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Accelerated aging and nucleolar fragmentation in yeast sgs1 mutants.
Science (New York, N.Y.) - 29 Aug 1997
Sinclair D A, Mills K, Guarente L
Abstract excerpt
The SGS1 gene of yeast encodes a DNA helicase with homology to the human WRN gene. Mutations in WRN result in Werner's syndrome, a disease with symptoms resembling premature aging. Mutation of SGS1 is shown to cause premature aging in yeast mother cells on the basis of a shortened life-span and the aging-induced phenotypes of sterility and redistribution of the Sir3 silencing protein from telomeres to the...
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