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Liu S, Tan C, Tyers M, Zetterberg A, Kafri R. What programs the size of animal cells? Front Cell Dev Biol 2022; 10:949382. [PMID: 36393871 PMCID: PMC9665425 DOI: 10.3389/fcell.2022.949382] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2022] [Accepted: 09/07/2022] [Indexed: 01/19/2023] Open
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The human body is programmed with definite quantities, magnitudes, and proportions. At the microscopic level, such definite sizes manifest in individual cells - different cell types are characterized by distinct cell sizes whereas cells of the same type are highly uniform in size. How do cells in a population maintain uniformity in cell size, and how are changes in target size programmed? A convergence of recent and historical studies suggest - just as a thermostat maintains room temperature - the size of proliferating animal cells is similarly maintained by homeostatic mechanisms. In this review, we first summarize old and new literature on the existence of cell size checkpoints, then discuss additional advances in the study of size homeostasis that involve feedback regulation of cellular growth rate. We further discuss recent progress on the molecules that underlie cell size checkpoints and mechanisms that specify target size setpoints. Lastly, we discuss a less-well explored teleological question: why does cell size matter and what is the functional importance of cell size control?
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- Shixuan Liu
- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Program in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Department of Chemical and Systems Biology, Stanford University, Stanford, CA, United States
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Program in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer, University of Montréal, Montréal, QC, Canada
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- Department of Oncology-Pathology, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden
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- Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
- Program in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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Kaufman T, Nitzan E, Firestein N, Ginzberg MB, Iyengar S, Patel N, Ben-Hamo R, Porat Z, Hunter J, Hilfinger A, Rotter V, Kafri R, Straussman R. Visual barcodes for clonal-multiplexing of live microscopy-based assays. Nat Commun 2022; 13:2725. [PMID: 35585055 PMCID: PMC9117331 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-022-30008-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/28/2020] [Accepted: 04/06/2022] [Indexed: 12/12/2022] Open
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While multiplexing samples using DNA barcoding revolutionized the pace of biomedical discovery, multiplexing of live imaging-based applications has been limited by the number of fluorescent proteins that can be deconvoluted using common microscopy equipment. To address this limitation, we develop visual barcodes that discriminate the clonal identity of single cells by different fluorescent proteins that are targeted to specific subcellular locations. We demonstrate that deconvolution of these barcodes is highly accurate and robust to many cellular perturbations. We then use visual barcodes to generate ‘Signalome’ cell-lines by mixing 12 clones of different live reporters into a single population, allowing simultaneous monitoring of the activity in 12 branches of signaling, at clonal resolution, over time. Using the ‘Signalome’ we identify two distinct clusters of signaling pathways that balance growth and proliferation, emphasizing the importance of growth homeostasis as a central organizing principle in cancer signaling. The ability to multiplex samples in live imaging applications, both in vitro and in vivo may allow better high-content characterization of complex biological systems. Multiplex analyses of samples allow understanding complex processes in cancer initiation, progression and therapy response. Here, the authors present a fluorescence imaging-based visual barcode for livecell clonal-multiplexing which allows identifying signalling pathways clusters in response to different chemotherapy compounds.
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- Tom Kaufman
- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Programme in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Flow Cytometry Unit, Life Sciences Core Facilities, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Programme in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada.,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Chemical and Physical Sciences, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel
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- Programme in Cell Biology, The Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, ON, Canada. .,Department of Molecular Genetics, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada.
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- Department of Molecular Cell Biology, Weizmann Institute of Science, Rehovot, Israel.
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Rapamycin inhibits cell proliferation, yet preserves (re)-proliferative potential (RPP). RPP is a potential of quiescent cells that is lost in senescent cells. mTOR drives conversion from quiescence to senescence (geroconversion). By suppressing geroconversion, rapamycin preserves RPP. Geroconversion is characterized by proliferation-like levels of phospho-S6K/S6/4E-BP1 in nonproliferating cells arrested by p16 and/or p21. mTOR-driven geroconversion is associated with cellular hyperfunction, which in turn leads to organismal aging manifested by age-related diseases.
