에 관한 내용이다.....

Navitoclax (previously ABT-263) is an experimental orally active anti-cancer drug, which is a Bcl-2 inhibitor similar in action to obatoclax. Mechanism of action[edit] Navitoclax inhibits not only Bcl-2, but also Bcl-XL and Bcl-w proteins.[3] Because navitoclax inhibits Bcl-XL, it reduces platelet lifespan, causing thrombocytopenia, and this makes it dose-limiting.

J Am Geriatr Soc. Author manuscript; available in PMC 2018 Oct 1.

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J Am Geriatr Soc. 2017 Oct; 65(10): 2297–2301.

Published online 2017 Sep 4. doi: 10.1111/jgs.14969

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The Clinical Potential of Senolytic Drugs

James L. Kirkland, MD, PhD,* Tamara Tchkonia, PhD,* Yi Zhu, PhD,* Laura J. Niedernhofer, MD, PhD,‡ and Paul D. Robbins, PhD‡

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Abstract

Senolytic drugs are agents that selectively induce apoptosis of senescent cells. These cells accumulate in many tissues with aging and at sites of pathology in multiple chronic diseases. In studies in animals, targeting senescent cells using genetic or pharmacological approaches delays, prevents, or alleviates multiple age-related phenotypes, chronic diseases, geriatric syndromes, and loss of physiological resilience. Among the chronic conditions successfully treated by depleting senescent cells in pre-clinical studies are frailty, cardiac dysfunction, vascular hyporeactivity and calcification, diabetes, liver steatosis, osteoporosis, vertebral disk degeneration, pulmonary fibrosis, and radiation-induced damage.

Senolytic agents are at the point of being tested in proof-of-concept clinical trials. To do so, new clinical trials paradigms for testing senolytics and other agents that target fundamental aging mechanisms are being developed, since use of long-term endpoints such as life- or healthspan is not feasible.

These strategies include testing effects on multi-morbidity, accelerated aging-like conditions, diseases with localized accumulation of senescent cells, potentially fatal diseases associated with senescent cell accumulation, age-related loss of physiological resilience, and frailty. If senolytics or other interventions that target fundamental aging processes prove to be effective and safe in clinical trials, they could transform geriatric medicine by enabling prevention or treatment of multiple diseases and functional deficits in parallel, instead of one-at-a-time.

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Introduction

Chronological aging is the leading predictor of the major chronic diseases that account for the bulk of morbidity, mortality, and health costs worldwide. These include diabetes, cardiovascular disease, most cancers, dementias, other neurodegenerative diseases, arthritis, osteoporosis, blindness, and many others1. Aging also predisposes to geriatric syndromes, including frailty, weakness, reduced mobility, mild cognitive impairment, and incontinence, as well as loss of physiological resilience2. This loss of resilience leads to prolonged recovery after illnesses such as pneumonia or myocardial infarction, impaired ability to withstand interventions such as chemotherapy or surgery, and an attenuated response to vaccination. Furthermore, age-related chronic diseases, geriatric syndromes, and disabilities tend to cluster within individuals, leading to “multi-morbidity”3. This supports the concept that fundamental aging processes not only cause aging phenotypes, but also predispose to chronic diseases and the geriatric syndromes. Thus, therapeutically targeting these processes are predicted to delay, prevent, or alleviate age-related chronic diseases and disabilities as a group, instead of one-at-a-time, the “geroscience hypothesis”.

The biological processes that underlie aging phenotypes and are also active at the nidus of most chronic diseases include: 1) chronic, low-grade, “sterile” (absence of known pathogens) inflammation; 2) macromolecular and organelle dysfunction (e.g., changes in DNA [telomere erosion, unrepaired damage, mutations, polyploidy, etc.], proteins [aggregation, misfolding, autophagy, etc.], carbohydrates, lipids, or mitochondria); 3) stem and progenitor cell dysfunction; and 4) increased burden of senescent cells. These four processes are linked, i.e., in general, interventions that target one process also attenuate the others. For example, increased DNA damage causes increased senescent cell burden and mitochondrial and stem/progenitor cell dysfunction4-6. Conversely, reducing senescent cell burden can lead to reduced inflammation, decreased macromolecular dysregulation, and enhanced function of stem and progenitor cells7-9.

