Authors: | Li, L.; Lu, Y.; Qin, L. X.; Bar-Joseph, Z.; Werner-Washburne, M.; Breeden, L. L. |
Article Title: | Budding yeast SSD1-V regulates transcript levels of many longevity genes and extends chronological life span in purified quiescent cells |
Abstract: | Ssd1 is an RNA-binding protein that affects literally hundreds of different processes and is polymorphic in both wild and lab yeast strains. We have used transcript microarrays to compare mRNA levels in an isogenic pair of mutant (ssd1-d) and wild-type (SSD1-V) cells across the cell cycle. We find that 15% of transcripts are differentially expressed, but there is no correlation with those mRNAs bound by Ssd1. About 20% of cell cycle regulated transcripts are affected, and most show sharper amplitudes of oscillation in SSD1-V cells. Many transcripts whose gene products influence longevity are also affected, the largest class of which is involved in translation. Ribosomal protein mRNAs are globally down-regulated by SSD1-V. SSD1-V has been shown to increase replicative life spanCurrency sign and we show that SSD1-V also dramatically increases chronological life span (CLS). Using a new assay of CLS in pure populations of quiescent prototrophs, we find that the CLS for SSD1-V cells is twice that of ssd1-d cells. © 2009 by The American Society for Cell Biology. |
Keywords: | unclassified drug; nonhuman; cell survival; cell cycle; cluster analysis; gene expression profiling; rna binding protein; saccharomyces cerevisiae; microarray analysis; oligonucleotide array sequence analysis; longevity; saccharomyces cerevisiae proteins; saccharomycetales; cell cycle regulation; polymorphism, genetic; protein isoforms; yeast cell; gene expression regulation, fungal; protein ssd1; ribosomal proteins |
Journal Title: | Molecular Biology of the Cell |
Volume: | 20 |
Issue: | 17 |
ISSN: | 1059-1524 |
Publisher: | The American Society for Cell Biology |
Date Published: | 2009-09-01 |
Start Page: | 3851 |
End Page: | 3864 |
Language: | English |
DOI: | 10.1091/mbc.E09-04-0347 |
PUBMED: | 19570907 |
PROVIDER: | scopus |
PMCID: | PMC2735484 |
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Notes: | --- - "Export Date: 30 November 2010" - "CODEN: MBCEE" - "Source: Scopus" |