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Wadhwa A, Moreno-Villanueva M, Crucian B, Wu H. Synergistic interplay between radiation and microgravity in spaceflight-related immunological health risks. Immun Ageing 2024; 21:50. [PMID: 39033285 PMCID: PMC11264846 DOI: 10.1186/s12979-024-00449-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/30/2023] [Accepted: 06/21/2024] [Indexed: 07/23/2024]
Abstract
Spaceflight poses a myriad of environmental stressors to astronauts´ physiology including microgravity and radiation. The individual impacts of microgravity and radiation on the immune system have been extensively investigated, though a comprehensive review on their combined effects on immune system outcomes is missing. Therefore, this review aims at understanding the synergistic, additive, and antagonistic interactions between microgravity and radiation and their impact on immune function as observed during spaceflight-analog studies such as rodent hindlimb unloading and cell culture rotating wall vessel models. These mimic some, but not all, of the physiological changes observed in astronauts during spaceflight and provide valuable information that should be considered when planning future missions. We provide guidelines for the design of further spaceflight-analog studies, incorporating influential factors such as age and sex for rodent models and standardizing the longitudinal evaluation of specific immunological alterations for both rodent and cellular models of spaceflight exposure.
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- Anna Wadhwa
- Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, 02115, USA.
- NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 77058, USA.
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- NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX, 77058, USA
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Hu Y, Wang Y, Wang Y, Zhang Y, Wang Z, Xu X, Zhang T, Zhang T, Zhang S, Hu R, Shi L, Wang X, Li J, Shen H, Liu J, Noda M, Peng Y, Long J. Sleep Deprivation Triggers Mitochondrial DNA Release in Microglia to Induce Neural Inflammation: Preventative Effect of Hydroxytyrosol Butyrate. Antioxidants (Basel) 2024; 13:833. [PMID: 39061901 PMCID: PMC11273532 DOI: 10.3390/antiox13070833] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/30/2024] [Revised: 07/05/2024] [Accepted: 07/10/2024] [Indexed: 07/28/2024] Open
Abstract
Sleep deprivation (SD) triggers mitochondrial dysfunction and neural inflammation, leading to cognitive impairment and mental issues. However, the mechanism involving mitochondrial dysfunction and neural inflammation still remains unclear. Here, we report that SD rats exhibited multiple behavioral disorders, brain oxidative stress, and robust brain mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) oxidation. In particular, SD activated microglia and microglial mtDNA efflux to the cytosol and provoked brain pro-inflammatory cytokines. We observed that the mtDNA efflux and pro-inflammatory cytokines significantly reduced with the suppression of the mtDNA oxidation. With the treatment of a novel mitochondrial nutrient, hydroxytyrosol butyrate (HTHB), the SD-induced behavioral disorders were significantly ameliorated while mtDNA oxidation, mtDNA release, and NF-κB activation were remarkably alleviated in both the rat brain and the N9 microglial cell line. Together, these results indicate that microglial mtDNA oxidation and the resultant release induced by SD mediate neural inflammation and HTHB prevents mtDNA oxidation and efflux, providing a potential treatment for SD-induced mental issues.
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- Yachong Hu
- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, China; (X.X.); (T.Z.)
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- School of Pharmacy, Chengdu Medical College, Chengdu 610500, China; (X.X.); (T.Z.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- State Key Laboratory of Toxicology and Medical Countermeasures, Beijing Institute of Pharmacology and Toxicology, Beijing 100850, China;
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- Department of Nutrition and Food Hygiene, Faculty of Naval Medicine, Naval Medical University, Shanghai 200433, China;
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
- School of Health and Life Science, University of Health and Rehabilitation Sciences, Qingdao 266071, China
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
- Research and Educational Resource Center for Immunophenotyping, RUDN University, 6 Miklukho-Maklaya St, 117198 Moscow, Russia
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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- Center for Mitochondrial Biology and Medicine, The Key Laboratory of Biomedical Information Engineering of Ministry of Education, School of Life Science and Technology, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China; (Y.H.); (Y.W.); (Y.W.); (Y.Z.); (Z.W.); (T.Z.); (S.Z.); (R.H.); (L.S.); (X.W.); (J.L.); (M.N.)
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Houerbi N, Kim J, Overbey EG, Batra R, Schweickart A, Patras L, Lucotti S, Ryon KA, Najjar D, Meydan C, Damle N, Chin C, Narayanan SA, Guarnieri JW, Widjaja G, Beheshti A, Tobias G, Vatter F, Hirschberg JW, Kleinman A, Afshin EE, MacKay M, Chen Q, Miller D, Gajadhar AS, Williamson L, Tandel P, Yang Q, Chu J, Benz R, Siddiqui A, Hornburg D, Gross S, Shirah B, Krumsiek J, Mateus J, Mao X, Matei I, Mason CE. Secretome profiling reveals acute changes in oxidative stress, brain homeostasis, and coagulation following short-duration spaceflight. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4862. [PMID: 38862464 PMCID: PMC11166969 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48841-w] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/09/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024] Open
Abstract
As spaceflight becomes more common with commercial crews, blood-based measures of crew health can guide both astronaut biomedicine and countermeasures. By profiling plasma proteins, metabolites, and extracellular vesicles/particles (EVPs) from the SpaceX Inspiration4 crew, we generated "spaceflight secretome profiles," which showed significant differences in coagulation, oxidative stress, and brain-enriched proteins. While >93% of differentially abundant proteins (DAPs) in vesicles and metabolites recovered within six months, the majority (73%) of plasma DAPs were still perturbed post-flight. Moreover, these proteomic alterations correlated better with peripheral blood mononuclear cells than whole blood, suggesting that immune cells contribute more DAPs than erythrocytes. Finally, to discern possible mechanisms leading to brain-enriched protein detection and blood-brain barrier (BBB) disruption, we examined protein changes in dissected brains of spaceflight mice, which showed increases in PECAM-1, a marker of BBB integrity. These data highlight how even short-duration spaceflight can disrupt human and murine physiology and identify spaceflight biomarkers that can guide countermeasure development.
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- Nadia Houerbi
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Tri-Institutional Biology and Medicine program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Center of Systems Biology, Biodiversity and Bioresources, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Nutrition & Integrative Physiology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Center of Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Center of Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Seer, Inc., Redwood City, CA, 94065, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Seer, Inc., Redwood City, CA, 94065, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Seer, Inc., Redwood City, CA, 94065, USA
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- Seer, Inc., Redwood City, CA, 94065, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Tri-Institutional Biology and Medicine program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA
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- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), Hawthorne, CA, USA
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- Department of Basic Sciences, Division of Biomedical Engineering Sciences (BMES), Loma Linda University Health, Loma Linda, CA, 92350, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA.
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- Tri-Institutional Biology and Medicine program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
- WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
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Mason CE, Green J, Adamopoulos KI, Afshin EE, Baechle JJ, Basner M, Bailey SM, Bielski L, Borg J, Borg J, Broddrick JT, Burke M, Caicedo A, Castañeda V, Chatterjee S, Chin CR, Church G, Costes SV, De Vlaminck I, Desai RI, Dhir R, Diaz JE, Etlin SM, Feinstein Z, Furman D, Garcia-Medina JS, Garrett-Bakelman F, Giacomello S, Gupta A, Hassanin A, Houerbi N, Irby I, Javorsky E, Jirak P, Jones CW, Kamal KY, Kangas BD, Karouia F, Kim J, Kim JH, Kleinman AS, Lam T, Lawler JM, Lee JA, Limoli CL, Lucaci A, MacKay M, McDonald JT, Melnick AM, Meydan C, Mieczkowski J, Muratani M, Najjar D, Othman MA, Overbey EG, Paar V, Park J, Paul AM, Perdyan A, Proszynski J, Reynolds RJ, Ronca AE, Rubins K, Ryon KA, Sanders LM, Glowe PS, Shevde Y, Schmidt MA, Scott RT, Shirah B, Sienkiewicz K, Sierra MA, Siew K, Theriot CA, Tierney BT, Venkateswaran K, Hirschberg JW, Walsh SB, Walter C, Winer DA, Yu M, Zea L, Mateus J, Beheshti A. A second space age spanning omics, platforms and medicine across orbits. Nature 2024:10.1038/s41586-024-07586-8. [PMID: 38862027 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07586-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/13/2023] [Accepted: 05/18/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024]
Abstract
The recent acceleration of commercial, private and multi-national spaceflight has created an unprecedented level of activity in low Earth orbit, concomitant with the largest-ever number of crewed missions entering space and preparations for exploration-class (lasting longer than one year) missions. Such rapid advancement into space from many new companies, countries and space-related entities has enabled a 'second space age'. This era is also poised to leverage, for the first time, modern tools and methods of molecular biology and precision medicine, thus enabling precision aerospace medicine for the crews. The applications of these biomedical technologies and algorithms are diverse, and encompass multi-omic, single-cell and spatial biology tools to investigate human and microbial responses to spaceflight. Additionally, they extend to the development of new imaging techniques, real-time cognitive assessments, physiological monitoring and personalized risk profiles tailored for astronauts. Furthermore, these technologies enable advancements in pharmacogenomics, as well as the identification of novel spaceflight biomarkers and the development of corresponding countermeasures. In this Perspective, we highlight some of the recent biomedical research from the National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency, European Space Agency and other space agencies, and detail the entrance of the commercial spaceflight sector (including SpaceX, Blue Origin, Axiom and Sierra Space) into aerospace medicine and space biology, the first aerospace medicine biobank, and various upcoming missions that will utilize these tools to ensure a permanent human presence beyond low Earth orbit, venturing out to other planets and moons.
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- Christopher E Mason
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, New York, NY, USA.
