Cell-cell metabolite exchange creates a pro-survival metabolic environment that extends lifespan
Artikel i vetenskaplig tidskrift, 2023

Metabolism is deeply intertwined with aging. Effects of metabolic interventions on aging have been explained with intracellular metabolism, growth control, and signaling. Studying chronological aging in yeast, we reveal a so far overlooked metabolic property that influences aging via the exchange of metabolites. We observed that metabolites exported by young cells are re-imported by chronologically aging cells, resulting in cross-generational metabolic interactions. Then, we used self-establishing metabolically cooperating communities (SeMeCo) as a tool to increase metabolite exchange and observed significant lifespan extensions. The longevity of the SeMeCo was attributable to metabolic reconfigurations in methionine consumer cells. These obtained a more glycolytic metabolism and increased the export of protective metabolites that in turn extended the lifespan of cells that supplied them with methionine. Our results establish metabolite exchange interactions as a determinant of cellular aging and show that metabolically cooperating cells can shape the metabolic environment to extend their lifespan.

metabolic microenvironment

chronological aging

eukaryotic longevity

metabolite exchange interactions

Författare

Clara Correia-Melo

University of Cambridge

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

The Francis Crick Institute

Stephan Kamrad

The Francis Crick Institute

Roland Tengölics

Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia

Christoph B. Messner

The Francis Crick Institute

Universität Zürich

Pauline Trebulle

The Francis Crick Institute

University of Oxford

St John Townsend

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

The Francis Crick Institute

Sreejith Jayasree Varma

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Anja Freiwald

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

Benjamin M. Heineike

University of Oxford

Department of Metabolism

Medical Research Council

The Francis Crick Institute

Kate Campbell

University of Cambridge

Lucia Herrera-Dominguez

The Francis Crick Institute

Simran Kaur Aulakh

The Francis Crick Institute

University of Oxford

Lukasz Szyrwiel

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

The Francis Crick Institute

Jason S.L. Yu

The Francis Crick Institute

Aleksej Zelezniak

Vilniaus universitetas

Faculty of Life Sciences & Medicine

The Francis Crick Institute

Chalmers, Life sciences, Systembiologi

Vadim Demichev

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

University of Cambridge

The Francis Crick Institute

Michael Mülleder

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

The Francis Crick Institute

University of Cambridge

Balázs Papp

Magyar Tudomanyos Akademia

Mohammad Tauqeer Alam

United Arab Emirates University

M. Ralser

The Francis Crick Institute

Charité Universitätsmedizin Berlin

University of Oxford

University of Cambridge

Cell

0092-8674 (ISSN) 1097-4172 (eISSN)

Vol. 186 1 63-79.e21

Ämneskategorier

Cellbiologi

Immunologi

Medicinsk bioteknologi (med inriktning mot cellbiologi (inklusive stamcellsbiologi), molekylärbiologi, mikrobiologi, biokemi eller biofarmaci)

DOI

10.1016/j.cell.2022.12.007

PubMed

36608659

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2023-01-09