Project description:We performed label-free proteomics in C. elegans to define and quantify changes in the ubiquitinated (Ub)-proteome during the aging process. More specifically, we compared wild-type worms at the first day of adulthood with young (day 5), mid-age (day 10) and aged adults (day 15). Moreover, we assessed protein levels of age-matched long-lived genetic models of dietary restriction (eat-2(ad1116)) and reduced insulin/IGF-1 signaling (daf-2(e1370)).
Project description:Transcriptional profiling of whole day 1 adult C. elegans, comparing animals carrying the m79 mutation in the daf-10 gene and wild-type isogenic animals. Genes that act downstream of sensory neurons to influence longevity, dauer formation and pathogen responses in Caenorhabditis elegans Manuscript abstract: Two-condition experiments, daf-10 vs wt, 3 biological repeats of each grown in parallel, verified lifespan increase in daf-10 mutant animals
Project description:Investigation of whole genome gene expression level changes in C. elegans rsks-1, daf-2, daf-2 rsks-1 and daf-16; daf-2 rsks-1 mutant compared to the wild-type N2 strain. The mutants have altered longevity phenotypes. The mutants analyzed in this study are further described in Di Chen, Patrick Wai-Lun Li, Benjamin A. Goldstein, Waijiao Cai, Emma Lynn Thomas, Fen Chen, Alan E. Hubbard, Simon Melov and Pankaj Kapahi, Germline Signaling Mediates the Synergistically Prolonged Longevity by Double Mutations in daf-2 and rsks-1 in C. elegans, Cell Reports (CELL-REPORTS-D-13-00388). A 47 chip study using total RNAs from C. elegans wild-type N2 (9 replicates), rsks-1 mutant (9 replicates), daf-2 mutant (9 replicates), daf-2 rsks-1 double mutant (10 replicates) and daf-16; daf-2 rsks-1 triple mutant (10 replicates) measured gene expression levels at the whole genome level.