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- Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
- Biomedical Engineering Laboratory, School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, National University of Athens, Athens, Greece
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Buck Artificial Intelligence Platform, Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, USA
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- Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Centre for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
- Department of Applied Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
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- Centre for Molecular Medicine and Biobanking, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
- Department of Applied Biomedical Science, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Malta, Msida, Malta
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Human Factors and Behavioral Neurobiology, Daytona Beach, FL, USA
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- Instituto de Investigaciones en Biomedicina iBioMed, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador
- Escuela de Medicina, Colegio de Ciencias de la Salud COCSA, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador
- Sistemas Médicos SIME, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador
- Mito-Act Research Consortium, Quito, Ecuador
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- Faculty of Medicine, Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile
- IMPACT, Center of Interventional Medicine for Precision and Advanced Cellular Therapy, Santiago, Chile
- Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics Lab, Program in Molecular Biology and Bioinformatics, Center for Biomedical Research and Innovation (CIIB), Universidad de los Andes, Santiago, Chile
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Integrative Neurochemistry Laboratory, Behavioral Biology Program, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Seed Health, Venice, CA, USA
- Swiss Institute of Allergy and Asthma Research (SIAF), University of Zurich, Davos, Switzerland
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- Data Science Institute, School of Business, Universidad San Francisco de Quito USFQ, Quito, Ecuador
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- Department of Astrobiology, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, USA
- Stanford 1000 Immunomes Project, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, USA
- Institute for Research in Translational Medicine, Universidad Austral, CONICET, Pilar, Argentina
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Gene Technology, KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Medical Microbiology and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, Zagazig University, Zagazig, Egypt
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- School of Biological Sciences, Georgia Institute of Technology, Atlanta, GA, USA
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- Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, Harvard University, Boston, MA, USA
- Future of Life Institute, Campbell, CA, USA
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- Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
- Department of Internal Medicine, Hospital Gmünd, Lower Austria, Austria
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- Unit for Experimental Psychiatry, Division of Sleep and Chronobiology, Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA
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- Redox Biology and Cell Signaling Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
- Department of Kinesiology, Iowa State University, Ames, USA
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- Behavioral Biology Program, Department of Psychiatry, Harvard Medical School, Belmont, MA, USA
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- Blue Marble Institute of Science, Exobiology Branch NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
- Space Research Within Reach, San Francisco, CA, USA
- Center for Space Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, TX, USA
- BioServe Space Technologies, Smead Aerospace Engineering Science Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Redox Biology and Cell Signaling Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA
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- Redox Biology and Cell Signaling Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Irvine, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C., USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- International Research Agenda 3P-Medicine Laboratory, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
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- Department of Genome Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, Japan
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Redox Biology and Cell Signaling Laboratory, Department of Kinesiology and Sport Management, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- BioAstra, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Internal Medicine II, Division of Cardiology, Paracelsus Medical University, Salzburg, Austria
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Department of Human Factors and Behavioral Neurobiology, Daytona Beach, FL, USA
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- International Research Agenda 3P-Medicine Laboratory, Medical University of Gdansk, Gdansk, Poland
- Department of Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
- KBR, Inc., Houston, TX, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
- Wake Forest Medical School, Dept of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Winston-Salem, NC, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Ursa Biotechnology Corporation, Ursa Bio, New York, NY, USA
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- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- London Tubular Centre, Department of Renal Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- London Tubular Centre, Department of Renal Medicine, University College London, London, UK
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics and Tri-Institutional Computational Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, USA
- Leonard Davis School of Gerontology, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Laboratory Medicine and Pathobiology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Division of Cellular and Molecular Biology, Toronto General Hospital Research Institute (TGHRI), University Health Network, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Immunology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Smead Aerospace Engineering Sciences Department, University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, CO, USA
- Jaguar Space, LLC, Erie, CO, USA
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- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), Hawthorne, CA, USA
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- Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA.
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA.
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Husna N, Aiba T, Fujita SI, Saito Y, Shiba D, Kudo T, Takahashi S, Furukawa S, Muratani M. Release of CD36-associated cell-free mitochondrial DNA and RNA as a hallmark of space environment response. Nat Commun 2024; 15:4814. [PMID: 38862469 PMCID: PMC11166646 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41995-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/09/2022] [Accepted: 09/20/2023] [Indexed: 06/13/2024] Open
Abstract
A detailed understanding of how spaceflight affects human health is essential for long-term space exploration. Liquid biopsies allow for minimally-invasive multi-omics assessments that can resolve the molecular heterogeneity of internal tissues. Here, we report initial results from the JAXA Cell-Free Epigenome Study, a liquid biopsy study with six astronauts who resided on the International Space Station (ISS) for more than 120 days. Analysis of plasma cell-free RNA (cfRNA) collected before, during, and after spaceflight confirms previously reported mitochondrial dysregulation in space. Screening with 361 cell surface marker antibodies identifies a mitochondrial DNA-enriched fraction associated with the scavenger receptor CD36. RNA-sequencing of the CD36 fraction reveals tissue-enriched RNA species, suggesting the plasma mitochondrial components originated from various tissues. We compare our plasma cfRNA data to mouse plasma cfRNA data from a previous JAXA mission, which had used on-board artificial gravity, and discover a link between microgravity and the observed mitochondrial responses.
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- Nailil Husna
- Department of Genome Biology, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan
- Program in Humanics, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8573, Japan
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- Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan
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- Department of Genome Biology, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan
- Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 60201, USA
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- Faculty of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, 606-8303, Japan
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- Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan
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- Transborder Medical Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan
- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan
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- Transborder Medical Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan
- Department of Anatomy and Embryology, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan
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- Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki, 305-8505, Japan
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- Department of Genome Biology, Institute of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan.
- Transborder Medical Research Center, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki, 305-8575, Japan.
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Overbey EG, Kim J, Tierney BT, Park J, Houerbi N, Lucaci AG, Garcia Medina S, Damle N, Najjar D, Grigorev K, Afshin EE, Ryon KA, Sienkiewicz K, Patras L, Klotz R, Ortiz V, MacKay M, Schweickart A, Chin CR, Sierra MA, Valenzuela MF, Dantas E, Nelson TM, Cekanaviciute E, Deards G, Foox J, Narayanan SA, Schmidt CM, Schmidt MA, Schmidt JC, Mullane S, Tigchelaar SS, Levitte S, Westover C, Bhattacharya C, Lucotti S, Wain Hirschberg J, Proszynski J, Burke M, Kleinman AS, Butler DJ, Loy C, Mzava O, Lenz J, Paul D, Mozsary C, Sanders LM, Taylor LE, Patel CO, Khan SA, Suhail Mohamad M, Byhaqui SGA, Aslam B, Gajadhar AS, Williamson L, Tandel P, Yang Q, Chu J, Benz RW, Siddiqui A, Hornburg D, Blease K, Moreno J, Boddicker A, Zhao J, Lajoie B, Scott RT, Gilbert RR, Lai Polo SH, Altomare A, Kruglyak S, Levy S, Ariyapala I, Beer J, Zhang B, Hudson BM, Rininger A, Church SE, Beheshti A, Church GM, Smith SM, Crucian BE, Zwart SR, Matei I, Lyden DC, Garrett-Bakelman F, Krumsiek J, Chen Q, Miller D, Shuga J, Williams S, Nemec C, Trudel G, Pelchat M, Laneuville O, De Vlaminck I, Gross S, Bolton KL, Bailey SM, Granstein R, Furman D, Melnick AM, Costes SV, Shirah B, Yu M, Menon AS, Mateus J, Meydan C, Mason CE. The Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) and international astronaut biobank. Nature 2024:10.1038/s41586-024-07639-y. [PMID: 38862028 DOI: 10.1038/s41586-024-07639-y] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024]
Abstract
Spaceflight induces molecular, cellular and physiological shifts in astronauts and poses myriad biomedical challenges to the human body, which are becoming increasingly relevant as more humans venture into space1-6. Yet current frameworks for aerospace medicine are nascent and lag far behind advancements in precision medicine on Earth, underscoring the need for rapid development of space medicine databases, tools and protocols. Here we present the Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA), an integrated data and sample repository for clinical, cellular and multi-omic research profiles from a diverse range of missions, including the NASA Twins Study7, JAXA CFE study8,9, SpaceX Inspiration4 crew10-12, Axiom and Polaris. The SOMA resource represents a more than tenfold increase in publicly available human space omics data, with matched samples available from the Cornell Aerospace Medicine Biobank. The Atlas includes extensive molecular and physiological profiles encompassing genomics, epigenomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics and microbiome datasets, which reveal some consistent features across missions, including cytokine shifts, telomere elongation and gene expression changes, as well as mission-specific molecular responses and links to orthologous, tissue-specific mouse datasets. Leveraging the datasets, tools and resources in SOMA can help to accelerate precision aerospace medicine, bringing needed health monitoring, risk mitigation and countermeasure data for upcoming lunar, Mars and exploration-class missions.
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- Eliah G Overbey
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- BioAstra Inc., New York, NY, USA.
- Center for STEM, University of Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Albert Einstein College of Medicine, Bronx, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Tri-Institutional Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Center of Systems Biology, Biodiversity and Bioresources, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Tri-Institutional Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Tri-Institutional Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Tri-Institutional Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Endocrinology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Vagelos College of Physicians & Surgeons, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, New York, NY, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Tri-Institutional Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Health, Nutrition, and Food Sciences, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, CO, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis and Human Performance Group, Boulder, CO, USA
- Department of Systems Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, CO, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis and Human Performance Group, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, CO, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis and Human Performance Group, Boulder, CO, USA
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- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), Hawthorne, CA, USA
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- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), Hawthorne, CA, USA
- Division of Pediatric Gastroenterology, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Tri-Institutional Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Neurosurgery, Houston Methodist Research Institute, Houston, United States
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Seer Inc., Redwood City, CA, USA
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- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA, USA
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- Harvard Medical School and the Wyss Institute, Boston, MA, USA
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, Human Health and Performance Directorate, Biomedical Research and Environmental Sciences Division, Houston, TX, USA
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- National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Johnson Space Center, Human Health and Performance Directorate, Biomedical Research and Environmental Sciences Division, Houston, TX, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology and Oncology, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Tri-Institutional Biology and Medicine Program, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Bone and Joint Research Laboratory, Ottawa Hospital Research Institute, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Medicine, Division of Physiatry, The Ottawa Hospital, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
- Department of Cellular and Molecular Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biochemistry, Microbiology, and Immunology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Department of Biology, University of Ottawa, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
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- Nancy E. and Peter C. Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA
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- Department of Pharmacology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Division of Oncology, Washington University School of Medicine, St Louis, MO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Dermatology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Buck Institute for Research on Aging, Novato, CA, USA
- Cosmica Biosciences Inc., San Francisco, CA, USA
- Stanford 1000 Immunomes Project, Stanford School of Medicine, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, USA
- Institute for Research in Translational Medicine, Universidad Austral and CONICET, Buenos Aires, Argentina
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- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, King Faisal Specialist Hospital and Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX), Hawthorne, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- Department of Medicine, Division of Hematology/Oncology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- BioAstra Inc., New York, NY, USA.
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY, USA.
- WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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Overbey EG, Ryon K, Kim J, Tierney BT, Klotz R, Ortiz V, Mullane S, Schmidt JC, MacKay M, Damle N, Najjar D, Matei I, Patras L, Garcia Medina JS, Kleinman AS, Wain Hirschberg J, Proszynski J, Narayanan SA, Schmidt CM, Afshin EE, Innes L, Saldarriaga MM, Schmidt MA, Granstein RD, Shirah B, Yu M, Lyden D, Mateus J, Mason CE. Collection of biospecimens from the inspiration4 mission establishes the standards for the space omics and medical atlas (SOMA). Nat Commun 2024; 15:4964. [PMID: 38862509 PMCID: PMC11166662 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-48806-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 05/15/2024] [Indexed: 06/13/2024] Open
Abstract
The SpaceX Inspiration4 mission provided a unique opportunity to study the impact of spaceflight on the human body. Biospecimen samples were collected from four crew members longitudinally before (Launch: L-92, L-44, L-3 days), during (Flight Day: FD1, FD2, FD3), and after (Return: R + 1, R + 45, R + 82, R + 194 days) spaceflight, spanning a total of 289 days across 2021-2022. The collection process included venous whole blood, capillary dried blood spot cards, saliva, urine, stool, body swabs, capsule swabs, SpaceX Dragon capsule HEPA filter, and skin biopsies. Venous whole blood was further processed to obtain aliquots of serum, plasma, extracellular vesicles and particles, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. In total, 2,911 sample aliquots were shipped to our central lab at Weill Cornell Medicine for downstream assays and biobanking. This paper provides an overview of the extensive biospecimen collection and highlights their processing procedures and long-term biobanking techniques, facilitating future molecular tests and evaluations.As such, this study details a robust framework for obtaining and preserving high-quality human, microbial, and environmental samples for aerospace medicine in the Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) initiative, which can aid future human spaceflight and space biology experiments.
