Aging is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease. Although the impact of aging has been extensively studied, little is known regarding the aging processes in cells of the heart. Here we analyzed the transcriptomes of hearts of 12-week-old and 18-month-old mice by single-nucleus RNA-sequencing. Among all cell types, aged fibroblasts showed most significant differential gene expression, increased RNA dynamics, and network entropy. Aged fibroblasts exhibited significantly changed expression patterns of inflammatory, extracellular matrix organization angiogenesis, and osteogenic genes. Functional analyses indicated deterioration of paracrine signatures between fibroblasts and endothelial cells in old hearts. Aged heart-derived fibroblasts had impaired endothelial cell angiogenesis and autophagy and augmented proinflammatory response. In particular, expression of Serpine1 and Serpine2 were significantly increased and secreted by old fibroblasts to exert antiangiogenic effects on endothelial cells, an effect that could be significantly prevented by using neutralizing antibodies. Moreover, we found an enlarged subpopulation of aged fibroblasts expressing osteoblast genes in the epicardial layer associated with increased calcification. Taken together this study provides system-wide insights and identifies molecular changes of aging cardiac fibroblasts, which may contribute to declined heart function.
Ramon Vidal, Julian Uwe Gabriel Wagner, Caroline Braeuning, Cornelius Fischer, Ralph Patrick, Lukas Tombor, Marion Muhly-Reinholz, David John, Magdalena Kliem, Thomas Conrad, Nuno Guimarães-Camboa, Richard Harvey, Stefanie Dimmeler, Sascha Sauer
Title and authors | Publication | Year |
---|---|---|
The functional role of cellular senescence during vascular calcification in chronic kidney disease
Fang YP, Zhao Y, Huang JY, Yang X, Liu Y, Zhang XL |
Frontiers in Endocrinology | 2024 |
Mineralocorticoid receptor promotes cardiac macrophage inflammaging.
Fraccarollo D, Geffers R, Galuppo P, Bauersachs J |
Basic Research in Cardiology | 2024 |
The role of the immunosuppressive PD-1/PD-L1 checkpoint pathway in the aging process and age-related diseases.
Salminen A |
Journal of Molecular Medicine | 2024 |
Improved integration of single-cell transcriptome data demonstrates common and unique signatures of heart failure in mice and humans.
Jurado MR, Tombor LS, Arsalan M, Holubec T, Emrich F, Walther T, Abplanalp W, Fischer A, Zeiher AM, Schulz MH, Dimmeler S, John D |
GigaScience | 2024 |
The Senescent Heart-"Age Doth Wither Its Infinite Variety".
Vijayakumar A, Wang M, Kailasam S |
International journal of molecular sciences | 2024 |
Age-Dependent RGS5 Loss in Pericytes Induces Cardiac Dysfunction and Fibrosis.
Tamiato A, Tombor LS, Fischer A, Muhly-Reinholz M, Vanicek LR, Toğru BN, Neitz J, Glaser SF, Merten M, Rodriguez Morales D, Kwon J, Klatt S, Schumacher B, Günther S, Abplanalp WT, John D, Fleming I, Wettschureck N, Dimmeler S, Luxán G |
Circulation research | 2024 |
Cardiac Fibroblastic Niches in Homeostasis and Inflammation
Cadosch N, Gil-Cruz C, Perez-Shibayama C, Ludewig B |
Circulation research | 2024 |
Comprehensive analysis of gene signatures associated with aging in human aortic dissection
Yan J, Tan X |
Heliyon | 2024 |
Transcriptomic profiling and regulatory pathways of cardiac resident macrophages in aging
Xia G, Zhu S, Liu Y, Pan J, Wang X, Shen C, Du A, Xu C |
2024 | |
The Role of Fibroblasts in Skin Homeostasis and Repair.
Boraldi F, Lofaro FD, Bonacorsi S, Mazzilli A, Garcia-Fernandez M, Quaglino D |
Biomedicines | 2024 |
Endothelial derived, secreted long non-coding RNAs Gadlor1 and Gadlor2 aggravate cardiac remodeling
Keles M, Grein S, Froese N, Wirth D, Trogisch FA, Wardman R, Hemanna S, Weinzierl N, Koch PS, Uhlig S, Lomada S, Dittrich GM, Szaroszyk M, Haustein R, Hegermann J, Martin-Garrido A, Bauersachs J, Frank D, Frey N, Bieback K, Cordero J, Dobreva G, Wieland T, Heineke J |
Molecular Therapy. Nucleic Acids | 2024 |
An atlas of the aging mouse proteome reveals the features of age-related post-transcriptional dysregulation
Takasugi M, Nonaka Y, Takemura K, Yoshida Y, Stein F, Schwarz JJ, Adachi J, Satoh J, Ito S, Tombline G, Biashad SA, Seluanov A, Gorbunova V, Ohtani N |
Nature Communications | 2024 |
Cardiac and perivascular myofibroblasts, matrifibrocytes, and immune fibrocytes in hypertension; commonalities and differences with other cardiovascular diseases.
