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JOURNAL OF CELL BIOLOGY
Volume 220, Issue 5, Pages -Publisher
ROCKEFELLER UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1083/jcb.202006174
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- Korean Government (Ministry of Science and Information and Communications Technology) through the National Research Foundation of Korea [NRF-2019R1A3B2067745]
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Genetic inhibition of the DAF-2/insulin/IGF-1 receptor in Caenorhabditis elegans can enhance immunocompetence in old age by up-regulating anti-aging transcription factors and preventing immune aging. This study may lead to the development of strategies against immune aging in humans, as many functions are conserved across phyla.
A hallmark of aging is immunosenescence, a decline in immune functions, which appeared to be inevitable in living organisms, including Caenorhabditis elegans. Here, we show that genetic inhibition of the DAF-2/insulin/IGF-1 receptor drastically enhances immunocompetence in old age in C. elegans. We demonstrate that longevity-promoting DAF-16/FOXO and heat-shock transcription factor 1 (HSF-1) increase immunocompetence in old daf-2(-) animals. In contrast, p38 mitogen-activated protein kinase 1 (PMK-1), a key determinant of immunity, is only partially required for this rejuvenated immunity. The up-regulation of DAF-16/FOXO and HSF-1 decreases the expression of the zip-10/bZIP transcription factor, which in turn down-regulates INS7, an agonistic insulin-like peptide, resulting in further reduction of insulin/IGF-1 signaling (IIS). Thus, reduced IIS prevents immune aging via the up-regulation of anti-aging transcription factors that modulate an endocrine insulin-like peptide through a feedforward mechanism. Because many functions of 115 are conserved across phyla, our study may lead to the development of strategies against immune aging in humans.
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