Dietary Protein, Metabolism, and Aging

Annual Review of Biochemistry

Volumn 85, Issue , 2016, Pages 5-34

  Soultoukis, George A ^a   Partridge, Linda ^a,b  

^a MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR BIOLOGY OF AGEING   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Aging; Anabolism; Dietary restriction; Macronutrients; Nutrient sensing signaling; Protein and amino acid requirement

Indexed keywords

AMINO ACID; BIOLOGICAL MARKER; MAMMALIAN TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN; PROTEIN; EIF2AK4 PROTEIN, HUMAN; INITIATION FACTOR 2; MECHANISTIC TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN COMPLEX 1; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN SERINE THREONINE KINASE; SOMATOMEDIN C; TARGET OF RAPAMYCIN KINASE;

AGING; ARTICLE; BIOENERGY; BODY GROWTH; DEGENERATIVE DISEASE; FOOD AVERSION; FOOD INTAKE; HEALTH; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMAN; INGESTION; INSULIN RESISTANCE; LIFE EXTENSION; LONGEVITY; MICROFLORA; MODULATION; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL VALUE; OBESITY; PHYSIOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTECTION; PROTEIN CONTENT; PROTEIN INTAKE; PROTEIN METABOLISM; PROTEIN RESTRICTION; REPRODUCTION; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; ADMINISTRATION AND DOSAGE; ANIMAL; CALORIC RESTRICTION; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION; GENETICS; METABOLISM; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; PATHOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PROTEOSTASIS DEFICIENCIES;

AGING; AMINO ACIDS; ANIMALS; CALORIC RESTRICTION; DIET, PROTEIN-RESTRICTED; DIETARY PROTEINS; EUKARYOTIC INITIATION FACTOR-2; GENE EXPRESSION REGULATION, DEVELOPMENTAL; HOMEOSTASIS; HUMANS; INSULIN-LIKE GROWTH FACTOR I; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEXES; NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASES; OBESITY; PROTEIN-SERINE-THREONINE KINASES; PROTEOSTASIS DEFICIENCIES; SIGNAL TRANSDUCTION; TOR SERINE-THREONINE KINASES;

EID: 84974691666     PISSN: 00664154     EISSN: 15454509     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1146/annurev-biochem-060815-014422     Document Type: Article

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