Neuronal expression of Mgat1 rescues the shortened life span of Drosophila Mgat11 null mutants and increases life span

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 107, Issue 21, 2010, Pages 9677-9682

  Sarkar, Mohan ^a   Iliadi, Konstantin G ^a   Leventis, Peter A ^a   Schachter, Harry ^a,b   Boulianne, Gabrielle L ^a,b  

^a HOSPITAL FOR SICK CHILDREN   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

GnT1; Locomotion; Longevity; N acetylglucosaminyltransferase; N glycosylation

Indexed keywords

N ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASE;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; CALORIC INTAKE; CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIET RESTRICTION; DROSOPHILA; ENZYME ACTIVITY; GENE; GENE EXPRESSION; LIFESPAN; LOCOMOTION; LONGEVITY; MGAT1 GENE; MUTANT; NONHUMAN; OXIDATIVE STRESS; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSGENE; WILD TYPE;

ANIMAL FEED; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, GENETICALLY MODIFIED; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; LOCOMOTION; LONGEVITY; MUTATION; N-ACETYLGLUCOSAMINYLTRANSFERASES; NEURONS; OXIDATIVE STRESS;

EID: 77953099260     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1004431107     Document Type: Article

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