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Changes of telomere length cause reciprocal changes in the lifespan of mother cells in Saccharomyces cerevisiae.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 2 Sept 1997
Austriaco N R, Guarente L P
Abstract excerpt
Budding yeast cells divide asymmetrically, giving rise to a mother and its daughter. Mother cells have a limited division potential, called their lifespan, which ends in proliferation-arrest and lysis. In this report we mutate telomerase in Saccharomyces cerevisiae to shorten telomeres and show that, rather than shortening lifespan, this leads to a significant extension in lifespan. This extension requires the...
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