Torimoto K, Elliott K, Nakayama Y, Yanagisawa H, Eguchi S, Torimoto K, Elliott K, Nakayama Y, Yanagisawa H, Eguchi S |
Cardiovascular research | 2024 |
Cardiac Aging in the Multi-Omics Era: High-Throughput Sequencing Insights.
Song Y, Spurlock B, Liu J, Qian L |
Cells | 2024 |
A cellular identity crisis? Plasticity changes during aging and rejuvenation.
Gorelov R, Hochedlinger K |
Genes & development | 2024 |
Decoding aging in the heart via single cell dual omics of non-cardiomyocytes
Song Y, Wang L, Wang H, Ma H, Xu J, Liu J, Qian L |
iScience | 2024 |
Molecular and physiological mechanisms of aging are distinct in the cardiac right and left ventricles
McNair BD, Yusifov A, Thornburg JP, Hoopes CR, Satyanarayana SB, Roy T, Gigley JP, Bruns DR |
Aging Cell | 2024 |
Spatiotemporal changes of tissue glycans depending on localization in cardiac aging
Itakura Y, Hasegawa Y, Kikkawa Y, Murakami Y, Sugiura K, Nagai-Okatani C, Sasaki N, Umemura M, Takahashi Y, Kimura T, Kuno A, Ishiwata T, Toyoda M |
Regenerative Therapy | 2023 |
Diabetes and Its Cardiovascular Complications: Potential Role of the Acetyltransferase p300
Di Pietrantonio N, Di Tomo P, Mandatori D, Formoso G, Pandolfi A |
Cells | 2023 |
Fibroblast heterogeneity: Keystone of tissue homeostasis and pathology in inflammation and ageing
Gauthier V, Kyriazi M, Nefla M, Pucino V, Raza K, Buckley CD, Alsaleh G |
Frontiers in immunology | 2023 |
Deciphering endothelial heterogeneity in health and disease at single-cell resolution: progress and perspectives.
Becker LM, Chen SH, Rodor J, de Rooij LPMH, Baker AH, Carmeliet P |
Cardiovascular Research | 2023 |
Fibroblast and Immune Cell Cross-Talk in Cardiac Fibrosis.
Hara A, Tallquist MD |
Current Cardiology Reports | 2023 |
Analysis of cardiac single-cell RNA-sequencing data can be improved by the use of artificial-intelligence-based tools.
Nguyen T, Wei Y, Nakada Y, Chen JY, Zhou Y, Walcott G, Zhang J |
Scientific Reports | 2023 |
Single-cell and spatial transcriptomics: Advances in heart development and disease applications.
Long X, Yuan X, Du J |
Computational and Structural Biotechnology Journal | 2023 |
Single-cell transcriptomic analysis uncovers diverse and dynamic senescent cell populations
Wechter N, Rossi M, Anerillas C, Tsitsipatis D, Piao Y, Fan J, Martindale JL, De S, Mazan-Mamczarz K, Gorospe M |
Aging | 2023 |
Understanding tumour endothelial cell heterogeneity and function from single-cell omics.
Zeng Q, Mousa M, Nadukkandy AS, Franssens L, Alnaqbi H, Alshamsi FY, Safar HA, Carmeliet P |
Nature reviews. Cancer | 2023 |
A Multimodal Omics Framework to Empower Target Discovery for Cardiovascular Regeneration.
Li Z, Brittan M, Mills NL |
Cardiovascular Drugs and Therapy | 2023 |
Identification of autophagy-associated circRNAs in sepsis-induced cardiomyopathy of mice
Zheng MZ, Lou JS, Fan YP, Fu CY, Mao XJ, Li X, Zhong K, Lu LH, Wang LL, Chen YY, Zheng LR |
Scientific Reports | 2023 |
Extracellular Vesicles and Cardiac Aging.