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- Eliah G Overbey
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- BioAstra, Inc, New York, NY, USA
- Center for STEM, University of Austin, Austin, TX, 78701, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, Hawthorne, CA, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis & Human Performance Group, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Center of Systems Biology, Biodiversity and Bioresources, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Florida State University, College of Education, Health, and Human Sciences, Department of Health, Nutrition, and Food Sciences, Tallahassee, FL, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis & Human Performance Group, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Department of Systems Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis & Human Performance Group, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
- Department of Pharmacology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, 21201, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10065, USA
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- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, Hawthorne, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA.
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
- BioAstra, Inc, New York, NY, USA.
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
- WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, 10021, USA.
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Zarubin M, Andreev E, Kravchenko E, Pinaeva U, Nechaev A, Apel P. Developing tardigrade-inspired material: Track membranes functionalized with Dsup protein for cell-free DNA isolation. Biotechnol Prog 2024:e3478. [PMID: 38699905 DOI: 10.1002/btpr.3478] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/29/2023] [Revised: 04/09/2024] [Accepted: 04/24/2024] [Indexed: 05/05/2024]
Abstract
When developing functionalized biomaterials, the proteins from extremophilic organisms, in particular unique tardigrade disordered proteins, are of great value. The damage suppressor protein (Dsup), initially discovered in the tardigrade Ramazzottius varieornatus and found to be an efficient DNA protector under oxidative and irradiation stress, has been hypothesized to possess a good potential for the development of the material, which can isolate cell-free DNA. With this in mind, DNA-nonadsorbing polyethylene terephthalate track membranes have been functionalized using the Dsup protein via covalent bonding with glutaraldehyde. The filtration experiments have verified the ability of track membranes with the immobilized Dsup protein to adsorb cell-free DNA, with an accumulation capacity of 70 ± 19 mg m-2. The resulting track membrane-based biomaterial might be used in various devices for filtration and separation of cell-free DNA molecules from biological solutions and environmental samples, and also for their accumulation, storage, and further manipulation.
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- Mikhail Zarubin
- Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, International Intergovernmental Organization Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (DLNP JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, International Intergovernmental Organization Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (FLNR JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Dzhelepov Laboratory of Nuclear Problems, International Intergovernmental Organization Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (DLNP JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, International Intergovernmental Organization Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (FLNR JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, International Intergovernmental Organization Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (FLNR JINR), Dubna, Russia
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- Flerov Laboratory of Nuclear Reactions, International Intergovernmental Organization Joint Institute for Nuclear Research (FLNR JINR), Dubna, Russia
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Garcia-Medina JS, Sienkiewicz K, Narayanan SA, Overbey EG, Grigorev K, Ryon KA, Burke M, Proszynski J, Tierney B, Schmidt CM, Mencia-Trinchant N, Klotz R, Ortiz V, Foox J, Chin C, Najjar D, Matei I, Chan I, Cruchaga C, Kleinman A, Kim J, Lucaci A, Loy C, Mzava O, De Vlaminck I, Singaraju A, Taylor LE, Schmidt JC, Schmidt MA, Blease K, Moreno J, Boddicker A, Zhao J, Lajoie B, Altomare A, Kruglyak S, Levy S, Yu M, Hassane DC, Bailey SM, Bolton K, Mateus J, Mason CE. Genome and clonal hematopoiesis stability contrasts with immune, cfDNA, mitochondrial, and telomere length changes during short duration spaceflight. PRECISION CLINICAL MEDICINE 2024; 7:pbae007. [PMID: 38634106 PMCID: PMC11022651 DOI: 10.1093/pcmedi/pbae007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/29/2024] [Accepted: 03/24/2024] [Indexed: 04/19/2024] Open
Abstract
Background The Inspiration4 (I4) mission, the first all-civilian orbital flight mission, investigated the physiological effects of short-duration spaceflight through a multi-omic approach. Despite advances, there remains much to learn about human adaptation to spaceflight's unique challenges, including microgravity, immune system perturbations, and radiation exposure. Methods To provide a detailed genetics analysis of the mission, we collected dried blood spots pre-, during, and post-flight for DNA extraction. Telomere length was measured by quantitative PCR, while whole genome and cfDNA sequencing provided insight into genomic stability and immune adaptations. A robust bioinformatic pipeline was used for data analysis, including variant calling to assess mutational burden. Result Telomere elongation occurred during spaceflight and shortened after return to Earth. Cell-free DNA analysis revealed increased immune cell signatures post-flight. No significant clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP) or whole-genome instability was observed. The long-term gene expression changes across immune cells suggested cellular adaptations to the space environment persisting months post-flight. Conclusion Our findings provide valuable insights into the physiological consequences of short-duration spaceflight, with telomere dynamics and immune cell gene expression adapting to spaceflight and persisting after return to Earth. CHIP sequencing data will serve as a reference point for studying the early development of CHIP in astronauts, an understudied phenomenon as previous studies have focused on career astronauts. This study will serve as a reference point for future commercial and non-commercial spaceflight, low Earth orbit (LEO) missions, and deep-space exploration.
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- J Sebastian Garcia-Medina
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Nutrition and Integrative Physiology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
- BioAstra Inc, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis & Human Performance Group, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
- Department of Systems Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
- BioAstra Inc, New York, NY, USA
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY 10021, USA
- WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Children's Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children's Health, Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Washington University St. Louis Oncology Division, St. Louis, MO 63100, USA
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- Washington University St. Louis Oncology Division, St. Louis, MO 63100, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Meinig School of Biomedical Engineering, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA
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- Department of Immunology, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis & Human Performance Group, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis & Human Performance Group, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
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- Element Biosciences, San Diego, CA 10055, USA
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- Element Biosciences, San Diego, CA 10055, USA
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- Element Biosciences, San Diego, CA 10055, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90033, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
- Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA
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- Washington University St. Louis Oncology Division, St. Louis, MO 63100, USA
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- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, Hawthorne, CA 90250, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY 10021, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
- BioAstra Inc, New York, NY, USA
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY 10021, USA
- WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Nardi L, Davis NM, Sansolini S, Baratto de Albuquerque T, Laarraj M, Caputo D, de Cesare G, Shariati Pour SR, Zangheri M, Calabria D, Guardigli M, Balsamo M, Carrubba E, Carubia F, Ceccarelli M, Ghiozzi M, Popova L, Tenaglia A, Crisconio M, Donati A, Nascetti A, Mirasoli M. APHRODITE: A Compact Lab-on-Chip Biosensor for the Real-Time Analysis of Salivary Biomarkers in Space Missions. BIOSENSORS 2024; 14:72. [PMID: 38391991 PMCID: PMC10887022 DOI: 10.3390/bios14020072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/30/2023] [Revised: 01/15/2024] [Accepted: 01/24/2024] [Indexed: 02/24/2024]
Abstract
One of the main challenges to be faced in deep space missions is to protect the health and ensure the maximum efficiency of the crew by preparing methods of prevention and in situ diagnosis. Indeed, the hostile environment causes important health problems, ranging from muscle atrophy, osteopenia, and immunological and metabolic alterations due to microgravity, to an increased risk of cancer caused by exposure to radiation. It is, therefore, necessary to provide new methods for the real-time measurement of biomarkers suitable for deepening our knowledge of the effects of space flight on the balance of the immune system and for allowing the monitoring of the astronaut's health during long-term missions. APHRODITE will enable human space exploration because it fills this void that affects both missions in LEO and future missions to the Moon and Mars. Its scientific objectives are the design, production, testing, and in-orbit demonstration of a compact, reusable, and reconfigurable system for performing the real-time analysis of oral fluid samples in manned space missions. In the frame of this project, a crew member onboard the ISS will employ APHRODITE to measure the selected target analytes, cortisol, and dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate (DHEA-S), in oral fluid, in four (plus one additional desired session) separate experiment sessions. The paper addresses the design of the main subsystems of the analytical device and the preliminary results obtained during the first implementations of the device subsystems and testing measurements on Earth. In particular, the system design and the experiment data output of the lab-on-chip photosensors and of the front-end readout electronics are reported in detail along with preliminary chemical tests for the duplex competitive CL-immunoassay for the simultaneous detection of cortisol and DHEA-S. Different applications also on Earth are envisaged for the APHRODITE device, as it will be suitable for point-of-care testing applications (e.g., emergency medicine, bioterrorism, diagnostics in developing countries, etc.).
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- Lorenzo Nardi
- School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria 851, I-00138 Rome, Italy; (N.M.D.); (S.S.); (T.B.d.A.); (M.L.); (A.N.)
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- School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria 851, I-00138 Rome, Italy; (N.M.D.); (S.S.); (T.B.d.A.); (M.L.); (A.N.)
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- School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria 851, I-00138 Rome, Italy; (N.M.D.); (S.S.); (T.B.d.A.); (M.L.); (A.N.)
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- School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria 851, I-00138 Rome, Italy; (N.M.D.); (S.S.); (T.B.d.A.); (M.L.); (A.N.)
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- School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria 851, I-00138 Rome, Italy; (N.M.D.); (S.S.); (T.B.d.A.); (M.L.); (A.N.)
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, I-00184 Rome, Italy; (D.C.); (G.d.C.)
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- Department of Information Engineering, Electronics and Telecommunications, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Eudossiana 18, I-00184 Rome, Italy; (D.C.); (G.d.C.)
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- Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, Tecnopolo di Rimini, Via Dario Campana 71, I-47922 Rimini, Italy; (S.R.S.P.); (M.Z.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, Tecnopolo di Rimini, Via Dario Campana 71, I-47922 Rimini, Italy; (S.R.S.P.); (M.Z.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, Via Selmi 2, I-40126 Bologna, Italy; (D.C.); (M.G.)
- Interdepartmental Centre for Industrial Aerospace Research (CIRI AEROSPACE), Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, Via Baldassarre Canaccini 12, I-47121 Forlì, Italy
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- Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, Via Selmi 2, I-40126 Bologna, Italy; (D.C.); (M.G.)
- Interdepartmental Centre for Industrial Aerospace Research (CIRI AEROSPACE), Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, Via Baldassarre Canaccini 12, I-47121 Forlì, Italy
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- Kayser Italy S.r.l. Unipersonale, Via di Popogna 501, I-57128 Livorno, Italy; (M.B.); (E.C.); (F.C.); (M.C.); (M.G.); (L.P.); (A.T.); (A.D.)
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- Kayser Italy S.r.l. Unipersonale, Via di Popogna 501, I-57128 Livorno, Italy; (M.B.); (E.C.); (F.C.); (M.C.); (M.G.); (L.P.); (A.T.); (A.D.)
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- Kayser Italy S.r.l. Unipersonale, Via di Popogna 501, I-57128 Livorno, Italy; (M.B.); (E.C.); (F.C.); (M.C.); (M.G.); (L.P.); (A.T.); (A.D.)
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- Kayser Italy S.r.l. Unipersonale, Via di Popogna 501, I-57128 Livorno, Italy; (M.B.); (E.C.); (F.C.); (M.C.); (M.G.); (L.P.); (A.T.); (A.D.)
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- Kayser Italy S.r.l. Unipersonale, Via di Popogna 501, I-57128 Livorno, Italy; (M.B.); (E.C.); (F.C.); (M.C.); (M.G.); (L.P.); (A.T.); (A.D.)
