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Liver X receptor alpha associates with human life span.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 Apr 2007
Mooijaart Simon P, Kuningas Maris, Westendorp Rudi G J, Houwing-Duistermaat Jeanine J, Slagboom P Eline, Rensen Patrick C N, van Heemst Diana
Abstract excerpt
In the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, nuclear hormone receptor DAF-12 regulates the decision to go into a resistant dauer diapause, in which the worm exhibits a decreased rate of aging. Using sequence similarity searches, we previously identified the liver X receptor alpha (LXRalpha) as one of the human nuclear hormone receptors the protein sequence of which is most similar to C. elegans DAF-12. Here, we...
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