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Increased Protein Stability and Decreased Protein Turnover in the Caenorhabditis elegans Ins/IGF-1 daf-2 Mutant.
The journals of gerontology. Series A, Biological sciences and medical sciences - 1 Dec 2016
Depuydt Geert, Shanmugam Nilesh, Rasulova Madina, Dhondt Ineke, Braeckman Bart P
Abstract excerpt
In Caenorhabditis elegans, cellular proteostasis is likely essential for longevity. Autophagy has been shown to be essential for lifespan extension of daf-2 insulin/IGF mutants. Therefore, it can be hypothesized that daf-2 mutants achieve this phenotype by increasing protein turnover. However, such a mechanism would exert a substantial energy cost. By using classical 35S pulse-chase labeling, we observed that...
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