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- Kayser Italy S.r.l. Unipersonale, Via di Popogna 501, I-57128 Livorno, Italy; (M.B.); (E.C.); (F.C.); (M.C.); (M.G.); (L.P.); (A.T.); (A.D.)
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- Kayser Italy S.r.l. Unipersonale, Via di Popogna 501, I-57128 Livorno, Italy; (M.B.); (E.C.); (F.C.); (M.C.); (M.G.); (L.P.); (A.T.); (A.D.)
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- Agenzia Spaziale Italiana (ASI), Italian Space Agency, Via del Politecnico, I-00133 Rome, Italy;
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- Kayser Italy S.r.l. Unipersonale, Via di Popogna 501, I-57128 Livorno, Italy; (M.B.); (E.C.); (F.C.); (M.C.); (M.G.); (L.P.); (A.T.); (A.D.)
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- School of Aerospace Engineering, Sapienza University of Rome, Via Salaria 851, I-00138 Rome, Italy; (N.M.D.); (S.S.); (T.B.d.A.); (M.L.); (A.N.)
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- Department of Chemistry “Giacomo Ciamician”, Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, Tecnopolo di Rimini, Via Dario Campana 71, I-47922 Rimini, Italy; (S.R.S.P.); (M.Z.); (M.M.)
- Interdepartmental Centre for Industrial Aerospace Research (CIRI AEROSPACE), Alma Mater Studiorum—University of Bologna, Via Baldassarre Canaccini 12, I-47121 Forlì, Italy
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Roch B, Pisareva E, Mirandola A, Sanchez C, Pastor B, Tanos R, Frayssinoux F, Diab-Assaf M, Anker P, Al Amir Dache Z, Thierry AR. Impact of platelet activation on the release of cell-free mitochondria and circulating mitochondrial DNA. Clin Chim Acta 2024; 553:117711. [PMID: 38101467 DOI: 10.1016/j.cca.2023.117711] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Revised: 12/11/2023] [Accepted: 12/11/2023] [Indexed: 12/17/2023]
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BACKGROUND Research on circulating mitochondrial DNA (cir-mtDNA) based diagnostic is insufficient, as to its function, origin, structural features, and particularly its standardization of isolation. To date, plasma preparation performed in previous studies do not take into consideration the potential bias resulting from the release of mitochondria by activated platelets. METHODS To tackle this, we compared the mtDNA amount determined by a standard plasma preparation method or a method optimally avoiding platelet activation. MtDNA extracted from the plasma of seven healthy individuals was quantified by Q-PCR in the course of the process of both methods submitted to filtration, freezing or differential centrifugation. RESULTS 98.7 to 99.4% of plasma mtDNA corresponded to extracellular mitochondria, either free or into large extracellular vesicles. Without platelet activation, the proportion of both types of entities remained preponderant (76-80%), but the amount of detected mtDNA decreased 67-fold. CONCLUSION We show the high capacity of platelets to release free mitochondria in "in vitro" conditions. This represents a potent confounding factor when extracting mtDNA for cir-mtDNA investigation. Platelet activation during pre-analytical conditions should therefore be avoided when studying cir-mtDNA. Our findings lead to a profound revision of the assumptions previously made by most works in this field. Overall, our data suggest the need to characterize or isolate mtDNA associated various structural forms, as well as to standardize plasma preparation, to better circumscribe cir-mtDNA's diagnostic capacity.
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- Benoit Roch
- IRCM, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier F-34298, France; Thoracic Oncology Unit, Arnaud de Villeneuve Hospital, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier F-34295, France
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- IRCM, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier F-34298, France
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- IRCM, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier F-34298, France
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- IRCM, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier F-34298, France
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- IRCM, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier F-34298, France
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- IRCM, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier F-34298, France
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- IRCM, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier F-34298, France
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- Faculty of Sciences II, Lebanese University Fanar, Beirut, Lebanon
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- IRCM, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier F-34298, France
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- IRCM, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier F-34298, France
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- IRCM, Montpellier Cancer Research Institute, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier F-34298, France; ICM, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier F-34298, France.
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Barcenilla BB, Meyers AD, Castillo-González C, Young P, Min JH, Song J, Phadke C, Land E, Canaday E, Perera IY, Bailey SM, Aquilano R, Wyatt SE, Shippen DE. Arabidopsis telomerase takes off by uncoupling enzyme activity from telomere length maintenance in space. Nat Commun 2023; 14:7854. [PMID: 38030615 PMCID: PMC10686995 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-41510-4] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2023] [Accepted: 09/07/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
Abstract
Spaceflight-induced changes in astronaut telomeres have garnered significant attention in recent years. While plants represent an essential component of future long-duration space travel, the impacts of spaceflight on plant telomeres and telomerase have not been examined. Here we report on the telomere dynamics of Arabidopsis thaliana grown aboard the International Space Station. We observe no changes in telomere length in space-flown Arabidopsis seedlings, despite a dramatic increase in telomerase activity (up to 150-fold in roots), as well as elevated genome oxidation. Ground-based follow up studies provide further evidence that telomerase is induced by different environmental stressors, but its activity is uncoupled from telomere length. Supporting this conclusion, genetically engineered super-telomerase lines with enhanced telomerase activity maintain wildtype telomere length. Finally, genome oxidation is inversely correlated with telomerase activity levels. We propose a redox protective capacity for Arabidopsis telomerase that may promote survivability in harsh environments.
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- Borja Barbero Barcenilla
- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2128 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA
- NASA Postdoctoral Program, Oak Ridge Associated Universities, Kennedy Space Center FL, Merritt Island, FL, 32899, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2128 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2128 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2128 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2128 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2128 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA
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- Department of Plant and Microbial Biology, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, 27695, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, 80523, USA
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- National Technological University, Rosario Regional Faculty, Zeballos 1341, S2000, Rosario, Argentina
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- Department of Environmental and Plant Biology, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA.
- Molecular and Cellular Biology Program, Ohio University, Athens, OH, 45701, USA.
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- Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, Texas A&M University, 2128 TAMU, College Station, TX, 77843, USA.
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Cinti S, Singh S, Covone G, Tonietti L, Ricciardelli A, Cordone A, Iacono R, Mazzoli A, Moracci M, Rotundi A, Giovannelli D. Reviewing the state of biosensors and lab-on-a- chip technologies: opportunities for extreme environments and space exploration. Front Microbiol 2023; 14:1215529. [PMID: 37664111 PMCID: PMC10470837 DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2023.1215529] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/02/2023] [Accepted: 07/31/2023] [Indexed: 09/05/2023] Open
Abstract
The space race is entering a new era of exploration, in which the number of robotic and human missions to various places in our solar system is rapidly increasing. Despite the recent advances in propulsion and life support technologies, there is a growing need to perform analytical measurements and laboratory experiments across diverse domains of science, while keeping low payload requirements. In this context, lab-on-a-chip nanobiosensors appear to be an emerging technology capable of revolutionizing space exploration, given their low footprint, high accuracy, and low payload requirements. To date, only some approaches for monitoring astronaut health in spacecraft environments have been reported. Although non-invasive molecular diagnostics, like lab-on-a-chip technology, are expected to improve the quality of long-term space missions, their application to monitor microbiological and environmental variables is rarely reported, even for analogous extreme environments on Earth. The possibility of evaluating the occurrence of unknown or unexpected species, identifying redox gradients relevant to microbial metabolism, or testing for specific possible biosignatures, will play a key role in the future of space microbiology. In this review, we will examine the current and potential roles of lab-on-a-chip technology in space exploration and in extreme environment investigation, reporting what has been tested so far, and clarifying the direction toward which the newly developed technologies of portable lab-on-a-chip sensors are heading for exploration in extreme environments and in space.
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- Stefano Cinti
- Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
- BAT Center-Interuniversity Center for Studies on Bioinspired Agro-Environmental Technology, University of Napoli Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Bioelectronics Task Force at University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Pharmacy, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Physics, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy
- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Task Force on Microbiome Studies, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
- NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy
- Institute of Biosciences and Bioresources, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Science and Technology, University of Naples Parthenope, Naples, Italy
- INAF-IAPS, Istituto di Astrofisica e Planetologie Spaziali, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Biology, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
- Task Force on Microbiome Studies, University of Naples Federico II, Naples, Italy
- National Research Council–Institute of Marine Biological Resources and Biotechnologies–CNR-IRBIM, Ancona, Italy
- Earth-Life Science Institute, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Tokyo, Japan
- Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, MA, United States
- Department of Marine and Coastal Science, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, United States
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Overbey EG, Ryon K, Kim J, Tierney B, Klotz R, Ortiz V, Mullane S, Schmidt JC, MacKay M, Damle N, Najjar D, Matei I, Patras L, Medina JSG, Kleinman A, Hirschberg JW, Proszynski J, Narayanan SA, Schmidt CM, Afshin EE, Innes L, Saldarriaga MM, Schmidt MA, Granstein RD, Shirah B, Yu M, Lyden D, Mateus J, Mason CE. Collection of Biospecimens from the Inspiration4 Mission Establishes the Standards for the Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA). BIORXIV : THE PREPRINT SERVER FOR BIOLOGY 2023:2023.05.02.539108. [PMID: 37205403 PMCID: PMC10187258 DOI: 10.1101/2023.05.02.539108] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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The SpaceX Inspiration4 mission provided a unique opportunity to study the impact of spaceflight on the human body. Biospecimen samples were collected from the crew at different stages of the mission, including before (L-92, L-44, L-3 days), during (FD1, FD2, FD3), and after (R+1, R+45, R+82, R+194 days) spaceflight, creating a longitudinal sample set. The collection process included samples such as venous blood, capillary dried blood spot cards, saliva, urine, stool, body swabs, capsule swabs, SpaceX Dragon capsule HEPA filter, and skin biopsies, which were processed to obtain aliquots of serum, plasma, extracellular vesicles, and peripheral blood mononuclear cells. All samples were then processed in clinical and research laboratories for optimal isolation and testing of DNA, RNA, proteins, metabolites, and other biomolecules. This paper describes the complete set of collected biospecimens, their processing steps, and long-term biobanking methods, which enable future molecular assays and testing. As such, this study details a robust framework for obtaining and preserving high-quality human, microbial, and environmental samples for aerospace medicine in the Space Omics and Medical Atlas (SOMA) initiative, which can also aid future experiments in human spaceflight and space biology.
