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March 2010

Quantitative theory of telomere length regulation and cellular senescence. Ignacio A. Rodriguez-Brenes1 and Charles S. Peskin. PNAS Published online before print March 5, 2010. Link.

Arrestin and the Multi-PDZ domain containing protein MPZ-1 interact with PTEN and regulate C. elegans longevity. Aimee Palmitessa and Jeffrey L Benovic. J. Biol. Chem. published 5 March 2010. Link.

Feedback between p21 and reactive oxygen production is necessary for cell senescence
Joăo F Passos, Glyn Nelson, Chunfang Wang, Torsten Richter, Cedric Simillion, Carole J Proctor, Satomi Miwa, Sharon Olijslagers, Jennifer Hallinan, Anil Wipat, Gabriele Saretzki, Karl Lenhard Rudolph, Tom B L Kirkwood & Thomas von Zglinicki. Molecular Systems Biology 6 Article number: 347. Link.

February 2010

Arboreality has allowed for the evolution of increased longevity in mammals. Milena R. Shattuck and Scott A. Williams. PNAS February 22. Link.

Rodríguez-Grańa L, Calliari D, Tiselius P, Hansen BW, Sköld HN
Gender-specific ageing and non-Mendelian inheritance of oxidative damage in marine copepods. MEPS 401:1-13. Paper on open access here.

CENP-A reduction induces a p53-dependent cellular senescence response to protect cells from executing defective mitoses. Kayoko Maehara, Kohta Takahashi, and Shigeaki Saitoh. Mol. Cell. Biol. published 16 February 2010. Abstract.

Wild-type and HUPKI ( human P53 knock-in)murine embryonic fibroblasts: P53/ARF pathway disruption in spontaneous escape from senescence. Catherine Whibley, Adam F. Odell, Tatiana Nedelko, Gregor Balaburski, Maureen Murphy, Zhipei Liu, Louisa Stevens, John H. Walker, Michael Routledge, and Monica Hollstein. J. Biol. Chem. published 4 February 2010. Link.

WIP1 phosphatase at the crossroads of cancer and aging. Xavier Le Guezennec, Dmitry V. Bulavin. Trends in Biochemical Sciences Volume 35, Issue 2, Pages 109-114. Link.

New vaccine tailored to the weakened elderly immune system p137. Charlotte Schubert. News. Nature Medicine 16, 137. Link.

Wild-type and human HUPKI ( human P53 knock-in)murine embryonic fibroblasts: P53/ARF pathway disruption in spontaneous escape from senescence. Catherine Whibley, Adam F. Odell, Tatiana Nedelko, Gregor Balaburski, Maureen Murphy, Zhipei Liu, Louisa Stevens, John H. Walker, Michael Routledge, and Monica Hollstein.  J. Biol. Chem. published 29 January 2010. Link.

Chromatin repair after oxidative stress: Role of PARP-mediated proteasome activation. Betul Catalgol, Brigitte Wendt, Stephanie Grimm, Nicolle Breusing, Nesrin Kartal Özer, Tilman Grune. Free Radical Biology and Medicine Volume 48, Issue 5, Pages 673-680. Link.

Update on the oxidative stress theory of aging: Does oxidative stress play a role in aging or healthy aging? Adam B. Salmon, Arlan Richardson, Viviana I. Pérez. Free Radical Biology and Medicine Volume 48, Issue 5, Pages 642-655. Link.

January 2010

Prevention of premature senescence requires JNK regulation of Bcl-2 and reactive oxygen species. J -J Lee, J -H Lee, Y -G Ko, S I Hong and J -S Lee. Oncogene 2010 29: 561-575. Link.

A G1 Checkpoint Mediated by the Retinoblastoma Protein That Is Dispensable in Terminal Differentiation but Essential for Senescence. Srikanth Talluri, Christian E. Isaac, Mohammad Ahmad, Shauna A. Henley, Sarah M. Francis, Alison L. Martens, Rod Bremner, and Frederick A. Dick. Mol. Cell. Biol. 2010;30 948-960. Link.

BNDF modulates normal human hippocampal ageing. F Sambataro, V P Murty, H S Lemaitre, J D Reed, S Das, T E Goldberg, J H Callicott, D R Weinberger and V S Mattay. Mol Psychiatry 2010 15: 116-118. Link.

Senescence: A key role for CDK2. Emily J. Chenette. Nature Reviews Cancer 10, 84. Link.

The Polarisome Is Required for Segregation and Retrograde Transport of Protein Aggregates. B. Liu, L. Larsson, A. Caballero, X. Hao, D. Öling, J. Grantham, and T. Nyström. Cell, Volume 140, Issue 2, 257-267. Link.

Evolution in Health and Medicine Sackler Colloquium: Genetic variation in human telomerase is associated with telomere length in Ashkenazi centenarians. Gil Atzmon, Miook Cho, Richard M. Cawthon, Temuri Budagov, Micol Katz, Xiaoman Yang, Glenn Siegel, Aviv Bergman, Derek M. Huffman, Clyde B. Schechter, Woodring E. Wright, Jerry W. Shay, Nir Barzilai, Diddahally R. Govindaraju, and Yousin Suh. PNAS. Link.

