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Transcriptional profiling of MnSOD-mediated lifespan extension in Drosophila reveals a species-general network of aging and metabolic genes

Christina Curtis1, Gary N Landis1, Donna Folk2, Nancy B Wehr3, Nicholas Hoe1, Morris Waskar1, Diana Abdueva4,1, Dmitriy Skvortsov1, Daniel Ford1, Allan Luu1, Ananth Badrinath1, Rodney L Levine3, Timothy J Bradley2, Simon Tavaré1,5 and John Tower1*

Author Affiliations

1 Molecular and Computational Biology Program, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-1340, USA

2 Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California, Irvine, CA 92717, USA

3 Laboratory of Biochemistry, National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, Bethesda, MD 20817-6735, USA

4 Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, Childrens Hospital Los Angeles, Keck School of Medicine, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-9034, USA

5 Department of Oncology, University of Cambridge, Cambridge CB2 2XZ, UK

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Genome Biology 2007, 8:R262 doi:10.1186/gb-2007-8-12-r262

Published: 9 December 2007

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Additional data file 1:

Statistical analysis of the effect of DOX induced MnSOD over-expression on lifespan, stress resistance, desiccation, metabolism, and aconitase levels and LacZ expression assay.

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Additional results for the effect of DOX-induced MnSOD over-expression on lifespan, stress resistance, desiccation, metabolism, and aconitase levels and LacZ expression assay.

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DOX regulated immune response genes.

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Annotated differentially expressed genes resulting from MnSOD over-expression.

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Statistical significance of overlapping gene sets.

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Categorization of the gene expression differences between MnSOD over-expressing flies and controls sampled at the same 'physiological' age.

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Additional longevity promoting genes conserved between C. elegans daf-2 mutants and MnSOD over-expressing Drosophila.

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MnSOD-regulated xenobiotic detoxification genes.

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Additional data file 9:

DNA regulatory elements in the set of conserved longevity promoting genes.

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Supporting results and additional explanatory text.

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Additional data file 11:

Proposed role for HR96 in the endocrine regulation of lifespan.

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