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- Eliah G. Overbey
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- BioAstra, Inc, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, Hawthorne, CA, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis & Human Performance Group, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Children’s Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children’s Health, Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Children’s Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children’s Health, Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Department of Molecular Biology and Biotechnology, Center of Systems Biology, Biodiversity and Bioresources, Faculty of Biology and Geology, Babes-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis & Human Performance Group, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Department of Systems Engineering, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
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- Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, Colorado, USA
- Advanced Pattern Analysis & Human Performance Group, Boulder, Colorado, USA
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- Department of Neuroscience, King Faisal Specialist Hospital & Research Centre, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia
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- Department of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA, USA
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- Children’s Cancer and Blood Foundation Laboratories, Departments of Pediatrics and Cell and Developmental Biology, Drukier Institute for Children’s Health, Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY
- Meyer Cancer Center, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, Hawthorne, CA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, Cornell University, New York, NY, USA
- The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
- BioAstra, Inc, New York, NY, USA
- The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY 10021, USA
- WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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Corydon TJ, Schulz H, Richter P, Strauch SM, Böhmer M, Ricciardi DA, Wehland M, Krüger M, Erzinger GS, Lebert M, Infanger M, Wise PM, Grimm D. Current Knowledge about the Impact of Microgravity on Gene Regulation. Cells 2023; 12:cells12071043. [PMID: 37048115 PMCID: PMC10093652 DOI: 10.3390/cells12071043] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/30/2022] [Revised: 03/24/2023] [Accepted: 03/25/2023] [Indexed: 03/31/2023] Open
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Microgravity (µg) has a massive impact on the health of space explorers. Microgravity changes the proliferation, differentiation, and growth of cells. As crewed spaceflights into deep space are being planned along with the commercialization of space travelling, researchers have focused on gene regulation in cells and organisms exposed to real (r-) and simulated (s-) µg. In particular, cancer and metastasis research benefits from the findings obtained under µg conditions. Gene regulation is a key factor in a cell or an organism’s ability to sustain life and respond to environmental changes. It is a universal process to control the amount, location, and timing in which genes are expressed. In this review, we provide an overview of µg-induced changes in the numerous mechanisms involved in gene regulation, including regulatory proteins, microRNAs, and the chemical modification of DNA. In particular, we discuss the current knowledge about the impact of microgravity on gene regulation in different types of bacteria, protists, fungi, animals, humans, and cells with a focus on the brain, eye, endothelium, immune system, cartilage, muscle, bone, and various cancers as well as recent findings in plants. Importantly, the obtained data clearly imply that µg experiments can support translational medicine on Earth.
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- Thomas J. Corydon
- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Hoegh Guldbergs Gade 10, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Ophthalmology, Aarhus University Hospital, Palle Juul-Jensens Blvd. 99, 8200 Aarhus, Denmark
- Correspondence: ; Tel.: +45-28-992-179
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- Department of Microgravity and Translational Regenerative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- Clinic for Plastic, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke University, Leipziger Straße 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
- Research Group ‘Magdeburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung unter Raumfahrt-und Schwerelosigkeitsbedingungen’ (MARS), Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Gravitational Biology Group, Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander University, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Postgraduate Program in Health and Environment, University of Joinville Region, Joinville 89219-710, SC, Brazil
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Institute for Molecular Biosciences, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, 60438 Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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- Department of Microgravity and Translational Regenerative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- Clinic for Plastic, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke University, Leipziger Straße 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
- Research Group ‘Magdeburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung unter Raumfahrt-und Schwerelosigkeitsbedingungen’ (MARS), Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Microgravity and Translational Regenerative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- Research Group ‘Magdeburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung unter Raumfahrt-und Schwerelosigkeitsbedingungen’ (MARS), Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Postgraduate Program in Health and Environment, University of Joinville Region, Joinville 89219-710, SC, Brazil
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- Gravitational Biology Group, Department of Biology, Friedrich-Alexander University, 91058 Erlangen, Germany
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- Department of Microgravity and Translational Regenerative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- Clinic for Plastic, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke University, Leipziger Straße 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
- Research Group ‘Magdeburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung unter Raumfahrt-und Schwerelosigkeitsbedingungen’ (MARS), Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
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- Department of Microgravity and Translational Regenerative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- Research Group ‘Magdeburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung unter Raumfahrt-und Schwerelosigkeitsbedingungen’ (MARS), Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- The Saban Research Institute, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, University of Southern California, 4650 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90027, USA
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- Department of Biomedicine, Aarhus University, Hoegh Guldbergs Gade 10, 8000 Aarhus, Denmark
- Department of Microgravity and Translational Regenerative Medicine, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
- Clinic for Plastic, Aesthetic and Hand Surgery, Medical Faculty, University Hospital Magdeburg, Otto von Guericke University, Leipziger Straße 44, 39120 Magdeburg, Germany
- Research Group ‘Magdeburger Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Forschung unter Raumfahrt-und Schwerelosigkeitsbedingungen’ (MARS), Otto von Guericke University, Universitätsplatz 2, 39106 Magdeburg, Germany
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Scott RT, Sanders LM, Antonsen EL, Hastings JJA, Park SM, Mackintosh G, Reynolds RJ, Hoarfrost AL, Sawyer A, Greene CS, Glicksberg BS, Theriot CA, Berrios DC, Miller J, Babdor J, Barker R, Baranzini SE, Beheshti A, Chalk S, Delgado-Aparicio GM, Haendel M, Hamid AA, Heller P, Jamieson D, Jarvis KJ, Kalantari J, Khezeli K, Komarova SV, Komorowski M, Kothiyal P, Mahabal A, Manor U, Garcia Martin H, Mason CE, Matar M, Mias GI, Myers JG, Nelson C, Oribello J, Parsons-Wingerter P, Prabhu RK, Qutub AA, Rask J, Saravia-Butler A, Saria S, Singh NK, Snyder M, Soboczenski F, Soman K, Van Valen D, Venkateswaran K, Warren L, Worthey L, Yang JH, Zitnik M, Costes SV. Biomonitoring and precision health in deep space supported by artificial intelligence. NAT MACH INTELL 2023. [DOI: 10.1038/s42256-023-00617-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 03/28/2023]
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Pisareva E, Roch B, Sanchez C, Pastor B, Mirandola A, Diab-Assaf M, Mazard T, Prévostel C, Al Amir Dache Z, Thierry AR. Comparison of the structures and topologies of plasma extracted circulating nuclear and mitochondrial cell-free DNA. Front Genet 2023; 14:1104732. [PMID: 37152979 PMCID: PMC10158822 DOI: 10.3389/fgene.2023.1104732] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/22/2022] [Accepted: 02/27/2023] [Indexed: 05/09/2023] Open
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Introduction: The function, origin and structural features of circulating nuclear DNA (cir-nDNA) and mitochondrial DNA (cir-mtDNA) are poorly known, even though they have been investigated in numerous clinical studies, and are involved in a number of routine clinical applications. Based on our previous report disproving the conventional plasma isolation used for cirDNA analysis, this work enables a direct topological comparison of the circulating structures associated with nuclear DNA and mitochondrial cell-free DNA. Materials and methods: We used a Q-PCR and low-pass whole genome sequencing (LP-WGS) combination approach of cir-nDNA and cir-mtDNA, extracted using a procedure that eliminates platelet activation during the plasma isolation process to prevent mitochondria release in the extracellular milieu. Various physical procedures, such as filtration and differential centrifugation, were employed to infer their circulating structures. Results: DSP-S cir-mtDNA mean size profiles distributed on a slightly shorter range than SSP-S. SSP-S detected 40-fold more low-sized cir-mtDNA fragments (<90 bp/nt) and three-fold less long-sized fragments (>200 bp/nt) than DSP-S. The ratio of the fragment number below 90 bp over the fragment number above 200 bp was very homogenous among both DSP-S and SSP-S profiles, being 134-fold lower with DSP-S than with SSP-S. Cir-mtDNA and cir-nDNA DSP-S and SSP-S mean size profiles of healthy individuals ranged in different intervals with periodic sub-peaks only detectable with cir-nDNA. The very low amount of cir-mtDNA fragments of short size observed suggested that most of the cir-mtDNA is poorly fragmented and appearing longer than ∼1,000 bp, the readout limit of this LP-WGS method. Data suggested that cir-nDNA is, among DNA extracted in plasma, associated with ∼8.6% of large structures (apoptotic bodies, large extracellular vesicles (EVs), cell debris…), ∼27.7% in chromatin and small EVs and ∼63.7% mainly in oligo- and mono-nucleosomes. By contrast, cir-mtDNA appeared to be preponderantly (75.7%) associated with extracellular mitochondria, either in its free form or with large EVs; to a lesser extent, it was also associated with other structures: small EVs (∼18.4%), and exosomes or protein complexes (∼5.9%). Conclusion: This is the first study to directly compare the structural features of cir-nDNA and cir-mtDNA. The significant differences revealed between both are due to the DNA topological structure contained in the nucleus (chromatin) and in the mitochondria (plasmid) that determine their biological stability in blood. Although cir-nDNA and cir-mtDNA are principally associated with mono-nucleosomes and cell-free mitochondria, our study highlights the diversity of the circulating structures associated with cell-free DNA. They consequently have different pharmacokinetics as well as physiological functions. Thus, any accurate evaluation of their biological or diagnostic individual properties must relies on appropriate pre-analytics, and optimally on the isolation or enrichment of one category of their cirDNA associated structures.
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- Ekaterina Pisareva
- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
- Thoracic Oncology Unit, Arnaud De Villeneuve Hospital, University Hospital of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
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- Faculty of Sciences II, Lebanese University Fanar, Beirut, Lebanon
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
- ICM, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
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- IRCM, Institut de Recherche en Cancérologie de Montpellier, INSERM U1194, Montpellier University, Montpellier, France
- ICM, Institut Régional du Cancer de Montpellier, Montpellier, France
- *Correspondence: Alain R. Thierry,
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Prolonged Exposure to Simulated Microgravity Changes Release of Small Extracellular Vesicle in Breast Cancer Cells. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms232416095. [PMID: 36555738 PMCID: PMC9781806 DOI: 10.3390/ijms232416095] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/01/2022] [Revised: 12/14/2022] [Accepted: 12/14/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022] Open
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Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer incidence worldwide and among the five leading causes of cancer mortality. Despite major improvements in early detection and new treatment approaches, the need for better outcomes and quality of life for patients is still high. Extracellular vesicles play an important role in tumor biology, as they are able to transfer information between cells of different origins and locations. Their potential value as biomarkers or for targeted tumor therapy is apparent. In this study, we analyzed the supernatants of MCF-7 breast cancer cells, which were harvested following 5 or 10 days of simulated microgravity on a Random Positioning Machine (RPM). The primary results showed a substantial increase in released vesicles following incubation under simulated microgravity at both time points. The distribution of subpopulations regarding their surface protein expression is also altered; the minimal changes between the time points hint at an early adaption. This is the first step in gaining further insight into the mechanisms of tumor progression, metastasis, the education of the tumor microenvironments, and preparation of the metastatic niche. Additionally, this may lighten up the processes of the rapid cellular adaptions in the organisms of space travelers during spaceflights.
