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Differential translocation of heat shock factor-1 after mild and severe stress to human skin fibroblasts undergoing aging in vitro

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Repeated exposure to mild heat shock (HS) has been shown to induce a wide range of health promoting hormetic effects in various biological systems, including human cells undergoing aging in vitro. In order to understand how cells distinguish between mild and severe stress, we have investigated the extent of early and immediate HS response by analyzing the nuclear translocation of the transcription factor heat shock factor-1 (HSF1), in serially passaged normal adult human facial skin fibroblasts exposed to mild (41 °C) or severe (43 °C) HS. Cells respond differently when exposed to mild and severe HS at different passage levels in terms of the extent of HSF1 translocation. In early passage young cells there was a 5-fold difference between mild and severe HS in the extent of HSF1 translocation. However, in near senescent late passage cells, the difference between mild and severe stress in terms of the extent of HSF1 translocation was reduced to less than 2-fold. One of the reasons for this age-related attenuation of heat shock response is due to the fact there was a higher basal level of HSF1 in the nuclei of late passage cells, which is indicative of increased intrinsic stress during cellular aging. These observations are consistent with previously reported data that whereas repeated mild stress given at younger ages can slow down aging and increase the lifespan, the same level of stress given at older ages may not provide the same benefits. Therefore, elucidating the early and immediate steps in the induction of stress response can be useful in deciding whether a particular level of stress is potentially hormetically beneficial or not.

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Acknowledgments

Laboratory of Cellular Ageing is partially supported by a research grant from LVMH, France. The experimental work reported in this study was a part of the Ph.D. and M.Sc. research projects of the first two authors, DD and IMdT, respectively.

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  1. Laboratory of Cellular Ageing, Department of Molecular Biology and Genetics, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark

    Dino Demirovic, Irene Martinez de Toda & Suresh I. S. Rattan

  2. LVMH Research, St. Jean de Braye, France

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Demirovic, D., de Toda, I.M., Nizard, C. et al. Differential translocation of heat shock factor-1 after mild and severe stress to human skin fibroblasts undergoing aging in vitro . J. Cell Commun. Signal. 8, 333–339 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12079-014-0244-8

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