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Cellular Senescence and the Senescence-Associated Secretory Phenotype (SASP)

Senescence is a cell fate that involves loss of proliferative potential of normally replication-competent cells, resistance to apoptosis, increased metabolic activity, and frequently the development of a senescence-associated secretory phenotype (SASP). The SASP entails release of pro-inflammatory cytokines and chemokines, tissue-damaging proteases, factors that can impact stem and progenitor cell function, hemostatic factors, and growth factors, among others7. Senescent cells that express the SASP can have substantial local and systemic pathogenic effects. For example, transplanting small numbers of senescent cells around the knee joints of mice induces an osteoporosis-like condition resembling the non-injury-related osteoarthritis common in elderly humans10. Senescent cells also undergo metabolic shifts, including reduced fatty acid utilization, increased glycolysis, and increased reactive oxygen species (ROS) generation, which can affect other cells and even spread senescence to nearby cells11.

Markers of senescent cells include increases in cell size, lipofuscin accumulation, high expression‎ of the cell cycle regulator, p16INK4A, p21CIP1, and SASP factors (e.g., IL-6, IL-8, monocyte chemoattractant protein-1, plasminogen-activated inhibitor-1, and many others), increased cellular senescence-associated β-galactosidase (SA-βgal) activity, and appearance of senescent-associated distension of satellites (SADS) and telomere-associated DNA damage foci (TAFs), among others. None of these markers are fully sensitive or specific, so combinations of them are needed to draw conclusions about effects of diseases or interventions on senescent cell numbers.

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Eliminating Senescent Cells from Transgenic “Suicide Gene”-Expressing Mice

Senescent cells increase with aging in mice, monkeys, and humans12-15 and interventions that increase lifespan, including caloric restriction or mutations in the growth hormone axis, are associated with decreased senescent cell abundance12, 16. These observations led us to devise a strategy for making transgenic INK-ATTAC mice, from which senescent cells can be eliminated using a drug, AP20187. This drug does not affect wild-type mice. AP20187 activates a “suicide” protein encoded by the transgene, which is only present in p16Ink4a-expressing cells in INK-ATTAC mice. Eliminating senescent cells using this genetic approach alleviates a number of age-, progeria-, and hypercholesterolemia-related conditions, consistent with the geroscience hypothesis8, 17-19. However, this approach has limitations. First and most importantly, it would be difficult to translate an approach involving insertion of a transgene into humans. Second, not all cells with increased p16INK4A are senescent and not every senescent cell has increased expression‎ of p16INK4A. Therefore, the effects of removing potentially pathogenic classically senescent cells with an active SASP may not be recapitulated by models dependent upon p16INK4A expression‎. Third, tumor cells can have high p16INK4A expression‎20, confounding interpretation of life- or healthspan studies in INK-ATTAC mice since the vast majority of mice die of/with cancer.

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Senescent Cell Anti-Apoptotic Pathways (SCAPs): Exploiting the Achilles' Heels of Senescent Cells

To remove senescent cells pharmacologically from non-genetically modified individuals, “senolytic” agents, including small molecules, peptides, and antibodies, are being developed21. Since the article describing the first senolytic agents was published in March, 201522, progress in identifying additional senolytic agents and their effects has been remarkably rapid. In that first article, a hypothesis-driven senolytic agent discovery paradigm was implemented. Senescent cells are resistant to apoptosis, despite the SASP factors they release, which should trigger apoptosis. Indeed, pro-apoptotic pathways are up-regulated in senescent cells22, yet these cells resist apoptosis23. The hypothesis was therefore tested that senescent cells depend on pro-survival pathways to defend against their own pro-apoptotic SASP. Using bioinformatics approaches based on the RNA and protein expression‎ profiles of senescent cells, five Senescent-Cell Anti-Apoptotic Pathways (SCAPs) were identified (Table 1). That SCAPs are indeed required for senescent cell viability was verified by RNA interference studies, in which key proteins in these pathways were reduced. Through this approach, survival proteins were identified as the “Achilles' heels” of senescent cells. Knocking-down expression‎ of these proteins causes death of senescent but not non-senescent cells. Since the discovery of the first five SCAPs, another was identified (Table 1)24. This approach and the SCAPs discovered were subsequently used by others and us to identify putative senolytic targets22, 24, 25, 26, 27.

