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SUBMITTER: Ni Z
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3306474 | biostudies-literature | 2012 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ni Zhuoyu Z Ebata Atsushi A Alipanahiramandi Elham E Lee Siu Sylvia SS
Aging cell 20120119 2
Changes in epigenetic status and chromatin structure have been shown to associate with aging in many organisms. Here, we report an RNAi screen of putative histone methyltransferases and demethylases in wild-type Caenorhabditis elegans using reproduction inhibitor. We identified six genes that when inactivated by RNAi, consistently extend lifespan. Five of these genes do not require germline proliferation to affect lifespan. We further characterized two of these genes, the highly homologous SET d ...[more]