Seara FAC, Maciel L, Kasai-Brunswick TH, Nascimento JHM, Campos-de-Carvalho AC |
Advances in experimental medicine and biology | 2023 |
The role of immunosuppressive myofibroblasts in the aging process and age-related diseases.
Salminen A |
Journal of Molecular Medicine | 2023 |
Cardiac fibroblast GSK-3α aggravates ischemic cardiac injury by promoting fibrosis, inflammation, and impairing angiogenesis.
Umbarkar P, Ejantkar S, Ruiz Ramirez SY, Toro Cora A, Zhang Q, Tousif S, Lal H |
Basic Research in Cardiology | 2023 |
Fibulin-3 is necessary to prevent cardiac rupture following myocardial infarction
Murtha LA, Hardy SA, Mabotuwana NS, Bigland MJ, Bailey T, Raguram K, Liu S, Ngo DT, Sverdlov AL, Tomin T, Birner-Gruenberger R, Hume RD, Iismaa SE, Humphreys DT, Patrick R, Chong JJ, Lee RJ, Harvey RP, Graham RM, Rainer PP, Boyle AJ |
Scientific Reports | 2023 |
A 4D transcriptomic map for the evolution of multiple sclerosis-like lesions in the marmoset brain
Lin JP, Brake A, Donadieu M, Lee A, Kawaguchi R, Sati P, Geschwind DH, Jacobson S, Schafer DP, Reich DS |
2023 | |
An interferon gamma response signature links myocardial aging and immunosenescence
Ashour D, Rebs S, Arampatzi P, Saliba AE, Dudek J, Schulz R, Hofmann U, Frantz S, Cochain C, Streckfuß-Bömeke K, Campos Ramos G |
Cardiovascular Research | 2023 |
The rate of epigenetic drift scales with maximum lifespan across mammals
Bertucci-Richter EM, Parrott BB |
Nature Communications | 2023 |
AMPK signaling inhibits the differentiation of myofibroblasts: impact on age-related tissue fibrosis and degeneration.
Salminen A |
Biogerontology | 2023 |
Endothelial cell dysfunction: the culprit for cardiac denervation in aging?
Moore OM, Keefe JA, Wehrens XH |
2023 | |
Fibroblast Reprogramming in Cardiac Repair
Wang Q, Spurlock B, Liu J, Qian L |
JACC: Basic to Translational Science | 2023 |
Identification and functional analysis of senescent cells in the cardiovascular system using omics approaches
Mahoney SA, Dey AK, Basisty N, Herman AB |
American journal of physiology. Heart and circulatory physiology | 2023 |
ACTIVATED FIBROBLASTS IN CANCER: PERSPECTIVES AND CHALLENGES
Caligiuri G, Tuveson DA |
Cancer Cell | 2023 |
Recent advances and future prospects in direct cardiac reprogramming.
Xie Y, Van Handel B, Qian L, Ardehali R |
Nature cardiovascular research | 2023 |
Analysis of myocardial cellular gene expression during pressure overload reveals matrix based functional intercellular communication
N Froese, J Cordero, A Abouissa, F Trogisch, S Grein, M Szaroszyk, Y Wang, A Gigina, M Korf-Klingebiel, B Bosnjak, C Davenport, L Wiehlmann, R Geffers, E Riechert, L Jürgensen, E Boileau, Y Lin, C Dieterich, R Förster, J Bauersachs, R Ola, G Dobreva, M Völkers, J Heineke |
iScience | 2022 |
Cellular Heterogeneity of the Heart
N Michel, S Ljubojevic-Holzer, H Bugger, A Zirlik |
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine | 2022 |
Comparative analysis of common alignment tools for single-cell RNA sequencing
R Brüning, L Tombor, M Schulz, S Dimmeler, D John |
GigaScience | 2022 |
A Potential New Therapeutic Direction for Fibrosis in the Injured Heart Orchestrated by Cardiac MSCs
Cieslik KA |
JACC: Basic to Translational Science | 2022 |
Cardiomyocyte Cell-Cycle Regulation in Neonatal Large Mammals: Single Nucleus RNA-Sequencing Data Analysis via an Artificial-Intelligence–Based Pipeline
Nguyen T, Wei Y, Nakada Y, Zhou Y, Zhang J |
Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology | 2022 |
Excessive Sodium Intake Leads to Cardiovascular Disease by Promoting Sex-Specific Dysfunction of Murine Heart.
