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PLOS GENETICS
卷 1, 期 3, 页码 295-301出版社
PUBLIC LIBRARY SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.0010030
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- NIA NIH HHS [R01 AG024365] Funding Source: Medline
- NIGMS NIH HHS [R01 GM069525] Funding Source: Medline
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF GENERAL MEDICAL SCIENCES [R01GM069525] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [R01AG024365] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans, after completing its developmental stages and a brief reproductive period, spends the remainder of its adult life as an organism consisting exclusively of post-mitotic cells. Here we show that telomere length varies considerably in clonal populations of wild-type worms, and that these length differences are conserved over at least ten generations, suggesting a length regulation mechanism in cis. This observation is strengthened by the finding that the bulk telomere length in different worm strains varies considerably. Despite the close correlation of telomere length and clonal cellular senescence in mammalian cells, nematodes with long telomeres were neither long lived, nor did worm populations with comparably short telomeres exhibit a shorter life span. Conversely, long-lived daf-2 and short-lived daf-16 mutant animals can have either long or short telomeres. Telomere length of post-mitotic cells did not change during the aging process, and the response of animals to stress was found independent of telomere length. Collectively, our data indicate that telomere length and life span can be uncoupled in a post-mitotic setting, suggesting separate pathways for replication-dependent and -independent aging.
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