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Maslanka R, Kwolek-Mirek M, Zadrag-Tecza R. Consequences of calorie restriction and calorie excess for the physiological parameters of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae cells. FEMS Yeast Res 2018; 17:4628043. [PMID: 29145638 DOI: 10.1093/femsyr/fox087] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2017] [Accepted: 11/13/2017] [Indexed: 12/28/2022] Open
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Glucose plays an important role in cell metabolism and has an impact on cellular physiology. Changes in glucose availability may strongly influence growth rate of the cell size, cell metabolism and the rate of generation of cellular by-products, such as reactive oxygen species. The positive effect of low glucose concentration conditions-calorie restriction is observed in a wide range of species, including the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast, yet little is known about the effect of high glucose concentrations-calorie excess. Such analysis seems to be particularly important due to recently common problem of diabetes and obesity. The effect of glucose on morphological and physiological parameters of the yeast cell was conducted using genetic alteration (disruption of genes involved in glucose signalling) and calorie restriction and calorie excess conditions. The results show a significant relationship among extracellular glucose concentration, cell size and reactive oxygen species generation in yeast cells. Furthermore, the results obtained through the use of mutant strains with disorders in glucose signalling pathways suggest that the intracellular level of glucose is more important than its extracellular concentration. These data also suggest that the calorie excess as a factor, which has a significant impact on cell physiology, requires further comprehensive analyses.
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- Roman Maslanka
- University of Rzeszow, Faculty of Biology and Agriculture, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Zelwerowicza 4, 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
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- University of Rzeszow, Faculty of Biology and Agriculture, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Zelwerowicza 4, 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
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- University of Rzeszow, Faculty of Biology and Agriculture, Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, Zelwerowicza 4, 35-601 Rzeszow, Poland
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Cell Size Influences the Reproductive Potential and Total Lifespan of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Yeast as Revealed by the Analysis of Polyploid Strains. OXIDATIVE MEDICINE AND CELLULAR LONGEVITY 2018; 2018:1898421. [PMID: 29743970 PMCID: PMC5883977 DOI: 10.1155/2018/1898421] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/07/2017] [Revised: 12/04/2017] [Accepted: 01/01/2018] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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The total lifespan of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae may be divided into two phases: the reproductive phase, during which the cell undergoes mitosis cycles to produce successive buds, and the postreproductive phase, which extends from the last division to cell death. These phases may be regulated by a common mechanism or by distinct ones. In this paper, we proposed a more comprehensive approach to reveal the mechanisms that regulate both reproductive potential and total lifespan in cell size context. Our study was based on yeast cells, whose size was determined by increased genome copy number, ranging from haploid to tetraploid. Such experiments enabled us to test the hypertrophy hypothesis, which postulates that excessive size achieved by the cell-the hypertrophy state-is the reason preventing the cell from further proliferation. This hypothesis defines the reproductive potential value as the difference between the maximal size that a cell can reach and the threshold value, which allows a cell to undergo its first cell cycle and the rate of the cell size to increase per generation. Here, we showed that cell size has an important impact on not only the reproductive potential but also the total lifespan of this cell. Moreover, the maximal cell size value, which limits its reproduction capacity, can be regulated by different factors and differs depending on the strain ploidy. The achievement of excessive size by the cell (hypertrophic state) may lead to two distinct phenomena: the cessation of reproduction without "mother" cell death and the cessation of reproduction with cell death by bursting, which has not been shown before.
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Molon M, Woznicka O, Zebrowski J. Cell wall biosynthesis impairment affects the budding lifespan of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast. Biogerontology 2017; 19:67-79. [PMID: 29189912 PMCID: PMC5765204 DOI: 10.1007/s10522-017-9740-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/16/2017] [Accepted: 11/28/2017] [Indexed: 12/24/2022]
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The Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast is one of the most widely used model in studies of cellular and organismal biology, including as aging and proliferation. Although several constraints of aging and budding lifespan have been identified, these processes have not yet been fully understood. Previous studies of aging in yeast have focused mostly on the molecular basics of the underlying mechanisms, while physical aspects, particularly those related to the cell wall, were rather neglected. In this paper, we examine for the first time, to our knowledge, the impact of cell wall biosynthesis disturbances on the lifespan in the budding yeast. We have used a set of cell wall mutants, including knr4Δ, cts1Δ, chs3Δ, fks1Δ and mnn9Δ, which affect biosynthesis of all major cell wall compounds. Our results indicated that impairment of chitin biosynthesis and cell wall protein mannosylation reduced the budding lifespan, while disruption in the 1,3-β-glucan synthase activity had no adverse effect on that parameter. The impact varied in the severity and the most notable effect was observed for the mnn9Δ mutant. What was interesting, in the case of the dysfunction of the Knr4 protein playing the role of the transcriptional regulator of cell wall chitin and glucan synthesis, the lifespan increased significantly. We also report the phenotypic characteristics of cell wall-associated mutants as revealed by imaging of the cell wall using transmission electron microscopy, scanning electron microscopy and atomic force microscopy. In addition, our findings support the conviction that achievement of the state of hypertrophy may not be the only factor that determines the budding lifespan.