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New Perspectives on the Importance of Cell-Free DNA Biology. Diagnostics (Basel) 2022; 12:diagnostics12092147. [PMID: 36140548 PMCID: PMC9497998 DOI: 10.3390/diagnostics12092147] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 13.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/17/2022] [Revised: 08/24/2022] [Accepted: 08/31/2022] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Body fluids are constantly replenished with a population of genetically diverse cell-free DNA (cfDNA) fragments, representing a vast reservoir of information reflecting real-time changes in the host and metagenome. As many body fluids can be collected non-invasively in a one-off and serial fashion, this reservoir can be tapped to develop assays for the diagnosis, prognosis, and monitoring of wide-ranging pathologies, such as solid tumors, fetal genetic abnormalities, rejected organ transplants, infections, and potentially many others. The translation of cfDNA research into useful clinical tests is gaining momentum, with recent progress being driven by rapidly evolving preanalytical and analytical procedures, integrated bioinformatics, and machine learning algorithms. Yet, despite these spectacular advances, cfDNA remains a very challenging analyte due to its immense heterogeneity and fluctuation in vivo. It is increasingly recognized that high-fidelity reconstruction of the information stored in cfDNA, and in turn the development of tests that are fit for clinical roll-out, requires a much deeper understanding of both the physico-chemical features of cfDNA and the biological, physiological, lifestyle, and environmental factors that modulate it. This is a daunting task, but with significant upsides. In this review we showed how expanded knowledge on cfDNA biology and faithful reverse-engineering of cfDNA samples promises to (i) augment the sensitivity and specificity of existing cfDNA assays; (ii) expand the repertoire of disease-specific cfDNA markers, thereby leading to the development of increasingly powerful assays; (iii) reshape personal molecular medicine; and (iv) have an unprecedented impact on genetics research.
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Cope H, Willis CR, MacKay MJ, Rutter LA, Toh LS, Williams PM, Herranz R, Borg J, Bezdan D, Giacomello S, Muratani M, Mason CE, Etheridge T, Szewczyk NJ. Routine omics collection is a golden opportunity for European human research in space and analog environments. PATTERNS 2022; 3:100550. [PMID: 36277820 PMCID: PMC9583032 DOI: 10.1016/j.patter.2022.100550] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Rai AK, Rajan KS, Bisserier M, Brojakowska A, Sebastian A, Evans AC, Coleman MA, Mills PJ, Arakelyan A, Uchida S, Hadri L, Goukassian DA, Garikipati VNS. Spaceflight-Associated Changes of snoRNAs in Peripheral Blood Mononuclear Cells and Plasma Exosomes-A Pilot Study. Front Cardiovasc Med 2022; 9:886689. [PMID: 35811715 PMCID: PMC9267956 DOI: 10.3389/fcvm.2022.886689] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/28/2022] [Accepted: 06/01/2022] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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During spaceflight, astronauts are exposed to various physiological and psychological stressors that have been associated with adverse health effects. Therefore, there is an unmet need to develop novel diagnostic tools to predict early alterations in astronauts' health. Small nucleolar RNA (snoRNA) is a type of short non-coding RNA (60-300 nucleotides) known to guide 2'-O-methylation (Nm) or pseudouridine (ψ) of ribosomal RNA (rRNA), small nuclear RNA (snRNA), or messenger RNA (mRNA). Emerging evidence suggests that dysregulated snoRNAs may be key players in regulating fundamental cellular mechanisms and in the pathogenesis of cancer, heart, and neurological disease. Therefore, we sought to determine whether the spaceflight-induced snoRNA changes in astronaut's peripheral blood (PB) plasma extracellular vesicles (PB-EV) and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs). Using unbiased small RNA sequencing (sRNAseq), we evaluated changes in PB-EV snoRNA content isolated from astronauts (n = 5/group) who underwent median 12-day long Shuttle missions between 1998 and 2001. Using stringent cutoff (fold change > 2 or log2-fold change >1, FDR < 0.05), we detected 21 down-and 9-up-regulated snoRNAs in PB-EVs 3 days after return (R + 3) compared to 10 days before launch (L-10). qPCR validation revealed that SNORA74A was significantly down-regulated at R + 3 compared to L-10. We next determined snoRNA expression levels in astronauts' PBMCs at R + 3 and L-10 (n = 6/group). qPCR analysis further confirmed a significant increase in SNORA19 and SNORA47 in astronauts' PBMCs at R + 3 compared to L-10. Notably, many downregulated snoRNA-guided rRNA modifications, including four Nms and five ψs. Our findings revealed that spaceflight induced changes in PB-EV and PBMCs snoRNA expression, thus suggesting snoRNAs may serve as potential novel biomarkers for monitoring astronauts' health.
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- Amit Kumar Rai
- Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Structural Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
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- Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, United States
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- Physical and Life Sciences Directorate, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, Livermore, CA, United States
- Department of Radiation Oncology, University of California, Davis, Sacramento, CA, United States
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- Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA, United States
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- Group of Bioinformatics, Institute of Molecular Biology, National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia, Yerevan, Armenia
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- Center for RNA Medicine, Department of Clinical Medicine, Aalborg University, Copenhagen, Denmark
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute, Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Emergency Medicine, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States
- Dorothy M. Davis Heart Lung and Research Institute, The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center, Columbus, OH, United States
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Zhang X, Takeuchi T, Takeda A, Mochizuki H, Nagai Y. Comparison of serum and plasma as a source of blood extracellular vesicles: Increased levels of platelet-derived particles in serum extracellular vesicle fractions alter content profiles from plasma extracellular vesicle fractions. PLoS One 2022; 17:e0270634. [PMID: 35749554 PMCID: PMC9231772 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0270634] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/12/2021] [Accepted: 06/15/2022] [Indexed: 11/30/2022] Open
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Extracellular vesicles (EVs) have attracted much attention as potential diagnostic biomarkers for human diseases. Although both plasma and serum are utilized as a source of blood EVs, it remains unclear whether, how and to what extent the choice of plasma and serum affects the experimental results. To address this issue, in this study, we performed comprehensive characterization of EV fractions derived from plasma and serum, and investigated the differences between these blood EVs. We demonstrated by nanoparticle tracking analysis that EV fractions derived from serum contain more particles than those from plasma of mice. Proteomic analysis demonstrated that platelet-associated proteins are selectively enriched in serum EV fractions from both mice and humans. A literature review of proteomic data of human blood EVs reported by other groups further confirmed that selective enrichment of platelet-associated proteins is commonly observed in serum EVs, and confers different proteome profiles to plasma EVs. Our data provide experimental evidence that EV fractions derived from serum generally contain additional EVs that are released from platelets, which may qualitatively and quantitatively alter EV profiles when using serum as a source of blood EVs.
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- Xiaoman Zhang
- Department of Neurotherapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Neurology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Neurotherapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Life Science Research Institute, Kindai University, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan
- PRESTO, Japan Science and Technology Agency (JST), Osaka, Japan
- * E-mail: (TT); (YN)
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- Department of Neurotherapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Neurology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
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- Department of Neurotherapeutics, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Neurology, Kindai University Faculty of Medicine, Osaka-Sayama, Osaka, Japan
- Department of Neurology, Osaka University Graduate School of Medicine, Suita, Osaka, Japan
- * E-mail: (TT); (YN)
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Goukassian D, Arakelyan A, Brojakowska A, Bisserier M, Hakobyan S, Hadri L, Rai AK, Evans A, Sebastian A, Truongcao M, Gonzalez C, Bajpai A, Cheng Z, Dubey PK, Addya S, Mills P, Walsh K, Kishore R, Coleman M, Garikipati VNS. Space flight associated changes in astronauts' plasma-derived small extracellular vesicle microRNA: Biomarker identification. Clin Transl Med 2022; 12:e845. [PMID: 35653543 PMCID: PMC9162436 DOI: 10.1002/ctm2.845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/11/2022] [Revised: 04/07/2022] [Accepted: 04/11/2022] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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- David Goukassian
- Cardiovascular Research InstituteIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
- Center for Translational MedicineTemple University School of MedicinePhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Bioinformatics GroupInstitute of Molecular Biology, NAS RAYerevanArmenia
- Department of Bioengineering, Bioinformatics and Molecular BiologyRussian‐Armenian UniversityYerevanArmenia
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- Cardiovascular Research InstituteIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Cardiovascular Research InstituteIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Bioinformatics GroupInstitute of Molecular Biology, NAS RAYerevanArmenia
- Armenian Bioinformatics InstituteYerevanArmenia
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- Cardiovascular Research InstituteIcahn School of Medicine at Mount SinaiNew YorkNew YorkUSA
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- Department of Emergency MedicineThe Ohio State University Wexner Medical CenterColumbusOhioUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyUniversity of California DavisSacramentoCaliforniaUSA
- Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryLivermoreCaliforniaUSA
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- Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryLivermoreCaliforniaUSA
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- Center for Translational MedicineTemple University School of MedicinePhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Center for Translational MedicineTemple University School of MedicinePhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Center for Translational MedicineTemple University School of MedicinePhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Center for Translational MedicineTemple University School of MedicinePhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Department of Biomedical EngineeringThe University of Alabama at BirminghamBirminghamAlabamaUSA
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- Thomas Jefferson UniversityPhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Integrative Health and Mind‐Body Biomarker LaboratoryUniversity of San DiegoSan DiegoCaliforniaUSA
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- University of Virginia School of MedicineCharlottesvilleVirginiaUSA
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- Center for Translational MedicineTemple University School of MedicinePhiladelphiaPennsylvaniaUSA
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- Department of Radiation OncologyUniversity of California DavisSacramentoCaliforniaUSA
- Lawrence Livermore National LaboratoryLivermoreCaliforniaUSA
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- Department of Emergency MedicineThe Ohio State University Wexner Medical CenterColumbusOhioUSA
- Dorothy M. Davis Heart Lung and Research InstituteThe Ohio State University Wexner Medical CenterColumbusOhioUSA
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The Fight against Cancer by Microgravity: The Multicellular Spheroid as a Metastasis Model. Int J Mol Sci 2022; 23:ijms23063073. [PMID: 35328492 PMCID: PMC8953941 DOI: 10.3390/ijms23063073] [Citation(s) in RCA: 28] [Impact Index Per Article: 14.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2022] [Revised: 03/10/2022] [Accepted: 03/10/2022] [Indexed: 02/06/2023] Open
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Cancer is a disease exhibiting uncontrollable cell growth and spreading to other parts of the organism. It is a heavy, worldwide burden for mankind with high morbidity and mortality. Therefore, groundbreaking research and innovations are necessary. Research in space under microgravity (µg) conditions is a novel approach with the potential to fight cancer and develop future cancer therapies. Space travel is accompanied by adverse effects on our health, and there is a need to counteract these health problems. On the cellular level, studies have shown that real (r-) and simulated (s-) µg impact survival, apoptosis, proliferation, migration, and adhesion as well as the cytoskeleton, the extracellular matrix, focal adhesion, and growth factors in cancer cells. Moreover, the µg-environment induces in vitro 3D tumor models (multicellular spheroids and organoids) with a high potential for preclinical drug targeting, cancer drug development, and studying the processes of cancer progression and metastasis on a molecular level. This review focuses on the effects of r- and s-µg on different types of cells deriving from thyroid, breast, lung, skin, and prostate cancer, as well as tumors of the gastrointestinal tract. In addition, we summarize the current knowledge of the impact of µg on cancerous stem cells. The information demonstrates that µg has become an important new technology for increasing current knowledge of cancer biology.
