fem-1;fer-15;gcy-18

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Genetic mutants with fem-1, fer-15, gcy-18 alterations

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Temperature °C
25
Diet
OP50
Lifespan (days)
16.4
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Triple mutant fem-1(hc-17);fer-15(b26);gcy-18(RNAi) has a lifespan of 16.4 days, while double mutant fem-1(hc-17);fer-15(b26) has a lifespan of 17.1 days.
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Murphy CT et al., 2003, Genes that act downstream of DAF-16 to influence the lifespan of Caenorhabditis elegans. Nature. 424(6946):277-83 12845331 Click here to select all mutants from this PubMed ID in the graph
Abstract
Ageing is a fundamental, unsolved mystery in biology. DAF-16, a FOXO-family transcription factor, influences the rate of ageing of Caenorhabditis elegans in response to insulin/insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-I) signalling. Using DNA microarray analysis, we have found that DAF-16 affects expression of a set of genes during early adulthood, the time at which this pathway is known to control ageing. Here we find that many of these genes influence the ageing process. The insulin/IGF-I pathway functions cell non-autonomously to regulate lifespan, and our findings suggest that it signals other cells, at least in part, by feedback regulation of an insulin/IGF-I homologue. Furthermore, our findings suggest that the insulin/IGF-I pathway ultimately exerts its effect on lifespan by upregulating a wide variety of genes, including cellular stress-response, antimicrobial and metabolic genes, and by downregulating specific life-shortening genes.

Search genes: fem-1 fer-15 gcy-18 fem-1;fer-15;gcy-18

Entrez ID
Symbol
GenAge
Wormbase ID

177335
fem-1
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WBGene00001411

Sex-determining protein fem-1

Locus: CELE_F35D6.1

Wormbase description: The fem-1 gene encodes an ankyrin repeat-containing protein orthologous to human FEM1A and is required for masculinization of germline and somatic tissues; FEM-1 is widely expressed and functions as a second messenger in the sex determination pathway, connecting the membrane protein TRA-2A to the transcription factor TRA-1A which it negatively regulates; FEM-1 may also play a role in apoptosis, as it is a substrate for the CED-3 protease and can induce apoptosis when overexpressed in mammalian cells.

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GenAge

fer-15
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No gene information for fer-15

Entrez ID
Symbol
GenAge
Wormbase ID

178237
gcy-18
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WBGene00001543

Receptor-type guanylate cyclase gcy-18

Locus: CELE_ZK896.8

Wormbase description: gcy-18 encodes a receptor-type guanylyl cyclase that, along with gcy-8 and gcy-23, constitutes a subfamily of guanylyl cyclase genes in C. elegans; gcy-18 functions redundantly with gcy-8 and gcy-23, and upstream of tax-4, to regulate thermotaxis via the AFD thermosensory neurons, although of the three guanylyl cyclases required, genetic analyses suggest that GCY-18 is the primary guanylyl cyclase required; in addition, microarray experiments indicate that gcy-18 expression is induced in daf-16(RNAi); daf-2(RNAi) double mutants and repressed in daf-2(RNAi) mutants, suggesting that GCY-18 activity may contribute to a shortened lifespan; consistent with this, loss of gcy-18 activity via RNAi does result in lifespan extension; GCY-18 is expressed exclusively in the AFD thermosensory neurons, where it localizes to sensory endings.

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