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Endogenous mitochondrial NAD(P)H fluorescence can predict lifespan.

Christopher S Morrow | Pallas Yao | Carlos A Vergani-Junior | Praju Vikas Anekal | Paula Montero Llopis | Jeffrey W Miller | Bérénice A Benayoun | William B Mair
Communications biology | 2024

Many aging clocks have recently been developed to predict health outcomes and deconvolve heterogeneity in aging. However, existing clocks are limited by technical constraints, such as low spatial resolution, long processing time, sample destruction, and a bias towards specific aging phenotypes. Therefore, here we present a non-destructive, label-free and subcellular resolution approach for quantifying aging through optically resolving age-dependent changes to the biophysical properties of NAD(P)H in mitochondria through fluorescence lifetime imaging (FLIM) of endogenous NAD(P)H fluorescence. We uncover age-dependent changes to mitochondrial NAD(P)H across tissues in C. elegans that are associated with a decline in physiological function and construct non-destructive, label-free and cellular resolution models for prediction of age, which we refer to as "mito-NAD(P)H age clocks." Mito-NAD(P)H age clocks can resolve heterogeneity in the rate of aging across individuals and predict remaining lifespan. Moreover, we spatiotemporally resolve age-dependent changes to mitochondria across and within tissues, revealing multiple modes of asynchrony in aging and show that longevity is associated with a ubiquitous attenuation of these changes. Our data present a high-resolution view of mitochondrial NAD(P)H across aging, providing insights that broaden our understanding of how mitochondria change during aging and approaches which expand the toolkit to quantify aging.

Pubmed ID: 39572679

Associated grants

  • Agency: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Aging (U.S. National Institute on Aging),
    Id: R01AG044346
  • Agency: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Aging (U.S. National Institute on Aging),
    Id: F32AG085703
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AG067106
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AG044346
  • Agency: U.S. Department of Health & Human Services | NIH | National Institute on Aging (U.S. National Institute on Aging),
    Id: R01AG067106
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: R01 AG059595
  • Agency: NIA NIH HHS, United States
    Id: F32 AG085703

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