Aging-associated lncRNAs carry evolutionary constraints and participate in NFκB signaling [CRISPR]

Aging changes global transcriptome including protein-coding and noncoding RNAs. Whether aging dependent lncRNAs undergo conserved regulation and function still remain unknown. We report aging dependent lncRNAs carry signature of evolutionary constraint and significantly enriched for targets of transcription factors and RNA binding proteins. Aging dependent lncRNAs is conservatively under NFκB pathway regulation. CRISPR screening for NFκB pathway found that aging dependent lncRNAs also extensively regulate NFκB pathway. The human LINC02085 is an evolutionary conserved lncRNA that can be traced to 29Mya before human. LINC02085 is induced during aging, inflammation and senescence through NFκB pathway. Reciprocally, LINC02085 directly regulates NFKBIZ in cis within same topological associated domain (TAD). LINC02085 binds to enhancer of NFKBIZ and recruits RELA to the NFKBIZ promoters and participates phase separation. These findings reveal that aging dependent lncRNAs are previously under-appreciated contributors to the evolutionary conservation and regulation of NFκB pathway. The CRISPR screening of aging dependent lncRNA in NFκB pathway