TABLE 1

Senescent Cell Anti-Apoptotic Pathways (SCAPs)

SCAPOriginal DescriptionAgents Targeting SCAPEffective in vitroEffective in vivo

1. BCL-2 / BCL-XL family	22	Navitoclax (ABT-263)25, 27, 38	√	√
		Fisetin39, 40	√
		A133185240	√
		A115546340	√
2. PI3Kδ/ AKT/ ROS-protective/ metabolic*§	22	Quercetin22	√	√
		Fisetin40, 41	√
		Piperlongumine42, 43	√
3. MDM2/ p53/ p21/ serpine (PAI-1&2)*	22	Quercetin22	√	√
		Fisetin40, 44	√
		FOXO4-related peptide	√	√
4. Ephrins/ dependence receptors/ tyrosine kinases	22	Dasatinib (ephrin receptors)22	√	√
		Piperlongumine (androgen receptors)45	√
5. HIF-1α	22	Quercetin46	√	√
		Fisetin46	√
6. HSP-90§	24	17-AAG (Tanespimycin)	√
		Geldanamycin	√
		17-DMAG (Alvespimycin)	√	√

*Closely-interconnected SCAPs

§Closely-interconnected SCAPs

We tested if agents known to interfere with the activity of SCAP pathways are senolytic. The first senolytic agents discovered using this hypothesis-driven approach were dasatinib and quercetin22. Ten months later, another group and ours simultaneously reported the third senolytic drug, navitoclax, a BCL-2 pro-survival pathway inhibitor25, 27. Since then, a growing number of senolytics, including natural products, synthetic small molecules, and peptides, which target the original SCAPs and another involving the HSP-90 SCAP, have been reported (Table 1). More senolytics are currently in development and additional potential SCAP's are being identified.

The SCAPs required for senescent cell resistance to apoptosis vary among cell types. The Achilles' heels, for example of senescent human primary adipose progenitors differ from those in a senescent human endothelial cell strain, implying that agents targeting a single SCAP may not eliminate all types of senescent cells. So far, the senolytics that have been tested across a wide range of senescent cell types have all exhibited a degree of cell type specificity. For example, navitoclax is senolytic in a cell culture-acclimated human umbilical vein endothelial cell strain, but is not very effective against senescent primary human fat cell progenitors27. Even within a particular cell type, human lung fibroblasts, nativoclax is senolytic in the culture-acclimated IMR-90 lung fibroblast-like cell strain, while it is less so in primary human lung fibroblasts isolated from patients19, 27. Without extensive testing across a range of truly primary cells, as opposed to cell lines or culture-acclimated cell strains, it is difficult to contend that any particular candidate senolytic drug is universally effective for all types of senescent cells. Furthermore, senolytics can act synergistically in some cell types. For example, while neither dasatinib nor quercetin was significantly senolytic in mouse embryonic fibroblasts in vitro, the combination of dasatinib and quercetin was senolytic22. Thus, different senolytics may prove to be optimal for different indications and combinations of senolytics can be used to broaden the range of senescent cell types that are targeted.

