Project description:To understand how reduced insulin/IGF-1 signaling extends Drosophila lifespan through its downstream transcription factor dFOXO. We conducted ChIP analysis with a dFOXO antibody followed by Illumina high-throughput sequencing from chico heterozygous mutants, which are long-lived and normal sized, and from adult flies with ablated insulin producing cells (IPCs), which are also long-lived. dFOXO bound at promoters of 273 genes common among these genotypes, thus potentially enriching for shared factors in control of aging. Two replicates were sequenced from chico heterozygous mutants and IPC ablated flies.
Project description:To understand how reduced insulin/IGF-1 signaling extends Drosophila lifespan through its downstream transcription factor dFOXO. We conducted ChIP analysis with a dFOXO antibody followed by Illumina high-throughput sequencing from chico heterozygous mutants, which are long-lived and normal sized, and from adult flies with ablated insulin producing cells (IPCs), which are also long-lived. dFOXO bound at promoters of 273 genes common among these genotypes, thus potentially enriching for shared factors in control of aging.
Project description:The mechanisms underlying natural variation in lifespan and ageing rate remain largely unknown. We performed microarray experiment to characterise genome-wide expression patterns of a long-lived, natural variant of Drosophila melanogaster resulting from selection for starvation resistance (SR) and compare it with normal-lived control flies (C).
Project description:The mechanisms underlying natural variation in lifespan and ageing rate remain largely unknown. We performed microarray experiment to characterise genome-wide expression patterns of a long-lived, natural variant of Drosophila melanogaster resulting from selection for starvation resistance (SR) and compare it with normal-lived control flies (C). We sampled adult females at two time points representing middle age (90% survival) and old age (10% survival) respectively, in three adult diets (malnutrition, optimal food, and overfeeding).
Project description:Long-lived genetic mutants from different pathways of lifespan extension were used to determine the extent to which there are common downstream mediators of longevity. We have previously obtained RNA-sequencing data from other long-lived mutants including sod-2, clk-1, isp-1, nuo-6 and daf-2. Gene expression will be compared between these nine long-lived mutants.
Project description:We investigated tissue-specific regulation of gene expression in a long lived Drosophila IIS mutant (dilp2-3,5) compared to its control (wDah). As in the majority of Drosophila laboratory strains, the endosymbiont Wolbachia was present; in the absence of Wolbachia, life extension through dilp2-3,5 is abrogated (Grönke et al. 2010). To control for this, we additionally included strains of the same genotypes that lacked Wolbachia (dilp2-3,5T, wDahT). We quantified gene expression concurrently on the level of the proteome and the transcriptome, in four key tissues: brain, gut, fat body, and muscle. Proteome quantification was carried out on five biological replicates per experimental group. Corresponding transcriptome quantification was carried out on three biological replicates per experimental group, and published on GEO (accession number *GSE122190*)
Project description:Our data describes the first atlas of long-lived proteins in somatic and reproductive tissues of Drosophila during adult lifespan, and reveals a preferential ubiquitylation in the aging proteome.
Project description:Analysis of gene expression in two long-lived daf-2 mutant (mutation in the insulin/IGF-1 receptor) and eat-2 mutant (caloric restriction model), comparison of gene expression profiles of two long-lived mutants provide novel insight into longevity Impaired insulin/IGF-1 signaling (IIS) pathway and caloric restriction (CR) are two well-established interventions to prolong lifespan in worm C. elegans. Although many studies using “-omics” approaches have gained informative knowledges on key longevity regulators in either IIS or CR models, few of those investigated the shared regulators between these two longevity interventions and integrated the messages from different –omics studies. In this study, we aimed to identify key pathways and metabolite fingerprints of longevity shared between the two interventions in worms using a multi-omics integration approach. We collected transcriptomics and metabolomics data from two long-lived mutant worm strains, i.e. daf-2 (impaired IIS pathway) and eat-2 (CR model) and compared with N2 strain. We detected many key pathways that were upregulated at the gene expression level in both long-lived mutants, such as defense response and lipid storage, while synthesis of macromolecules and developmental processes were downregulated at the transcript level. From our polar metabolite analysis, we discovered several shared metabolic features between the two long-lived mutants, including glycerol-3P, adenine, xanthine and AMP. In addition, we detected a lowered amino acid pool and two fatty acid species, C18:0 and C17:1, that behaved similarly in both long-lived mutants. After we integrated transcriptomics and metabolomics data based on the annotations in KEGG, our results highlighted a downregulation of pyrimidine metabolism and upregulation of purine metabolism in both long-lived mutants compared to N2 worms. Overall, our findings point towards the existence of shared metabolic pathways that are important for lifespan extension and provide novel insight of potential regulators and metabolic fingerprints for longevity.
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of Indy long lived flies and controls over the course of their entire lifespan. Mutations in the Indy gene extend life span in Drosophila melanogaster. This study investigates the changes in gene expression over time in Indy206 flies heterozygous over Canton-S (Indy206/CS) and compares them to genetically matched heterozygous controls (2216/CS). Samples from both fly strains were collected at age: 5, 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 70 and 80.