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Sci. Aging Knowl. Environ., 3 October 2001 OTHER RESOURCESA Mutant Drosophila Insulin Receptor Homolog That Extends Life-Span and Impairs Neuroendocrine FunctionM. Tatar, A. Kopelman, D. Epstein, M.-P. Tu, C.-M. Yin, and R. S. Garofalo http://sageke.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/sageke;2001/1/or6Abstract: Science 292, 107-110 (2001). The Drosophila melanogaster gene insulin-like receptor (InR) is homologous to mammalian insulin receptors as well as to Caenorhabditis elegans daf-2, a signal transducer regulating worm dauer formation and adult longevity. We describe a heteroallelic, hypomorphic genotype of mutant InR, which yields dwarf females with up to an 85% extension of adult longevity and dwarf males with reduced late age-specific mortality. Treatment of the long-lived InR dwarfs with a juvenile hormone analog restores life expectancy toward that of wild-type controls. We conclude that juvenile hormone deficiency, which results from InR signal pathway mutation, is sufficient to extend life-span, and that in flies, insulin-like ligands nonautonomously mediate aging through retardation of growth or activation of specific endocrine tissue.
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