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- Title
A mutant Drosophila insulin receptor homolog that extends life-span and impairs neuroendocrine function.
- Authors
Tatar, M; Kopelman, A; Epstein, D; Tu, M P; Yin, C M; Garofalo, R S
- Abstract
The Drosophila melanogaster gene insulin-like receptor (InR) is homologous to mammalian insulin receptors as well as to Caenorhabditis elegans daf-2, a signal transducer regulating worm dauer formation and adult longevity. We describe a heteroallelic, hypomorphic genotype of mutant InR, which yields dwarf females with up to an 85% extension of adult longevity and dwarf males with reduced late age-specific mortality. Treatment of the long-lived InR dwarfs with a juvenile hormone analog restores life expectancy toward that of wild-type controls. We conclude that juvenile hormone deficiency, which results from InR signal pathway mutation, is sufficient to extend life-span, and that in flies, insulin-like ligands nonautonomously mediate aging through retardation of growth or activation of specific endocrine tissue.
- Publication
Science (New York, N.Y.), 2001, Vol 292, Issue 5514, p107
- ISSN
0036-8075
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1126/science.1057987