Tuesday, April 30, 2019

Flies used as living test tube to study genes implicated in long lifespan

Xiao FH, Chen XQ, Yu Q, Ye Y, Liu YW, Yan D, Yang LQ, Chen G, Lin R, Yang L, Liao X, Zhang W, Zhang W, Tang NL, Wang XF, Zhou J, Cai WW, He YH, Kong QP. Transcriptome evidence reveals enhanced autophagy-lysosomal function in centenarians. Genome Res. 2018 Nov;28(11):1601-1610. PMID: 30352807; PMCID: PMC6211641.

From the abstract: "... Here, we analyzed the transcriptomes of 76 centenarians, 54 centenarian-children, and 41 spouses of centenarian-children by RNA sequencing and found that ... the autophagy-lysosomal pathway is significantly up-regulated. Overexpression of several genes from this pathway, CTSB, ATP6V0C, ATG4D, and WIPI1, could promote autophagy and delay senescence in cultured IMR-90 cells, while overexpression of the Drosophila homolog of WIPI1, Atg18a, extended the life span in transgenic flies. ... these findings ... suggest that the enhanced waste-cleaning activity via autophagy may serve as a conserved mechanism to prolong the life span from Drosophila to humans."

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