9 figures, 1 table and 1 additional file

Figures

Figure 1 with 5 supplements
Expression dynamics of replicative senescence (RS), radiation induced senescence (RIS), increasing cell density (CD) and hTERT WI-38 cells.

(A) Experimental design for the RS, RIS, CD and hTERT experiments. (B) Days in culture vs. population doublings (PDL) for WT WI-38 cells (red) and hTERT immortalized cells (green). Labeled points …

Figure 1—figure supplement 1
Sample manifest.

Sample manifest for WT and hTERT WI-38 cells.

Figure 1—figure supplement 2
Senescence markers.

Expression of canonical and novel senescence induced genes (A) RNA-seq quantification for p21, p16, NNMT, TGFB2, and GLB1 (beta-galactosidase) transcripts expressed as fold change relative to …

Figure 1—figure supplement 3
Senescence markers cont’d.

Senescent WI-38 cells express classic senescence markers. (A) Quantification of p16 and p14 gene products from the CDKN1A locus. Values plotted are fold change levels relative to PDL 20. TPM values …

Figure 1—figure supplement 4
Individual time point GSEA.

Enrichment and induction of Epithelial to Mesenchymal Transition gene set during approach to replicative senescence. (A) GSEA was run using MSigDB Hallmark gene sets. Data used for ranked list was …

Figure 1—figure supplement 5
Pilot experiment for WI-38 husbandry.

Pilot WI-38 seeding and sampling experiment. A small pilot experiment was used to determine optimal seeding and sampling cell densities in WI-38 cells at three different population doublings (PDL). …

Figure 2 with 5 supplements
Cell cycle exit and distribution on approach to replicative senescence (RS) does not explain gradual increase in the replicative senescence transcriptome.

(A) Individual UMAP projections of WT WI-38 cells; PDL colored by phases of the cell cycle (G1 = green, G2/M = orange, S-phase = purple). (B) Bar graph of cell cycle state percentages defined by …

Figure 2—figure supplement 1
Buffer optimization for scRNA-seq.

Using a modified resuspension buffer of DMEM + FBS increases detection of senescent cells with the 10 x Genomics 3’ single cell RNA-seq protocol. (A) Barplot comparing the number of cells detected …

Figure 2—figure supplement 2
Correlation between bulk and single cell RNA-seq.

Replicative senescence dependent gene expression changes measured by Bulk RNA-seq and single cell RNA-seq are highly concordant.

Scatterplot comparing the log2 fold changes of PDL 50 vs. PDL 25 measured using single-cell pseudo-bulk count summations (x-axis) and actual bulk RNA-seq (y-axis). The color for each gene is the log10 normalized counts. The r for all genes is 0.77. The r for genes filtered at >25 th percentile is 0.81 (red line) and 0.45 for genes < 25 th percentile (blue line).

Figure 2—figure supplement 3
UMAP of mitotic cells.

Single cell UMAPs of high mitotic scoring (gene set) WI-38 cells. S phase and G2M scored cells were separated and reprocessed and visualized with a UMAP projection. In mitotic cells, PDL is the …

Figure 2—figure supplement 4
Senescence and cell density scoring of scRNA-seq cells.

WT and hTERT WI-38 cells scored for senescence and cell density signatures. (A) UMAP projection of WT and hTERT single-cell RNA-seq scored with a signature composed of significantly increasing genes …

Figure 2—figure supplement 5
mages of cell density at sampling.

Representative images of WI-38 cells at collection time points.

Figure 3 with 5 supplements
Proteomic and metabolomic changes during replicative senescence.

(A) Significant (Benjamini-Hochberg adjusted pvalue < 0.01) GSEA results for protein changes (n=3) using the MSigDB Hallmarks. Reference time point not shown. Values are -log10 p-value and are …

Figure 3—source data 1

Proteomics quantification, differential analysis and GSEA.

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Metabolomics quantification and differential analysis.

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Figure 3—figure supplement 1
PDL-dependent changes in the senescent proteome vs. hTERT cells.

Heatmap of hierarchical clustering of 8000 protein log2 fold changes at each time point/PDL versus first (not shown) for RS WT WI-38 (left) and hTERT WI-38 cells (right) from high induction (orange) …

Figure 3—figure supplement 2
Correlation between bulk RNA-seq and proteomics.

Scatterplot comparing the log2 fold change expression of genes (x-axis) vs. protein (y-axis) in PDL 50 cells relative to PDL 20 cells. Oxidative phosphorylation leading edge genes from GSEA plotted …

Figure 3—figure supplement 3
Proteomic changes in oxidative phosphorylation annotation.