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- Mateusz Molon
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Rzeszow, Zelwerowicza 4, 35-601, Rzeszow, Poland.
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- Department of Cell Biology and Imaging, Institute of Zoology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Plant Physiology, Institute of Biotechnology, University of Rzeszow, Rzeszow, Poland
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Bilinski T, Bylak A, Zadrag-Tecza R. The budding yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae as a model organism: possible implications for gerontological studies. Biogerontology 2017; 18:631-640. [PMID: 28573416 PMCID: PMC5514200 DOI: 10.1007/s10522-017-9712-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/31/2017] [Accepted: 05/19/2017] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Experimental gerontology is based on the fundamental assumption that the aging process has a universal character and that the mechanisms of aging are well-conserved among living things. The consequence of this assumption is the use of various organisms, including unicellular yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, as models in gerontology, and direct extrapolation of the conclusions drawn from the studies carried on these organisms to human beings. However, numerous arguments suggest that aging is not universal and its mechanisms are not conserved in a wide range of species. Instead, senescence can be treated as a side effect of the evolution of specific features for systematic group, unrelated to the passage of time. Hence, depending on the properties of the group, the senescence and proximal causes of death could have a diverse nature. We postulate that the selection of a model organism to explain the mechanism of human aging and human longevity should be preceded by the analysis of its potential to extrapolate the results to a wide group of organisms. Considering that gerontology is a human-oriented discipline and that aging involves complex, systemic changes affecting the entire organism, the object of experimental studies should be animals which are closest relatives of human beings in evolutionary terms, rather than lower organisms, which do not have sufficient complexity in terms of tissues and organ structures.
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- Tomasz Bilinski
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Rzeszow, Zelwerowicza 4, 35-601, Rzeszow, Poland
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- Department of Ecology and Environmental Biology, University of Rzeszow, Zelwerowicza 4, 35-601, Rzeszow, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Rzeszow, Zelwerowicza 4, 35-601, Rzeszow, Poland.
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Zadrag-Tecza R, Skoneczna A. Reproductive potential and instability of the rDNA region of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast: Common or separate mechanisms of regulation? Exp Gerontol 2016; 84:29-39. [DOI: 10.1016/j.exger.2016.08.009] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/16/2016] [Accepted: 08/17/2016] [Indexed: 12/15/2022]
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Molon M, Szajwaj M, Tchorzewski M, Skoczowski A, Niewiadomska E, Zadrag-Tecza R. The rate of metabolism as a factor determining longevity of the Saccharomyces cerevisiae yeast. AGE (DORDRECHT, NETHERLANDS) 2016; 38:11. [PMID: 26783001 PMCID: PMC5005888 DOI: 10.1007/s11357-015-9868-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/08/2015] [Accepted: 12/22/2015] [Indexed: 05/13/2023]
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Despite many controversies, the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae continues to be used as a model organism for the study of aging. Numerous theories and hypotheses have been created for several decades, yet basic mechanisms of aging have remained unclear. Therefore, the principal aim of this work is to propose a possible mechanism leading to increased longevity in yeast. In this paper, we suggest for the first time that there is a link between decreased metabolic activity, fertility and longevity expressed as time of life in yeast. Determination of reproductive potential and total lifespan with the use of fob1Δ and sfp1Δ mutants allows us to compare the "longevity" presented as the number of produced daughters with the longevity expressed as the time of life. The results of analyses presented in this paper suggest the need for a change in the definition of longevity of yeast by taking into consideration the time parameter. The mutants that have been described as "long-lived" in the literature, such as the fob1Δ mutant, have an increased reproductive potential but live no longer than their standard counterparts. On the other hand, the sfp1Δ mutant and the wild-type strain produce a similar number of daughter cells, but the former lives much longer. Our results demonstrate a correlation between the decreased efficiency of the translational apparatus and the longevity of the sfp1Δ mutant. We suggest that a possible factor regulating the lifespan is the rate of cell metabolism. To measure the basic metabolism of the yeast cells, we used the isothermal microcalorimetry method. In the case of sfp1Δ, the flow of energy, ATP concentration, polysome profile and translational fitness are significantly lower in comparison with the wild-type strain and the fob1Δ mutant.