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NucPosDB: a database of nucleosome positioning in vivo and nucleosomics of cell-free DNA. Chromosoma 2022; 131:19-28. [PMID: 35061087 PMCID: PMC8776978 DOI: 10.1007/s00412-021-00766-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/24/2021] [Revised: 11/24/2021] [Accepted: 12/20/2021] [Indexed: 01/25/2023]
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Nucleosome positioning is involved in many gene regulatory processes happening in the cell, and it may change as cells differentiate or respond to the changing microenvironment in a healthy or diseased organism. One important implication of nucleosome positioning in clinical epigenetics is its use in the “nucleosomics” analysis of cell-free DNA (cfDNA) for the purpose of patient diagnostics in liquid biopsies. The rationale for this is that the apoptotic nucleases that digest chromatin of the dying cells mostly cut DNA between nucleosomes. Thus, the short pieces of DNA in body fluids reflect the positions of nucleosomes in the cells of origin. Here, we report a systematic nucleosomics database — NucPosDB — curating published nucleosome positioning datasets in vivo as well as datasets of sequenced cell-free DNA (cfDNA) that reflect nucleosome positioning in situ in the cells of origin. Users can select subsets of the database by a number of criteria and then obtain raw or processed data. NucPosDB also reports the originally determined regions with stable nucleosome occupancy across several individuals with a given condition. An additional section provides a catalogue of computational tools for the analysis of nucleosome positioning or cfDNA experiments and theoretical algorithms for the prediction of nucleosome positioning preferences from DNA sequence. We provide an overview of the field, describe the structure of the database in this context, and demonstrate data variability using examples of different medical conditions. NucPosDB is useful both for the analysis of fundamental gene regulation processes and the training of computational models for patient diagnostics based on cfDNA. The database currently curates ~ 400 publications on nucleosome positioning in cell lines and in situ as well as cfDNA from > 10,000 patients and healthy volunteers. For open-access cfDNA datasets as well as key MNase-seq datasets in human cells, NucPosDB allows downloading processed mapped data in addition to the regions with stable nucleosome occupancy. NucPosDB is available at https://generegulation.org/nucposdb/.
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Bisserier M, Shanmughapriya S, Rai AK, Gonzalez C, Brojakowska A, Garikipati VNS, Madesh M, Mills PJ, Walsh K, Arakelyan A, Kishore R, Hadri L, Goukassian DA. Cell-Free Mitochondrial DNA as a Potential Biomarker for Astronauts' Health. J Am Heart Assoc 2021; 10:e022055. [PMID: 34666498 PMCID: PMC8751818 DOI: 10.1161/jaha.121.022055] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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Background Space travel–associated stressors such as microgravity or radiation exposure have been reported in astronauts after short‐ and long‐duration missions aboard the International Space Station. Despite risk mitigation strategies, adverse health effects remain a concern. Thus, there is a need to develop new diagnostic tools to facilitate early detection of physiological stress. Methods and Results We measured the levels of circulating cell‐free mitochondrial DNA in blood plasma of 14 astronauts 10 days before launch, the day of landing, and 3 days after return. Our results revealed a significant increase of cell‐free mitochondrial DNA in the plasma on the day of landing and 3 days after return with vast ~2 to 355‐fold interastronaut variability. In addition, gene expression analysis of peripheral blood mononuclear cells revealed a significant increase in markers of inflammation, oxidative stress, and DNA damage. Conclusions Our study suggests that cell‐free mitochondrial DNA abundance might be a biomarker of stress or immune response related to microgravity, radiation, and other environmental factors during space flight.
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- Malik Bisserier
- Cardiovascular Research Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York NY
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- Department of Cellular and Molecular Physiology Heart and Vascular Institute PennState University Hershey PA
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- Department of Emergency Medicine Dorothy M. Davis Heart Lung and Research InstituteOhio State University Wexner Medical Center Columbus OH
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- Center for Precision Medicine University of Texas Health San Antonio San Antonio TX
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York NY
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- Department of Emergency Medicine Dorothy M. Davis Heart Lung and Research InstituteOhio State University Wexner Medical Center Columbus OH
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- Center for Precision Medicine University of Texas Health San Antonio San Antonio TX
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- Center of Excellence for Research and Training in Integrative Health University of California San Diego La Jolla CA
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- Robert M. Berne Cardiovascular Research Center University of Virginia Charlottesville VA
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- Bioinformatics Group The Institute of Molecular Biology The National Academy of Sciences of the Republic of Armenia Yerevan Armenia
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- Center for Translation Medicine Temple University Philadelphia PA
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York NY
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- Cardiovascular Research Institute Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai New York NY
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Ainsbury EA, Moquet J, Sun M, Barnard S, Ellender M, Lloyd D. The future of biological dosimetry in mass casualty radiation emergency response, personalized radiation risk estimation and space radiation protection. Int J Radiat Biol 2021; 98:421-427. [PMID: 34515621 DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2021.1980629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
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PURPOSE The aim of this brief personal, high level review is to consider the state of the art for biological dosimetry for radiation routine and emergency response, and the potential future progress in this fascinating and active field. Four areas in which biomarkers may contribute to scientific advancement through improved dose and exposure characterization, as well as potential contributions to personalized risk estimation, are considered: emergency dosimetry, molecular epidemiology, personalized medical dosimetry, and space travel. CONCLUSION Ionizing radiation biodosimetry is an exciting field which will continue to benefit from active networking and collaboration with the wider fields of radiation research and radiation emergency response to ensure effective, joined up approaches to triage; radiation epidemiology to assess long term, low dose, radiation risk; radiation protection of workers, optimization and justification of radiation for diagnosis or treatment of patients in clinical uses, and protection of individuals traveling to space.
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- Elizabeth A Ainsbury
- Public Health England, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, UK.,Environmental Research Group within the School of Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at Imperial College of Science, Technology and Medicine, London, UK
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- Public Health England, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, UK
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- Public Health England, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, UK
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- Public Health England, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, UK
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- Public Health England, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, UK
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- Public Health England, Centre for Radiation, Chemical and Environmental Hazards, Chilton, UK
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Beheshti A, McDonald JT, Hada M, Takahashi A, Mason CE, Mognato M. Genomic Changes Driven by Radiation-Induced DNA Damage and Microgravity in Human Cells. Int J Mol Sci 2021; 22:ijms221910507. [PMID: 34638848 PMCID: PMC8508777 DOI: 10.3390/ijms221910507] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 4.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/02/2021] [Revised: 09/24/2021] [Accepted: 09/25/2021] [Indexed: 12/13/2022] Open
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The space environment consists of a complex mixture of different types of ionizing radiation and altered gravity that represents a threat to humans during space missions. In particular, individual radiation sensitivity is strictly related to the risk of space radiation carcinogenesis. Therefore, in view of future missions to the Moon and Mars, there is an urgent need to estimate as accurately as possible the individual risk from space exposure to improve the safety of space exploration. In this review, we survey the combined effects from the two main physical components of the space environment, ionizing radiation and microgravity, to alter the genetics and epigenetics of human cells, considering both real and simulated space conditions. Data collected from studies on human cells are discussed for their potential use to estimate individual radiation carcinogenesis risk from space exposure.
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- Afshin Beheshti
- KBR, NASA Ames Research Center, Space Biosciences Division, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
- Correspondence: or (A.B.); (M.M.)
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, DC 20007, USA;
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- Radiation Institute for Science & Engineering, Prairie View A&M University, Prairie View, TX 77446, USA;
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- Gunma University Heavy Ion Medical Center, 3-39-22 Showa-Machi, Maebashi 371-8511, Gunma, Japan;
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA;
- The World Quant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Padova, Via U. Bassi 58/B, 35131 Padova, Italy
- Correspondence: or (A.B.); (M.M.)
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Bailey SM, Luxton JJ, McKenna MJ, Taylor LE, George KA, Jhavar SG, Swanson GP. Ad Astra - telomeres in space! Int J Radiat Biol 2021; 98:395-403. [PMID: 34270368 DOI: 10.1080/09553002.2021.1956010] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/13/2022]
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PURPOSE My journey to the stars began as I - along with the whole world - stood still and watched Neil Armstrong take those first small steps on the Moon. Fast forward 50 years and NASA astronauts Scott Kelly and Christina Koch each spend nearly a year in space aboard the International Space Station (ISS), a remarkable multinational collaborative project and floating U.S. National Laboratory that has supported continuous human presence in low Earth orbit for the past 20 years. Marking a new era of human space exploration, the first commercial rocket, SpaceX Falcon 9, recently launched NASA astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken in the Crew Dragon spacecraft Endeavor to the ISS and returned safely to Earth. NASA and its commercial partners are rapidly advancing innovative space technologies, and with the recently announced Artemis team of astronauts, plans to send the first woman and next man back to the moon and establish sustainable exploration by the end of the decade. Humankind will then be poised to take the next giant leap - pioneering human exploration of Mars. CONCLUSIONS Historically, fewer than 600 individuals have participated in spaceflight, the vast majority of whom have been middle aged males (35-55 years) on short duration missions (less than 20 days). Thus, as the number and diversity of space travelers increase, a better understanding of how long-duration spaceflight affects human health is essential to maintaining individual astronaut performance during, and improving disease and aging trajectories following, future exploration missions. Here, I review findings from our NASA Twins Study and Telomeres investigations, highlighting potential mechanistic roles of chronic space radiation exposure in changes in telomere length and persistent DNA damage responses associated with long-duration spaceflight. Importantly, similar trends were observed in prostate cancer patients undergoing intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT), additional support specifically for the role of radiation exposure. Individual differences in response were also observed in both cohorts, underscoring the importance of developing personalized approaches for evaluating human health effects and long-term outcomes associated with radiation exposures, whether on Earth or living in the extreme environment of space.
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- Susan M Bailey
- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.,Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.,Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.,Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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da Silveira WA, Fazelinia H, Rosenthal SB, Laiakis EC, Kim MS, Meydan C, Kidane Y, Rathi KS, Smith SM, Stear B, Ying Y, Zhang Y, Foox J, Zanello S, Crucian B, Wang D, Nugent A, Costa HA, Zwart SR, Schrepfer S, Elworth RAL, Sapoval N, Treangen T, MacKay M, Gokhale NS, Horner SM, Singh LN, Wallace DC, Willey JS, Schisler JC, Meller R, McDonald JT, Fisch KM, Hardiman G, Taylor D, Mason CE, Costes SV, Beheshti A. Comprehensive Multi-omics Analysis Reveals Mitochondrial Stress as a Central Biological Hub for Spaceflight Impact. Cell 2021; 183:1185-1201.e20. [PMID: 33242417 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.11.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 165] [Impact Index Per Article: 55.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2020] [Revised: 10/01/2020] [Accepted: 11/02/2020] [Indexed: 12/11/2022]
Abstract
Spaceflight is known to impose changes on human physiology with unknown molecular etiologies. To reveal these causes, we used a multi-omics, systems biology analytical approach using biomedical profiles from fifty-nine astronauts and data from NASA's GeneLab derived from hundreds of samples flown in space to determine transcriptomic, proteomic, metabolomic, and epigenetic responses to spaceflight. Overall pathway analyses on the multi-omics datasets showed significant enrichment for mitochondrial processes, as well as innate immunity, chronic inflammation, cell cycle, circadian rhythm, and olfactory functions. Importantly, NASA's Twin Study provided a platform to confirm several of our principal findings. Evidence of altered mitochondrial function and DNA damage was also found in the urine and blood metabolic data compiled from the astronaut cohort and NASA Twin Study data, indicating mitochondrial stress as a consistent phenotype of spaceflight.
