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Although aging is associated with inflammatory activation and tissue remodeling in skin, it remains unclear how aging-associated transcriptional programs are positioned within psoriatic tissue architecture and whether stromal cells with senescence-associated features retain inflammatory responsiveness.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>We integrated a normal aging human skin single-cell RNA-seq dataset with discovery and external psoriasis spatial transcriptomic datasets. Three compartment-informed aging signatures\u2014global old-up, stromal-aging, and immune-aging\u2014were defined and projected onto psoriatic tissue. Sensitivity analyses included an overlap-removed immune-aging score and immune\/APC-adjusted analyses. Human foreskin fibroblasts were used as a reductionist system to test whether doxorubicin-induced senescence-like stress was compatible with IFN\u03b3-responsive antigen-presentation-associated and chemokine programs.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Aging-associated signals were not uniformly distributed across psoriatic lesions. Global old-up and immune-aging programs were higher in APC\/immune-enriched and immune-inflammatory domains, whereas stromal-aging localized to fibro-inflammatory and extracellular matrix-remodeling domains. Score-defined immune-aging-high regions showed IFN-linked chemokine, inflammatory, and immune-activation features, while stromal-aging-high regions were dominated by collagen organization and extracellular matrix remodeling. At the tissue-section level, immune-aging activity was increased in lesional psoriasis and was associated\u00a0with IFN gamma response and antigen-presentation activity, with similar patterns observed using the overlap-removed immune-aging score. External spatial transcriptomic analysis reproduced selected antigen-presentation- and interferon-linked features. In HFF-1 fibroblasts, doxorubicin induced a senescence-like DNA damage-associated state, whereas IFN\u03b3 induced HLA-ABC, B2M, CD74, CXCL9, and surface HLA-DR. These IFN\u03b3-responsive programs remained detectable after doxorubicin-induced stress.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Discussion<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Aging-associated transcriptional programs are spatially organized within psoriatic skin through distinct immune- and stromal-associated tissue contexts. The findings support the coexistence of senescence-like stromal stress and IFN\u03b3-responsive immune activation but do not establish a causal relationship between these processes.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.3389\/fimmu.2026.1903929","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,8,11]],"date-time":"2026-08-11T04:20:04Z","timestamp":1786422004000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.3389\/crossmark-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Aging-associated immune and stromal programs mark interferon- and remodeling-linked spatial contexts in psoriatic skin"],"prefix":"10.3389","volume":"17","author":[{"given":"Xuejingzi","family":"Wu","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, Zhongnan Hospital of Wuhan University","place":["Wuhan, China"]}],"role":[{"vocabulary":"crossref","role":"author"}]},{"given":"Mengwen","family":"He","sequence":"additional","affiliation":[{"name":"Department of Dermatology, 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