Breakdown of the hallmark oxidative phosphorylation gene set into functional subsets reveals up regulation of most mitochondrial functions during replicative senescence. Heatmaps of log2 fold change …

Figure 3—figure supplement 4
PDL-dependent changes in the senescent metabolome vs. hTERT cells.

PDL-dependent changes in the senescent metabolome vs. hTERT cells. Heatmap of hierarchical clustering of 285 metabolite log2 fold changes at each PDL or PDL.ctrl versus first (not shown) for RS WT …

Figure 3—figure supplement 5
Kennedy pathway utilization during replicative senescence Kennedy Pathway diagram.

Metabolites in blue, proteins in green. Heatmaps of log2 fold changes for metabolites and proteins from A. Median hTERT corrected values for n=4 replicates are shown. Significant changes (FDR …

Nicotinamide n-methyltransferase (NNMT) links nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NAD) and methionine metabolism during replicative senescence.

(A) Gene expression fold changes for the NNMT (top) in the hTERT, replicative senescence (RS), radiation induced senescence (RIS), and cell density (CD) time courses (three replicate average, each …

Figure 5 with 5 supplements
Increased accessibility within heterochromatin and nucleolar associated domains (NADs) is a dominant feature of the replicative senescence (RS) epigenome.

(A) Percent of ATAC-seq reads falling into four broad chromatin states compiled from the ENCODE IMR-90 25 chromatin state prediction for all samples in WT or hTERT WI-38 cells. Percent of all …

Figure 5—figure supplement 1
ATAC-seq library fragment distribution and size selection.

ATAC-seq library fragment distribution and size selection.

Figure 5—figure supplement 2
ATAC-seq library fragment distribution after size selection and sequencing.

ATAC-seq library fragment distribution after size selection and sequencing.

Figure 5—figure supplement 3
ATAC-seq mitochondrial read percentages and ATAC-seq transcriptional start site enrichment.

ATAC-seq mitochondrial read percentages and ATAC-seq transcriptional start site enrichment. (A) Mitochondrial read percentages in sequenced and aligned ATAC-seq library for WT PDLs (red) hTERT time …

Figure 5—figure supplement 4
ATAC-seq QC metrics and extended analysis.

ATAC-seq QC metrics, controls, and NADs/LADs browser shot. (A) Fraction of reads in peak by PDL (WT) and PDL.ctrl (hTERT).p values for linear fit over time are shown. WT cells exhibit a slight ~5% …

Figure 5—figure supplement 5
Chromatin state profiles of ATAC-seq peaks in nucleolar-associated domains (NADs).

Chromatin state profiles of ATAC-seq peaks in NADs vs. rest of the genome. Heatmap of all significant ATAC-seq peaks categorized by 25 chromatin states and then divided into peaks overlapping with …

Figure 6 with 1 supplement
Master transcriptional regulators of replicative senescence.

(A) Scatter plot of transcription factor motif enrichment in ATAC-seq peaks surrounding significantly induced genes (FDR adjusted p-value < 0.01, log2 FC >0.5) during replicative senescence. The …

Figure 6—figure supplement 1
FOXE1 expression during senescence.

Gene expression fold changes for the transcription factor FOXE1 across conditions. Gene expression fold changes (three replicate average, each point a replicate) for the transcription factor FOXE1 …

Figure 7 with 2 supplements
Pseudotime (PS) analysis of WI-38 approach to replicative senescence using single-cell RNA-seq.

(A) UMAP projection of single WI-38 cells collected at increasing PDLs (PDL25-red) to (PDL50-blue) and colored by pseudotime (top). (B) Scatterplot of single-cell gene expression across pseudotime …

Figure 7—figure supplement 1
Heatmap of genes changing with senescence pseudotime.

Heatmap of gene expression changes for the top 5000 significantly changing genes during replicative senescence pseudotime. Genes were hierarchically clustered, gene normalized and scaled (0–1) …

Figure 7—figure supplement 2
Heatmap of enriched gene sets for replicative senescence pseudotime clusters.

Heatmap of enriched gene sets for replicative senescence pseudotime clusters (k-25). Heatmap of adjusted p-values for GO-term enrichment analysis on individual clusters from 6. Values plotted are …

Figure 8 with 1 supplement
YAP regulation of myofibroblast markers and YAP1/TEAD1 targets during replicative senescence.

