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Caenorhabditis elegans PI3K mutants reveal novel genes underlying exceptional stress resistance and lifespan.
Aging cell - 1 Dec 2009
Ayyadevara Srinivas, Tazearslan Cagdaş, Bharill Puneet, Alla Ramani, Siegel Eric, Shmookler Reis Robert J
Abstract excerpt
Two age-1 nonsense mutants, truncating the class-I phosphatidylinositol 3-kinase catalytic subunit (PI3K(CS)) before its kinase domain, confer extraordinary longevity and stress-resistance to Caenorhabditis elegans. These traits, unique to second-generation homozygotes, are blunted at the first generation and are largely reversed by additional mutations to DAF-16/FOXO, a transcription factor downstream of AGE-1...
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