Abstract
Dietary restriction extends life span in diverse species including Caenorhabditis elegans. However, the downstream cellular targets regulated by dietary restriction are largely unknown. Autophagy, an evolutionary conserved lysosomal degradation pathway, is induced under starvation conditions and regulates life span in insulin signaling C. elegans mutants. We now report that two essential autophagy genes (bec-1 and Ce-atg7) are required for the longevity phenotype of the C. elegans dietary restriction mutant (eat-2(ad1113) animals. Thus, we propose that autophagy mediates the effect, not only of insulin signaling, but also of dietary restriction on the regulation of C. elegans life span. Since autophagy and longevity control are highly conserved from C. elegans to mammals, a similar role for autophagy in dietary restriction-mediated life span extension may also exist in mammals.
Keywords
BiologyCaenorhabditis elegansAutophagyLongevityPhenotypeCell biologyMutantGeneticsStarvationTOR signalingModel organismCaenorhabditisLife spanGeneSignal transductionEvolutionary biologyEndocrinologyApoptosis
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AnimalsAutophagyCaenorhabditis elegansCaenorhabditis elegans ProteinsCaloric RestrictionFood DeprivationGenesHelminthLongevityPlasmidsRNA InterferenceVesicular Transport Proteins
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- 3
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- 6
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- 597-599
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- 334
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Kailiang Jia,
Beth Levine
(2007).
Autophagy is Required for Dietary Restriction-Mediated Life Span Extension in<i>C. elegans</i>.
Autophagy
, 3
(6)
, 597-599.
https://doi.org/10.4161/auto.4989
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- DOI
- 10.4161/auto.4989
- PMID
- 17912023