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children, Dallas, TX 75219, USA
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Weill Cornell Medical College, New York, NY 10065, USA
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 94115, USA
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- Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA 30310, USA
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- Georgetown University Medical Center, Washington D.C. 20057, USA
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- Queens University Belfast, Belfast BT9 5DL, UK; Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC 29425, USA
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- The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- KBR, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
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Afshinnekoo E, Scott RT, MacKay MJ, Pariset E, Cekanaviciute E, Barker R, Gilroy S, Hassane D, Smith SM, Zwart SR, Nelman-Gonzalez M, Crucian BE, Ponomarev SA, Orlov OI, Shiba D, Muratani M, Yamamoto M, Richards SE, Vaishampayan PA, Meydan C, Foox J, Myrrhe J, Istasse E, Singh N, Venkateswaran K, Keune JA, Ray HE, Basner M, Miller J, Vitaterna MH, Taylor DM, Wallace D, Rubins K, Bailey SM, Grabham P, Costes SV, Mason CE, Beheshti A. Fundamental Biological Features of Spaceflight: Advancing the Field to Enable Deep-Space Exploration. Cell 2021; 183:1162-1184. [PMID: 33242416 DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2020.10.050] [Citation(s) in RCA: 161] [Impact Index Per Article: 53.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/21/2020] [Revised: 10/28/2020] [Accepted: 10/29/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022]
Abstract
Research on astronaut health and model organisms have revealed six features of spaceflight biology that guide our current understanding of fundamental molecular changes that occur during space travel. The features include oxidative stress, DNA damage, mitochondrial dysregulation, epigenetic changes (including gene regulation), telomere length alterations, and microbiome shifts. Here we review the known hazards of human spaceflight, how spaceflight affects living systems through these six fundamental features, and the associated health risks of space exploration. We also discuss the essential issues related to the health and safety of astronauts involved in future missions, especially planned long-duration and Martian missions.
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- Ebrahim Afshinnekoo
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Universities Space Research Association (USRA), Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Department of Botany, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI 53706, USA
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- Human Health and Performance Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Community Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- KBR, Human Health and Performance Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA
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- Human Health and Performance Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA
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- Institute for the Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123007 Moscow, Russia
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- Institute for the Biomedical Problems, Russian Academy of Sciences, 123007 Moscow, Russia
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- JEM Utilization Center, Human Spaceflight Technology Directorate, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), Ibaraki 305-8505, Japan
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- Transborder Medical Research Center, and Department of Genome Biology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8575, Japan
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- Department of Medical Biochemistry, Tohoku University Graduate School of Medicine, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8575, Japan; Department of Integrative Genomics, Tohoku Medical Megabank Organization, Tohoku University, 2-1 Seiryo-machi, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-8573, Japan
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- Bionetics, NASA Kennedy Space Center, Kennedy Space Center, Merritt Island, FL 32899, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- European Space Agency, Research and Payloads Group, Data Exploitation and Utilisation Strategy Office, 2200 AG Noordwijk, the Netherlands
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- European Space Agency, Research and Payloads Group, Data Exploitation and Utilisation Strategy Office, 2200 AG Noordwijk, the Netherlands
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- Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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- Biotechnology and Planetary Protection Group, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91109, USA
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- Space Medicine Operations Division, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA
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- ASRC Federal Space and Defense, Inc., Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Department of Psychiatry, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA; Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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- Center for Sleep and Circadian Biology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA; Department of Neurobiology, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA
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- Department of Biomedical Informatics, The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; The Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Center for Mitochondrial and Epigenomic Medicine, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA; The Department of Pediatrics, Perelman School of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA 19104, USA
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- Astronaut Office, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA
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- Department of Environmental & Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523, USA.
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- Center for Radiological Research, Department of Oncology, College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027, USA.
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA.
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, NY 10021, USA.
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- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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Malkani S, Chin CR, Cekanaviciute E, Mortreux M, Okinula H, Tarbier M, Schreurs AS, Shirazi-Fard Y, Tahimic CGT, Rodriguez DN, Sexton BS, Butler D, Verma A, Bezdan D, Durmaz C, MacKay M, Melnick A, Meydan C, Li S, Garrett-Bakelman F, Fromm B, Afshinnekoo E, Langhorst BW, Dimalanta ET, Cheng-Campbell M, Blaber E, Schisler JC, Vanderburg C, Friedländer MR, McDonald JT, Costes SV, Rutkove S, Grabham P, Mason CE, Beheshti A. Circulating miRNA Spaceflight Signature Reveals Targets for Countermeasure Development. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108448. [PMID: 33242410 PMCID: PMC8441986 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108448] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 6.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/18/2020] [Revised: 11/02/2020] [Accepted: 11/06/2020] [Indexed: 12/14/2022] Open
Abstract
We have identified and validated a spaceflight-associated microRNA (miRNA) signature that is shared by rodents and humans in response to simulated, short-duration and long-duration spaceflight. Previous studies have identified miRNAs that regulate rodent responses to spaceflight in low-Earth orbit, and we have confirmed the expression of these proposed spaceflight-associated miRNAs in rodents reacting to simulated spaceflight conditions. Moreover, astronaut samples from the NASA Twins Study confirmed these expression signatures in miRNA sequencing, single-cell RNA sequencing (scRNA-seq), and single-cell assay for transposase accessible chromatin (scATAC-seq) data. Additionally, a subset of these miRNAs (miR-125, miR-16, and let-7a) was found to regulate vascular damage caused by simulated deep space radiation. To demonstrate the physiological relevance of key spaceflight-associated miRNAs, we utilized antagomirs to inhibit their expression and successfully rescue simulated deep-space-radiation-mediated damage in human 3D vascular constructs.
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- Sherina Malkani
- Blue Marble Space Institute of Science, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Molecular Biosciences, the Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Institute of Medical Virology and Epidemiology of Viral Diseases, University Hospital, Tubingen, Germany
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- The Jackson Laboratories, Farmington, CT, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia School of Medicine, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Molecular Biosciences, the Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Biotechnology & Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA
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- Center for Biotechnology & Interdisciplinary Studies, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, USA; Universities Space Research Association, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Mountain View, CA 94035, USA
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- McAllister Heart Institute, Department of Pharmacology, and Department of Pathology and Lab Medicine, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
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- Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA
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- Science for Life Laboratory, Department of Molecular Biosciences, the Wenner-Gren Institute, Stockholm University, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Radiation Medicine, Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington DC 20007, USA
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- Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA
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- Department of Neurology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
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- Center for Radiological Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10032, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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- KBR, Space Biosciences Division, NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field, CA 94035, USA; Stanley Center for Psychiatric Research, Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA 02142, USA.
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Gertz ML, Chin CR, Tomoiaga D, MacKay M, Chang C, Butler D, Afshinnekoo E, Bezdan D, Schmidt MA, Mozsary C, Melnick A, Garrett-Bakelman F, Crucian B, Lee SMC, Zwart SR, Smith SM, Meydan C, Mason CE. Multi-omic, Single-Cell, and Biochemical Profiles of Astronauts Guide Pharmacological Strategies for Returning to Gravity. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108429. [PMID: 33242408 PMCID: PMC9444344 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108429] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/15/2020] [Revised: 10/07/2020] [Accepted: 11/03/2020] [Indexed: 12/29/2022] Open
Abstract
The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Twins Study created an integrative molecular profile of an astronaut during NASA’s first 1-year mission on the International Space Station (ISS) and included comparisons to an identical Earth-bound twin. The unique biochemical profiles observed when landing on Earth after such a long mission (e.g., spikes in interleukin-1 [IL-1]/6/10, c-reactive protein [CRP], C-C motif chemokine ligand 2 [CCL2], IL-1 receptor antagonist [IL-1ra], and tumor necrosis factor alpha [TNF-α]) opened new questions about the human body’s response to gravity and how to plan for future astronauts, particularly around initiation or resolution of inflammation. Here, single-cell, multi-omic (100-plex epitope profile and gene expression) profiling of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) showed changes to blood cell composition and gene expression post-flight, specifically for monocytes and dendritic cell precursors. These were consistent with flight-induced cytokine and immune system stress, followed by skeletal muscle regeneration in response to gravity. Finally, we examined these profiles relative to 6-month missions in 28 other astronauts and detail potential pharmacological interventions for returning to gravity in future missions. Gertz et al. present a re-analysis of the landing data from the NASA Twins Study, suggesting that the biochemical signature reflects muscle regeneration after atrophy rather than a detrimental inflammatory response. This is mediated through muscle-derived IL-6 anti-inflammatory cascades. Single-cell analysis supports this role. Potential pharmacological interventions are also discussed.
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- Monica L Gertz
- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; Interdisciplinary Program in Neuroscience, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA 22030, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; Becton Dickinson & Co., Washington, DC 20001
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; Institute of Medical Virology and Epidemiology of Viral Diseases, University Hospital, Tübingen 72076, Germany
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- Advanced Pattern Analysis and Countermeasures Group, Boulder, CO 80302, USA; Sovaris Aerospace, Boulder, CO 80302, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA; University of Virginia Cancer Center, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
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- Human Health and Performance Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA
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- Department of Preventive Medicine and Population Health, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX 77555, USA
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- Human Health and Performance Directorate, NASA Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX 77058, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10021, USA; The Feil Family Brain and Mind Research Institute, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY 10065, USA.
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Luxton JJ, McKenna MJ, Taylor LE, George KA, Zwart SR, Crucian BE, Drel VR, Garrett-Bakelman FE, Mackay MJ, Butler D, Foox J, Grigorev K, Bezdan D, Meydan C, Smith SM, Sharma K, Mason CE, Bailey SM. Temporal Telomere and DNA Damage Responses in the Space Radiation Environment. Cell Rep 2020; 33:108435. [PMID: 33242411 DOI: 10.1016/j.celrep.2020.108435] [Citation(s) in RCA: 42] [Impact Index Per Article: 10.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/31/2020] [Revised: 09/15/2020] [Accepted: 11/04/2020] [Indexed: 02/08/2023] Open
Abstract
Telomeres, repetitive terminal features of chromosomes essential for maintaining genome integrity, shorten with cell division, lifestyle factors and stresses, and environmental exposures, and so they provide a robust biomarker of health, aging, and age-related diseases. We assessed telomere length dynamics (changes over time) in three unrelated astronauts before, during, and after 1-year or 6-month missions aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Similar to our results for National Aeronautics and Space Administration's (NASA's) One-Year Mission twin astronaut (Garrett-Bakelman et al., 2019), significantly longer telomeres were observed during spaceflight for two 6-month mission astronauts. Furthermore, telomere length shortened rapidly after return to Earth for all three crewmembers and, overall, telomere length tended to be shorter after spaceflight than before spaceflight. Consistent with chronic exposure to the space radiation environment, signatures of persistent DNA damage responses were also detected, including mitochondrial and oxidative stress, inflammation, and telomeric and chromosomal aberrations, which together provide potential mechanistic insight into spaceflight-specific telomere elongation.
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- Jared J Luxton
- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA
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- University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston, TX, USA
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- Center for Renal Precision Medicine, UT Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Medicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; Department of Medicine, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA; Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Genetics, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA
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- Center for Renal Precision Medicine, UT Health, San Antonio, TX, USA
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- Department of Physiology and Biophysics, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The WorldQuant Initiative for Quantitative Prediction, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA; The HRH Prince Alwaleed Bin Talal Bin Abdulaziz Alsaud Institute for Computational Biomedicine, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY, USA.
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- Department of Environmental and Radiological Health Sciences, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA; Cell and Molecular Biology Program, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO, USA.
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