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GENES AND NUTRITION
Volume 4, Issue 1, Pages 59-67Publisher
BMC
DOI: 10.1007/s12263-009-0113-x
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Caenorhabditis elegans; Hormesis; Reactive oxygen species; Aging; Heat shock protein; Glutathione
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- BASF, Ludwigshafen, Germany
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Reactive oxygen species (ROS) are thought to be a driving force in the aging process. In transgenic Caenorhabditis elegans expressing green fluorescent protein (GFP) under control of the hsp-16.2 promoter (CL2070) 100 mu M of the ROS-generator juglone induced GFP-expression. This was associated with translocation of DAF-16 to the nucleus as visualized in a transgenic strain expressing a DAF-16:: GFP fusion protein (TJ356) and with increased cellular levels of reduced glutathione. RNA-interference for DAF-16 in CL2070 blocked the juglone-induced HSP-16.2 expression and the increase in glutathione levels. Higher concentrations of juglone did not further increase the adaptive responses but caused premature death, indicating hormetic adaptations unless the stressor exceeds the intrinsic protective capacity. The addition of the ROS-scavenger ascorbic acid finally blocked lifespan reductions and all of the adaptations to juglone stressing that ROS are indeed the molecular species that require protective response.
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