Histone deacetylases, HDAC1 and HSIR2, act as a negative regulator of ageing through p53 in human gingival fibroblast.

Histone deacetylases (HDACs) such as HDAC1 and HSIR2 have been known to be involved in the regulation of life-span extension. However, its underlying mechanism remains unclear in human. Using the primary human gingival fibroblasts (HGFs) derived from donors of different ages, which exhibit clear features of senescence in aged HGFs, we demonstrated that histone deacetylase, HDAC1 and HSIR2, repressed the ageing through the transcriptional inactivation of p53 and p21 promoters. These results suggest that primary HGFs can be a useful human ageing model, and HDAC1, HSIR2, p53 and p21 may play an important role in ageing process of human beings.