Chen X, Wu H, Huang S |
Frontiers in Nutrition | 2022 |
Identification of a 6-RBP gene signature for a comprehensive analysis of glioma and ischemic stroke: Cognitive impairment and aging-related hypoxic stress
Lin W, Wang Q, Chen Y, Wang N, Ni Q, Qi C, Wang Q, Zhu Y |
Frontiers in aging neuroscience | 2022 |
Decoding the colorectal cancer ecosystem emphasizes the cooperative role of cancer cells, TAMs and CAFsin tumor progression
Shen R, Li P, Zhang B, Feng L, Cheng S |
Journal of Translational Medicine | 2022 |
Single-cell technologies to decipher cardiovascular diseases
Abplanalp WT, Tucker N, Dimmeler S |
European Heart Journal | 2022 |
Comparative single-cell analysis of the adult heart and coronary vasculature.
Balachandran S, Pozojevic J, Sreenivasan VKA, Spielmann M |
Mammalian genome : official journal of the International Mammalian Genome Society | 2022 |
Endocytosis of Peptidase Inhibitor SerpinE2 promotes Myocardial Fibrosis through activating ERK1/2 and β-catenin Signaling Pathways.
Li C, Lv LF, Qi-Li MG, Yang R, Wang YJ, Chen SS, Zhang MX, Li TY, Yu T, Zhou YH, Liang HH, Shan HL, Li XL |
International journal of biological sciences | 2022 |
Endothelial-mesenchymal transition induced by metastatic 4T1 breast cancer cells in pulmonary endothelium in aged mice
Smeda M, Jasztal A, Maleki EH, Bar A, Sternak M, Kwiatkowski G, Suraj-Prażmowska J, Proniewski B, Kieronska-Rudek A, Wojnar-Lason K, Skrzypek K, Majka M, Chrabaszcz K, Malek K, Chlopicki S |
Frontiers in Molecular Biosciences | 2022 |
Strategy of Patient-Specific Therapeutics in Cardiovascular Disease Through Single-Cell RNA Sequencing
Jung Y, Kim J, Jang H, Kim G, Kwon YW |
Korean Circulation Journal | 2022 |
Single-cell transcriptomics for the assessment of cardiac disease.
Miranda AMA, Janbandhu V, Maatz H, Kanemaru K, Cranley J, Teichmann SA, Hübner N, Schneider MD, Harvey RP, Noseda M |
Nature reviews. Cardiology | 2022 |
Direct cardiac reprogramming: Toward the era of multi-omics analysis
Liu M, Liu J, Zhang T, Wang L |
2022 | |
Fibroblast heterogeneity and tertiary lymphoid tissues in the kidney
H Arai, Y Sato, M Yanagita |
Immunological Reviews | 2021 |
Fibroblast GATA-4 and GATA-6 promote myocardial adaptation to pressure overload by enhancing cardiac angiogenesis
GM Dittrich, N Froese, X Wang, H Kroeger, H Wang, M Szaroszyk, M Malek-Mohammadi, J Cordero, M Keles, M Korf-Klingebiel, KC Wollert, R Geffers, M Mayr, SJ Conway, G Dobreva, J Bauersachs, J Heineke |
Basic Research in Cardiology | 2021 |
Macrophage-adipocyte communication and cardiac remodeling
G Yepuri, SN Hasan, AM Schmidt, R Ramasamy |
Journal of Experimental Medicine | 2021 |
Terminally Differentiated CD4+ T Cells Promote Myocardial Inflammaging
M Delgobo, M Heinrichs, N Hapke, DE Ashour, M Appel, M Srivastava, T Heckel, I Spyridopoulos, U Hofmann, S Frantz, GC Ramos |
Frontiers in immunology | 2021 |
The bright side of fibroblasts: molecular signature and regenerative cues in major organs
RN Gomes, F Manuel, DS Nascimento |
npj Regenerative Medicine | 2021 |
Age-dependent transcriptional alterations in cardiac endothelial cells
U Emechebe, JW Nelson, NJ Alkayed, S Kaul, AC Adey, AP Barnes |
Physiological genomics | 2021 |
Developmental lineage of human pluripotent stem cell‐derived cardiac fibroblasts affects their functional phenotype
ME Floy, SE Givens, OB Matthys, TD Mateyka, CM Kerr, AB Steinberg, AC Silva, J Zhang, Y Mei, BM Ogle, TC McDevitt, TJ Kamp, SP Palecek |
The FASEB Journal | 2021 |
Chronic low‐grade inflammation in heart failure with preserved ejection fraction
T Mesquita, YN Lin, A Ibrahim |
Aging Cell | 2021 |