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- Mateusz Molon
- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Rzeszow, Zelwerowicza 4, Rzeszow, 35-601, Poland.
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- Department of Molecular Biology, Maria Curie-Sklodowska University, Lublin, Poland
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- The Franciszek Górski Institute of Plant Physiology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Krakow, Poland
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- Department of Biochemistry and Cell Biology, University of Rzeszow, Zelwerowicza 4, Rzeszow, 35-601, Poland
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Arlia-Ciommo A, Piano A, Leonov A, Svistkova V, Titorenko VI. Quasi-programmed aging of budding yeast: a trade-off between programmed processes of cell proliferation, differentiation, stress response, survival and death defines yeast lifespan. Cell Cycle 2015; 13:3336-49. [PMID: 25485579 PMCID: PMC4614525 DOI: 10.4161/15384101.2014.965063] [Citation(s) in RCA: 32] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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Recent findings suggest that evolutionarily distant organisms share the key features of the aging process and exhibit similar mechanisms of its modulation by certain genetic, dietary and pharmacological interventions. The scope of this review is to analyze mechanisms that in the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae underlie: (1) the replicative and chronological modes of aging; (2) the convergence of these 2 modes of aging into a single aging process; (3) a programmed differentiation of aging cell communities in liquid media and on solid surfaces; and (4) longevity-defining responses of cells to some chemical compounds released to an ecosystem by other organisms populating it. Based on such analysis, we conclude that all these mechanisms are programs for upholding the long-term survival of the entire yeast population inhabiting an ecological niche; however, none of these mechanisms is a ʺprogram of agingʺ - i.e., a program for progressing through consecutive steps of the aging process.
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Key Words
- D, diauxic growth phase
- ERCs, extrachromosomal rDNA circles
- IPOD, insoluble protein deposit
- JUNQ, juxtanuclear quality control compartment
- L, logarithmic growth phase
- MBS, the mitochondrial back-signaling pathway
- MTC, the mitochondrial translation control signaling pathway
- NPCs, nuclear pore complexes
- NQ, non-quiescent cells
- PD, post-diauxic growth phase
- Q, quiescent cells
- ROS, reactive oxygen species
- RTG, the mitochondrial retrograde signaling pathway
- Ras/cAMP/PKA, the Ras family GTPase/cAMP/protein kinase A signaling pathway
- ST, stationary growth phase
- TOR/Sch9, the target of rapamycin/serine-threonine protein kinase Sch9 signaling pathway
- UPRER, the unfolded protein response pathway in the endoplasmic reticulum
- UPRmt, the unfolded protein response pathway in mitochondria
- cell growth and proliferation
- cell survival
- cellular aging
- ecosystems
- evolution
- longevity
- programmed cell death
- yeast
- yeast colony
- yeast replicative and chronological aging
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Smith J, Wright J, Schneider BL. A budding yeast's perspective on aging: the shape I'm in. Exp Biol Med (Maywood) 2015; 240:701-10. [PMID: 25819684 DOI: 10.1177/1535370215577584] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022] Open
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Aging is exemplified by progressive, deleterious changes that increase the probability of death. However, while the effects of age are easy to recognize, identification of the processes involved has proved to be much more difficult. Somewhat surprisingly, research using the budding yeast has had a profound impact on our current understanding of the mechanisms involved in aging. Herein, we examine the biological significance and implications surrounding the observation that genetic pathways involved in the modulation of aging and the determination of lifespan in yeast are highly complicated and conserved.
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- Jessica Smith
- Department of Medical Education and Department of Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA
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- Department of Medical Education and Department of Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA
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- Department of Medical Education and Department of Cell Biology & Biochemistry, Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, Lubbock, TX 79430, USA
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