(A) RNA-seq and proteomics heatmaps of selected genes based on myofibroblast markers and biology. Values plotted are log2 fold change of each PDL vs. PDL 20 for replicative senescence timecourse and …

Figure 8—figure supplement 1
Effect of inhibiting the YAP1/TEAD1 interaction with verteporfin treatment on WI-38 cells.

Effect of inhibiting the YAP1/TEAD1 interaction with verteporfin treatment on WI-38 cells. (A) Barplots of the gene expression of 3 known YAP1 gene targets in verteporfin-treated cells. Values …

Replicative senescence fibroblast to myofibroblast transition (FMT) model.

We divided Replicative senescence progression into three major categories and summarized our results across all data modalities focusing on features in common with myofibroblasts.

Tables

Key resources table
Reagent type (species) or resourceDesignationSource or referenceIdentifiersAdditional information
Cell Line (H. sapiens)WI-38 fibroblastsCoriellAG06814-N
Cell Line (H. sapiens)WI-38 hTERTThis paperimmortalized WI-38 human fibroblasts, methods
Transfected construct (H. sapiens)pCDH-CMV-hTERT-EF1a-puroThis paperLentiviral plasmid, methods
Commercial assay, kitSenescence-β-GalactosidaseCell Signaling Tech.9,860
Commercial assay, kitMycoAlert Mycoplasma DetectionLonzaLT07-218
Commercial assay, kitDirect-zol RNA Miniprep PlusZymo ResearchR2072
Commercial assay, kitChromium Single Cell 3’ v210 x Genomics120,237
Commercial assay, kitChromium Single Cell A Chip10 x Genomics1000009
Commercial assay, kitTagment DNA Enzyme and Bufferillumina20034197
Commercial assay, kitClean-and-Concentrator-5Zymo ResearchD4014
Commercial assay, kitNEBNext High-Fidelity 2 X PCRNEBM0541L
Commercial assay, kitTruSeq Stranded mRNA Libraryillumina20020595
Commercial assayBioanalyzer High Sensitivity DNAAgilent5067–4626
Commercial assay, kitPierce BCA Protein AssayThermo Fisher23,227
antibodyanti-human p16 antibody (Mouse monoclonal)BD BiosciencesRRID:AB_395229(1:250)
antibodyanti-human p21 antibody (Mouse monoclonal)BD BiosciencesRRID:AB_396414(1:250)
Commercial assay, kitPippin Prep 2% 100–600 bpSage ScienceCDF2010
Chemical compound, drugVerteporfinRD Systems1243926
OtherZorbax Extend C18 columnAglient759700–902
OtherSeQuant ZIC-pHILIC columnEMD Millipore150,460
Software, algorithmR (v4.0.3 and 3.6.2)r-project.org/RRID:SCR_001905
Software, algorithmSalmon (v 0.8.2)combine-lab.github.io/salmon/RRID:SCR_017036
Software, algorithmDESeq2 (v1.30.1)bioconductorRRID:SCR_015687
Software, algorithmsva package(v3.38.0)bioconductorRRID:SCR_012836
Software, algorithmfgsea 1.16.0bioconductorRRID:SCR_020938
Software, algorithmCellRanger 3.010 x GenomicsRRID:SCR_017344
Software, algorithmSCTransform (v 0.3.2)Satijalab.org/seurat
Software, algorithmSeurat (v4.0.1.9005)satijalab.org/seuratRRID:SCR_007322
Software, algorithmmonocle3 (v1.0.0)cole-trapnell-lab.github.io/monocle3RRID:SCR_018685
Software, algorithmbowtie2 (v2.3.4.1)bowtie-bio.sourceforge.netbowtie-bio.sourceforge.netRRID:SCR_016368
Software, algorithmsamtools (v1.2)http://ww.htslib.org/RRID:SCR_002105
Software, algorithmPicard (v2.6.4)broadinstitute.github.io/picardRRID:SCR_006525
Software, algorithmmacs2 (v2 2.1.2)hbctraining.github.io/main/RRID:SCR_013291
Software, algorithmGenomicRanges (v1.42.0)bioconductorRRID:SCR_000025
Software, algorithmcutadapt (v2.4)https://github.com/marcelm/cutadaptRRID:SCR_011841
Software, algorithmbcl2fastq (v2.20)IlluminaRRID:SCR_015058
Software, algorithmregioneR v1.22.0bioconductor
Software, algorithmATACseqQC v1.14.4bioconductor
Software, algorithmLIMMA v3.46.0bioconductorRRID:SCR_010943
Software, algorithmQvalue v2.26.0combine-lab.github.io/salmonQvalueRRID:SCR_001073
Software, algorithmLISA v1lisa.cistrome.org

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