Melatonin to Rescue the Aged Heart: Antiarrhythmic and Antioxidant Benefits
M Segovia-Roldan, ER Diez, E Pueyo, L Barros |
Oxidative Medicine & Cellular Longevity | 2021 |
Single cell RNA sequencing approaches to cardiac development and congenital heart disease
T Samad, SM Wu |
Seminars in Cell & Developmental Biology | 2021 |
CXCR7 ameliorates myocardial infarction as a β-arrestin-biased receptor
M Ishizuka, M Harada, S Nomura, T Ko, Y Ikeda, J Guo, S Bujo, H Yanagisawa-Murakami, M Satoh, S Yamada, H Kumagai, Y Motozawa, H Hara, T Fujiwara, T Sato, N Takeda, N Takeda, K Otsu, H Morita, H Toko, I Komuro |
Scientific Reports | 2021 |
Single-Cell RNA Sequencing of the Adult Mammalian Heart—State-of-the-Art and Future Perspectives
MM Gladka |
Current Heart Failure Reports | 2021 |
miRNAs generated from Meg3-Mirg locus are downregulated during aging
AM Lupan, EG Rusu, MB Preda, CI Marinescu, C Ivan, A Burlacu |
Aging | 2021 |
Ex uno, plures–From One Tissue to Many Cells: A Review of Single-Cell Transcriptomics in Cardiovascular Biology
E Forte, MA McLellan, DA Skelly, NA Rosenthal |
International journal of molecular sciences | 2021 |
Single-Cell RNA Sequencing (scRNA-seq) in Cardiac Tissue: Applications and Limitations
M Wang, M Gu, L Liu, Y Liu, L Tian |
Vascular Health and Risk Management | 2021 |
Multicellular Human Cardiac Organoids Transcriptomically Model Distinct Tissue-Level Features of Adult Myocardium
CM Kerr, D Richards, DR Menick, KY Deleon-Pennell, Y Mei |
International journal of molecular sciences | 2021 |
Cell-to-cell variation in gene expression and the aging process
AR Mendenhall, GM Martin, M Kaeberlein, RM Anderson |
GeroScience | 2021 |
Quality control in scRNA-Seq can discriminate pacemaker cells: the mtRNA bias
AM Galow, S Kussauer, M Wolfien, RM Brunner, T Goldammer, R David, A Hoeflich |
Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences | 2021 |
Automated annotation of rare-cell types from single-cell RNA-sequencing data through synthetic oversampling
S Bej, AM Galow, R David, M Wolfien, O Wolkenhauer |
BMC bioinformatics | 2021 |
Recent Progress in Cardiovascular Research Involving Single-Cell Omics Approaches
Z Dai, S Nomura |
Frontiers in Cardiovascular Medicine | 2021 |
Role of Calcium Signaling Pathway-Related Gene Regulatory Networks in Ischemic Stroke Based on Multiple WGCNA and Single-Cell Analysis
W Lin, Y Wang, Y Chen, Q Wang, Z Gu, Y Zhu, W Tu |
Oxidative Medicine & Cellular Longevity | 2021 |
Cardiac fibrosis
NG Frangogiannis |
Cardiovascular Research | 2020 |
The role of Smad2 and Smad3 in regulating homeostatic functions of fibroblasts in vitro and in adult mice
S Huang, B Chen, C Humeres, L Alex, A Hanna, NG Frangogiannis |
Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Molecular Cell Research | 2020 |
Mechanosensing dysregulation in the fibroblast: A hallmark of the aging heart
A Angelini, JA Trial, J Ortiz-Urbina, KA Cieslik |
Ageing Research Reviews | 2020 |
Single-nucleus RNA-seq identifies transcriptional heterogeneity in multinucleated skeletal myofibers
MJ Petrany, CO Swoboda, C Sun, K Chetal, X Chen, MT Weirauch, N Salomonis, DP Millay |
Nature Communications | 2020 |
Single-cell RNA Sequencing: In-depth Decoding of Heart Biology and Cardiovascular Diseases
Z Chen, L Wei, F Duru, L Chen |
Current genomics | 2020 |
Review of Single-Cell RNA Sequencing in the Heart
S Yamada, S Nomura |
International journal of molecular sciences | 2020 |
A Proteomic Atlas of Cardiac Amyloid Plaques
TV Kourelis, SS Dasari, A Dispenzieri, JJ Maleszewski, MM Redfield, AU Fayyaz, M Grogan, M Ramirez-Alvarado, OF Ezzeddine, ED McPhail |
2020 |