New Insights into the Role of Histone Changes in Aging

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  • Sun-Ju Yi
    Department of Biology, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Chungbuk, Korea
  • Kyunghwan Kim
    Department of Biology, School of Biological Sciences, College of Natural Sciences, Chungbuk National University, Cheongju 28644, Chungbuk, Korea

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<jats:p>Aging is the progressive decline or loss of function at the cellular, tissue, and organismal levels that ultimately leads to death. A number of external and internal factors, including diet, exercise, metabolic dysfunction, genome instability, and epigenetic imbalance, affect the lifespan of an organism. These aging factors regulate transcriptome changes related to the aging process through chromatin remodeling. Many epigenetic regulators, such as histone modification, histone variants, and ATP-dependent chromatin remodeling factors, play roles in chromatin reorganization. The key to understanding the role of gene regulatory networks in aging lies in characterizing the epigenetic regulators responsible for reorganizing and potentiating particular chromatin structures. This review covers epigenetic studies on aging, discusses the impact of epigenetic modifications on gene expression, and provides future directions in this area.</jats:p>

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