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| Status |
Public on Aug 01, 2008 |
| Title |
Mutations Increasing Drosophila melanogaster Life Span |
| Organism |
Drosophila melanogaster |
| Experiment type |
Expression profiling by array
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| Summary |
ABSTRACT
MAGWIRE, MICHAEL MAHLON. Mutations Increasing Drosophila melanogaster
Life Span. (Under the direction of Trudy F. C. Mackay.)
Better living conditions and advances in medicine have made it possible for
humans to live considerably longer than before. This has uncovered many
health problems associated with age. By identifying genes involved in the
limitation of life span, we may better understand the processes that lead to aging.
In model organisms, we can use mutagenesis to discover mutations that
increase life span, and hence infer that the wild-type allele limits life span by some means.
We have assessed longevity in a collection of 1332 co-isogenic gene-trap
P-element insertion lines and determined changes in life span of each insert line relative to the corresponding control line. Significant lines were determined via two different methods of analysis: A 95% confidence interval was established based on deviations of the mutant life spans from the controls and Dunnett’s two tailed t-tests were used to examine differences between mutant and control in each individual block. Based on the 95% confidence interval, 139 inserts displayed an increase in life span and 194 inserts a decrease. Using Dunnett’s, 70 lines increased in life span, while 270 decreased in life span. An additional 48 increased longevity lines were close enough to meeting Dunnett’s criteria to be considered for additional investigation. Combining these two analyses, we chose 83 inserts associated with increased life span for a secondary screen using an
additional twelve replicates. 58 of these lines remained significant. We have
determined the P-element insertion site for 50 of these lines.
Starvation resistance, chill coma recovery time and climbing activity were
measured on the lines remaining significant after the the secondary screen to identify pleiotropic effects. A positive correlation was found for males between life span and starvation resistance as well as between life span and chill coma recovery. Females only displayed a correlation between life span and chill coma recovery, which was negative. None of the lines indicated increased fitness for all phenotypes, indicating there may be some type of trade-off. There also appears to be a lot of pleiotropic variation depending on background and sex.
Ten of the lines, all with the same parental background, were chosen for a
half-diallel cross to identify epistasis between the mutants. There were
substantial epistatic interactions between all ten lines. Furthermore, males and females displayed vastly different patterns of epistasis, again indicating major differences in life span regulation between the sexes.
Finally, a subset of seven of the lines used in the epistatic study, in
addition to the corresponding parental control, were chosen for microarray
analysis to look for possible pathways and novel genes involved in increasing life span. 1,996 probe sets were significant at a false discovery rate q-value
threshold of q < 0.0001. Tukeys tests were carried out for these probe sets to determine how each of the seven mutant backgrounds differed compared to the control and each other. In addition, each mutant background was compared individually with the control to identify any changes in expression. Gene ontologies were determined for each of the lines to identify over-represented biological functions which would indicate possible longevity pathways. Dozens of pathways were suggested, including several novel pathways.
Keywords: Genetic (P-element insertion) modification and comparison to control line
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| Overall design |
We used seven mutant lines homozygous for a P-element insertion and a control line. All lines were isogenic other than the P-element insert. Males and females were done separately with two replicates for a total of 32 arrays.
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| Contributor(s) |
Magwire MM, Yamamoto A, Carbone M, Roshina NV, Pasyukova EG, Morozova TV, Mackay TF |
| Citation(s) |
20686706 |
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| Submission date |
Aug 14, 2007 |
| Last update date |
Aug 28, 2018 |
| Contact name |
Mike Magwire |
| E-mail(s) |
[email protected]
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| Phone |
919-515-5770
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| Organization name |
NCSU
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| Department |
Genetics
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| Lab |
Mackay
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| Street address |
3501 Gardner Hall
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| City |
Raleigh |
| State/province |
NC |
| ZIP/Postal code |
27695 |
| Country |
USA |
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| Platforms (1) |
| GPL1322 |
[Drosophila_2] Affymetrix Drosophila Genome 2.0 Array |
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| Samples (32)
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| Relations |
| BioProject |
PRJNA102065 |
| Supplementary file |
Size |
Download |
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| GSE8775_RAW.tar |
72.6 Mb |
(http)(custom) |
TAR (of CEL, CHP) |
| Processed data included within Sample table |
| Processed data provided as supplementary file |
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