A Manually Curated Knowledgebase of Aging across a variety of Species

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Name afo1
Type SNP
Species Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Tissue NA
Experiment Method other
Up/Down NA
Pro/Anti Anti
Funtion Description Here, we present a new long-lived yeast deletion mutation,afo1 (for aging factor one), that confers a 60% increase in replicative lifespan.A comparison of the single and double mutant strains for afo1 and fob1 shows that the longevity phenotype of afo1 i
Regulation Gene TOR1
Year 2009
Pubmed ID 20157544
Title The mitochondrial ribosomal protein of the large subunit, Afo1p, determines cellular longevity through mitochondrial back-signaling via TOR1
Drug NA
Disease NA
Environment Factors NA
Circulating NA
Variant somatic mutation
High-throughput NA