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CURRENT BIOLOGY
Volume 15, Issue 22, Pages 2063-2068Publisher
CELL PRESS
DOI: 10.1016/j.cub.2005.10.051
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- NIA NIH HHS [R37 AG016667, AG16667, RF1 AG024353, AG24353] Funding Source: Medline
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Hyperactivation of p53 leads to a reduction in tumor formation and an unexpected shortening of life span in two different model systems [1, 2]. The decreased life span occurs with signs of accelerated aging, such as osteoporosis, reduction in body weight, atrophy of organs, decreased stress resistance, and depletion of hematopoietic stem cells. These observations suggest a role for p53 in the determination of life span and the speculation that decreasing p53 activity may result in positive effects on some aging phenotypes [3, 4]. In this report, we show that expression of dominant-negative versions of Drosophila melanogaster p53 in adult neurons extends life span and increases genotoxic stress resistance in the fly. Consistent with this, a naturally occurring allele with decreased p53 activity has been associated with extended survival in humans [5]. Expression of the dominant-negative Drosophila melanogaster p53 constructs does not further increase the extended life span of flies that are calorie restricted, suggesting that a decrease in p53 activity may mediate a component of the calorie-restriction life span-extending pathway in flies.
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