Several senolytics, including dasatinib plus quercetin, navitoclax, 17-DMAG, and a peptide that targets the BCL-2- and p53-related SCAPs, have been demonstrated to be effective in reducing senescent cell burden in mice, with decreases in cellular senescence-associated β-galactosidase (SA-βgal) activity, p16Ink4a+ cells, p16Ink4a, p21Cip1, and SASP factor mRNAs, telomere-associated foci, and other senescent cell indicators18, 19, 22, 24-26. Among the effects of senolytics in mice so far are: 1) improved cardiac ejection fraction and fractional shortening in old mice22; 2) enhanced vascular reactivity in old mice18; 3) decreased vascular calcification and increased vascular reactivity in hypercholesterolemic, high fat fed ApoE-/- mice18; 4) reduced senescent cell-like, intimal foam cell/macrophages in vascular plaques in high fat fed LdlR-/- mice28; 5) decreased frailty, osteoporosis, loss of intervertebral disc glycosaminoglycans, and spondylosis in progeroid Ercc1-/Δ mice22; 6) decreased gait disturbance in mice following radiation damage to a leg22 and hematological dysfunction caused by whole body radiation25; 7) increased coat density26, and 8) improved pulmonary function and reduced pulmonary fibrosis in mice with bleomycin-induced lung damage, a model of idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis19. Senolytics also had beneficial effects in mouse models of several other human chronic diseases and geriatric syndromes, which are about to be published. Information about whether senolytics affect lifespan has not yet been reported to our knowledge. In addition, more needs to be learned about the potential side-effects of using senolytic drugs. For example, genetic clearance of senescent cells delays wound healing29.

Senolytics do not have to be continuously present to exert their effect. Brief disruption of pro-survival pathways is adequate to kill senescent cells. Thus, senolytics can be effective when administered intermittently22. For example, dasatinib and quercetin have an elimination half-life of a few hours, yet a single short course alleviates effects of leg radiation for at least 7 months. The frequency of senolytic treatment will depend on rates of senescent cell accumulation, which probably varies among conditions that induce cellular senescence. For example, continued high fat feeding or exposure to genotoxic cancer therapies likely causes more rapid accumulation of senescent cells than chronological aging. Advantages of intermittent administration include reduced opportunity to develop side-effects, the feasibility of administering senolytic drugs during periods of relatively good health, and decreased risk for off-target effects caused by continuous exposure to drugs. Another advantage of senolytics is that cell division-dependent drug resistance is unlikely to occur, since senescent cells do not divide and therefore cannot acquire advantageous mutations, unlike the situation in treating cancers or infectious agents.

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Clinical Trials Strategies

New clinical trials strategies will be needed in order to test senolytics or other agents that target fundamental aging processes. Obviously, outcomes such as effects on median or maximum lifespan cannot be tested feasibly in humans. According to the geroscience hypothesis, if a candidate drug actually targets fundamental aging processes, such an agent should affect a range of chronic diseases, geriatric syndromes, and age-related loss of physiological resiliencies1, 2, 30-33. Thus, potential clinical trials scenarios include the following:

