Heterochromatin formation promotes longevity and represses ribosomal RNA synthesis

PLoS Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Larson, Kimberly ^a   Yan, Shian Jang ^a,b   Tsurumi, Amy ^a   Liu, Jacqueline ^a   Zhou, Jun ^c   Gaur, Kriti ^a   Guo, Dongdong ^a   Eickbush, Thomas H ^c   Li, Willis X ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROCHESTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RIBOSOME DNA; RIBOSOME RNA; CIRCULAR DNA; DROSOPHILA PROTEIN; HETEROCHROMATIN SPECIFIC NONHISTONE CHROMOSOMAL PROTEIN HP 1; HETEROCHROMATIN-SPECIFIC NONHISTONE CHROMOSOMAL PROTEIN HP-1; HOPSCOTCH PROTEIN, DROSOPHILA; JANUS KINASE; NONHISTONE PROTEIN; STAT PROTEIN; TRANSCRIPTION FACTOR;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DNA RECOMBINATION; DROSOPHILA; EPIGENETICS; GENE LOCUS; GENE REPRESSION; GENE SILENCING; GENETIC CONSERVATION; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; INSECT GENETICS; LIFESPAN; LONGEVITY; NONHUMAN; RNA SYNTHESIS; RNA TRANSCRIPTION; AGING; ANIMAL; BIOSYNTHESIS; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; GENETIC EPIGENESIS; GENETIC TRANSCRIPTION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; MUSCLE; NUCLEOLUS; PHYSIOLOGY;

ANIMALIA;

AGING; ANIMALS; CELL NUCLEOLUS; CHROMOSOMAL PROTEINS, NON-HISTONE; DNA, CIRCULAR; DROSOPHILA MELANOGASTER; DROSOPHILA PROTEINS; EPIGENESIS, GENETIC; GENOMIC INSTABILITY; HETEROCHROMATIN; JANUS KINASES; LONGEVITY; MUSCLES; RNA, RIBOSOMAL; STAT TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION FACTORS; TRANSCRIPTION, GENETIC;

EID: 84857477619     PISSN: 15537390     EISSN: 15537404     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pgen.1002473     Document Type: Article

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