Publication Date:
2000-10-06
Description:
An insulinlike signaling pathway controls Caenorhabditis elegans aging, metabolism, and development. Mutations in the daf-2 insulin receptor-like gene or the downstream age-1 phosphoinositide 3-kinase gene extend adult life-span by two- to threefold. To identify tissues where this pathway regulates aging and metabolism, we restored daf-2 pathway signaling to only neurons, muscle, or intestine. Insulinlike signaling in neurons alone was sufficient to specify wild-type life-span, but muscle or intestinal signaling was not. However, restoring daf-2 pathway signaling to muscle rescued metabolic defects, thus decoupling regulation of life-span and metabolism. These findings point to the nervous system as a central regulator of animal longevity.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Wolkow, C A -- Kimura, K D -- Lee, M S -- Ruvkun, G -- AG14161/AG/NIA NIH HHS/ -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2000 Oct 6;290(5489):147-50.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Molecular Biology, Massachusetts General Hospital and Department of Genetics, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02114, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11021802" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Aging/genetics/*physiology
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Animals
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Caenorhabditis elegans/genetics/*physiology
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*Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins
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Catalase/genetics/metabolism
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Gene Expression Regulation
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Genes, Helminth
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Helminth Proteins/genetics/metabolism
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Intestines/cytology/physiology
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Larva/physiology
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Longevity
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Muscles/cytology/physiology
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Nervous System Physiological Phenomena
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Neurons/*physiology
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Phenotype
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*Phosphatidylinositol 3-Kinases
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Promoter Regions, Genetic
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Receptor, Insulin/genetics/*metabolism
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Recombinant Fusion Proteins/metabolism
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*Signal Transduction
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Superoxide Dismutase/genetics/metabolism
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