• Simultaneous alleviation of multiple co-morbidities. In patients with multi-morbidity, which is common in older patients3, candidate senolytics should alleviate more than one existing pathology, such as glucose intolerance, mild cognitive impairment, joint pain due to osteoarthritis, systolic hypertension, or decreased carotid flow. Alternatively, these drugs should delay the onset of a second age-related disorder in patients who already have one disorder, similar to the design of the TAME trial for testing the effect of metformin on fundamental aging processes1, 30, 32.
• Alleviation of potentially fatal diseases. A number of diseases for which there is no effective treatment are related to accumulation of senescent cells. These include idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis and primary sclerosing cholangitis, among others19, 34. Senolytic agents hold promise as potential treatments for these conditions. In these examples, the potential benefits of treatment are likely to outweigh the risk of side effects.
• Treatment of conditions with localized senescent cell accumulation. Several disorders, including osteoarthritis10, idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis19, and retinopathies35 are associated with localized accumulation of senescent cells. This offers the opportunity to administer senolytics by injection, aerosol, or topically, respectively. This will reduce the risk of side effects.
• Treatment of accelerated aging-like states. Senolytics or other agents that target basic aging processes may be effective in treating conditions associated with accelerated aging-like phenotypes, including those induced by chemotherapy related to bone marrow transplantation or treatment of childhood cancers, HIV infection, obesity, or genetic progeroid syndromes1, 30, 31. Short term trials examining outcomes such as reduction of multi-morbidity, frailty, or rate of functional decline may hold promise.
• Augmenting physiological resilience. Resilience, or capacity to recover after a stress such as surgery, chemotherapy, radiation, pneumonia, or a myocardial infarction, declines with aging2. Decreased resilience also underlies such conditions as reduced immune response to influenza vaccination or decreased ability to exercise with aging. Loss of resilience occurs before the onset of frailty and other conditions that are visible even in the absence of stress. Thus, scheduled medical stress paradigms or acute injury might be useful for testing interventions targeting fundamental processes of aging. Indeed, senolytics reduce adverse consequences of bleomycin-induced pulmonary injury19 or radiation-induced injury in mice22. A drug related to rapamycin, an agent that inhibits the SASP, increases immune responses to influenza vaccination in elderly community-living subjects36.
• Alleviation of frailty. Targeting senescent cells, even in late life in rodents, appears to reduce immobility, weakness, fat tissue loss, and other parameters associated with frailty17, 22, 37. Senolytics may be tested in short-term clinical trials that include older subjects with a moderate degree of frailty to determine if strength, gait, body weight, or other relevant parameters improve.

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The Potential of Senolytics to Transform Geriatric Medicine

The introduction of effective senolytics or other agents that target fundamental aging processes into clinical practice could be transformative. These drugs may be the key to increasing healthspan and delaying, preventing, or alleviating the multiple chronic diseases that account for the bulk of morbidity, mortality, and health costs in developed and developing societies1. Furthermore, they could delay or treat the geriatric syndromes, including sarcopenia, frailty, immobility, and cognitive impairment among others, as well as age-related loss of physiological resilience, in a way not imaginable until recently. These agents could transform geriatric medicine from being a discipline focused mainly on tertiary or quaternary prevention into one with important primary preventive options centered on a solid science foundation equivalent to, or even better, than that of other medical specialties.

The basic biology of aging has moved very rapidly in the last few years toward clinical intervention. There is currently a severe shortage of geriatricians with sufficient understanding of basic biology and translational science to lead early proof-of-concept clinical trials to determine if these emerging interventions will have clinical utility. Such investigators are needed now. Until they are trained, clinical geriatricians, scientists trained in the basic biology of aging, and investigators with experience in early phase clinical trials and drug regulatory systems could work in teams to translate senolytics and other drugs that target basic aging processes into clinical application.

Senolytics might prove to be interventions that can prevent or delay chronic diseases as a group, instead of one-at-a-time in pre-symptomatic or at-risk patients. Furthermore, if what can be achieved in pre-clinical aging animal models can be achieved in humans, it may be feasible to alleviate dysfunction even in frail individuals with multiple co-morbidities, a group that until recently was felt to be beyond the point of treatment other than palliative and supportive measures. Although considerable caution must be emphasized, particularly until clinical trials are completed and the potential adverse effects of senolytic drugs are understood fully, it is conceivable that the rapidly emerging repertoire of senolytic agents might transform medicine as we know it.

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Acknowledgments

The authors appreciate the assistance of Jaqueline Armstrong. This work was funded by NIH grants AG013925, AG044396, and AG043376, the American Federation for Aging Research, Aldabra Biosciences, the Connor Group, and the Noaber, Glenn, and Ted Nash Foundations.

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Footnotes

Conflicts of Interest: J.L.K., T.T., Y.Z., P.D.R, L.J.N., the Mayo Clinic and The Scripps Research Institute have a financial interest related to this research. This research has been reviewed by the Mayo Clinic Conflict of Interest Review Board and is being conducted in compliance with Mayo Clinic conflict of interest policies.

Author Contributions: J.L.K. wrote the manuscript. T.T., Y.Z., P.D.R., and L.J.N. provided ideas and revisions included in the manuscript.

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