Regulation of ploidy and senescence by the AMPK-related kinase NUAK1. Nicolas Humbert, Naveenan Navaratnam, Arnaud Augert, Marco Da Costa, Sébastien Martien, Jing Wang, Dolores Martinez, Corinne Abbadie, David Carling, Yvan de Launoit, Jesus Gil and David Bernard. The EMBO Journal (2010), 29, 376 - 386. Link.

Signaling through Tyr985 of Leptin Receptor as an Age/diet-dependent Switch in the Regulation of Energy Balance. Jia You, Yue Yu, Lei Jiang, Wenxia Li, Xinxin Yu, Lety Gonzalez, Guoqing Yang, Zunji Ke, Wenjun Li, Cai Li, and Yong Liu. Mol. Cell. Biol. published 19 January 2010. Link.

Plasticity of telomere maintenance mechanisms in yeast. Neal F. Lue. Trends in Biochemical Sciences Volume 35, Issue 1, Pages 8-17. Link.

Cytokine expression and signaling in drug-induced cellular senescence. Z Novakova, S Hubackova, M Kosar, L Janderova-Rossmeislova, J Dobrovolna, P Vasicova, M Vancurova, Z Horejsi, P Hozak, J Bartek and Z Hodny. Oncogene 2010 29: 273-284. Link.

November

Genetic variation in human telomerase is associated with telomere length in Ashkenazi centenarians. Gil Atzmon, Miook Cho, Richard M. Cawthon, Temuri Budagov, Micol Katz, Xiaoman Yang, Glenn Siegel, Aviv Bergman, Derek M. Huffman, Clyde B. Schechter, Woodring E. Wright, Jerry W. Shay, Nir Barzilai, Diddahally R. Govindaraju and Yousin Suh. Published online before print November 13, 2009. Link.

Increased muscle PGC-1α expression protects from sarcopenia and metabolic disease during aging. Tina Wenz, Susana G. Rossi, Richard L. Rotundo, Bruce M. Spiegelman and Carlos T. Moraes. Published online before print November 16, 2009. Link.

Age-related hearing loss in C57BL/6J mice is mediated by Bak-dependent mitochondrial apoptosis. Shinichi Someya, Jinze Xu, Kenji Kondo, Dalian Ding, Richard J. Salvi, Tatsuya Yamasoba, Peter S. Rabinovitch, Richard Weindruch, Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, Masaru Tanokura, and Tomas A. Prolla. PNAS  November 17, 2009   vol. 106  no. 46  19432-19437. Link.

Cannabinoid agonist WIN-55,212-2 partially restores neurogenesis in the aged rat brain. Y Marchalant, H M Brothers and G L Wenk. Mol Psychiatry 2009 14: 1068-1069. Link.

New neuron production can be increased in the hippocampus of aged rats following cannabinoid treatment. Y Marchalant, H M Brothers and G L Wenk. Mol Psychiatry 2009 14: 1067. Link.

SnoN functions as a tumour suppressor by inducing premature senescence. Deng Pan, Qingwei Zhu and Kunxin Luo. The EMBO Journal (2009), 28, 3500 - 3513. Link.

Fibroblasts from long-lived mutant mice show diminished ERK1/2 phosphorylation but exaggerated induction of immediate early genes. Liou Y. Sun, Michael J. Steinbaugh, Michal M. Masternak, Andrzej Bartke, Richard A. Miller. Free Radical Biology and Medicine Volume 47, Issue 12, Pages 1753-1761. Link.

Age-related hearing loss in C57BL/6J mice is mediated by Bak-dependent mitochondrial apoptosis. Shinichi Someya, Jinze Xu, Kenji Kondo, Dalian Ding, Richard J. Salvi, Tatsuya Yamasoba, Peter S. Rabinovitch, Richard Weindruch, Christiaan Leeuwenburgh, Masaru Tanokura and Tomas A. Proll. Published online before print November 9. PNAS. Link.

Starvation Protects Germline Stem Cells and Extends Reproductive Longevity in C. elegans. Giana Angelo and Marc R. Van Gilst. Science 13 November 2009:
Vol. 326. no. 5955, pp. 954 - 958. Link.

Activation of p53 by Nutlin-3a, an antagonist of MDM2, induces apoptosis and cellular senescence in adult T-cell leukemia cells. H Hasegawa, Y Yamada, H Iha, K Tsukasaki, K Nagai, S Atogami, K Sugahara, K Tsuruda, A Ishizaki and S Kamihira. Leukemia 2009 23: 2090-2101. Link.

Angiotensin II type 1 receptor-associated protein prevents vascular smooth muscle cell senescence via inactivation of calcineurin/nuclear factor of activated T cells pathway. Li-Juan Min, Masaki Mogi, Kouichi Tamura, Jun Iwanami, Akiko Sakata, Teppei Fujita, Kana Tsukuda, Fei Jing, Masaru Iwai and Masatsugu Horiuchi. Journal of Molecular and Cellular Cardiology Volume 47, Issue 6, Pages 798-809. Link.

A longevity protein, Lag2, interacts with SCF complex and regulates SCF function. Yuan Liu, Satoru Mimura, Tsutomu Kishi and Takumi Kamura. The EMBO Journal (2009), 28, 3366 - 3377. Link.

Ionizing radiation induces cellular senescence of articular chondrocytes via negative regulation of SIRT1 by p38 kinase. Eun-Hee Hong, Su-Jae Lee, Jae-Sung Kim, Kee-Ho Lee, Hong-Duck Um, Jae-Hong Kim, Song-Ja Kim, Jong-Il Kim, and Sang-Gu Hwang. J. Biol. Chem. published 3 November 2009. Link.

Water- and nutrient-dependent effects of dietary restriction on Drosophila lifespan. William W. Ja, Gil B. Carvalho, Brian M. Zid, Elizabeth M. Mak, Ted Brummel, and Seymour Benzer. PNAS  November 3, 2009   vol. 106  no. 44  18633-18637. Link.

Glucose Shortens the Life Span of C. elegans by Downregulating DAF-16/FOXO Activity and Aquaporin Gene Expression. S.-J. Lee, C.T. Murphy, and C. Kenyon. Cell Metabolism, Volume 10, Issue 5, 379-391. Link.

p53-Dependent Translational Control of Senescence and Transformation via 4E-BPs. E. Petroulakis, A. Parsyan, R.J.O. Dowling, O. LeBacquer, Y. Martineau, M. Bidinosti, O. Larsson, T. Alain, L. Rong, Y. Mamane, M. Paquet, L. Furic, I. Topisirovic, D. Shahbazian, M. Livingstone, M. Costa-Mattioli, J.G. Teodoro, and N. Sonenberg. Cancer Cell, Volume 16, Issue 5, 439-446. Link.

Induction of autophagy by spermidine promotes longevity. Tobias Eisenberg, Heide Knauer, Alexandra Schauer, Sabrina Büttner, Christoph Ruckenstuhl, Didac Carmona-Gutierrez, Julia Ring, Sabrina Schroeder, Christoph Magnes, Lucia Antonacci, Heike Fussi, Luiza Deszcz, Regina Hartl, Elisabeth Schraml, Alfredo Criollo, Evgenia Megalou, Daniela Weiskopf, Peter Laun, Gino Heeren, Michael Breitenbach, Beatrix Grubeck-Loebenstein, Eva Herker, Birthe Fahrenkrog, Kai-Uwe Fröhlich, Frank Sinner, Nektarios Tavernarakis, Nadege Minois, Guido Kroemer & Frank Madeo. Nature Cell Biology 11, 1305 - 1314. Link.

RelA/p65 functions to maintain cellular senescence by regulating genomic stability and DNA repair. Jingxin Wang, Naduparambil K Jacob, Katherine J Ladner, Amer Beg, James D Perko, Stephan M Tanner, Sandya Liyanarachchi, Richard Fishel and Denis C Guttridge. EMBO reports (2009), 10, 1272 - 1278. Link.

Deceptively simple but simply deceptive – Caenorhabditis elegans lifespan studies: Considerations for aging and antioxidant effects. Jan Gruber, Li Fang Ng, Suresh Kumar Poovathingal, Barry Halliwell. FEBS Letters Volume 583, Issue 21, Pages 3377-3387. Link.

October

Age-associated increase in lifespan of naďve CD4 T cells contributes to T-cell homeostasis but facilitates development of functional defects. Hirotake Tsukamoto, Karen Clise-Dwyer, Gail E. Huston, Debra K. Duso, Amanda L. Buck, Lawrence L. Johnson, Laura Haynes and Susan L. Swain. PNAS  October 27, 2009   vol. 106  no. 43  18333-18338. Link.

Mechanism of lysine oxidation in human lens crystallins during aging and in diabetes. Xingjun Fan, Jianye Zhang, Mathilde Theves, Christopher Strauch, Ina Nemet, Xiaoqin Liu, Juan Qian, Frank J. Giblin and Vincent M. Monnier. JBC First Published on October 23, 2009. Link.

Water- and nutrient-dependent effects of dietary restriction on Drosophila lifespan. William W. Jaa, Gil B. Carvalhoa, Brian M. Zida, Elizabeth M. Maka, Ted Brummelb and Seymour Benzer. PNAS online October 19. Link.

DJ-1 and prevention of oxidative stress in Parkinson's disease and other age-related disorders. Philipp J. Kahle. Jens Waak and Thomas Gasser. Free Radical Biology and Medicine. Volume 47, Issue 10, Pages 1354-1361. Link.

JNK/FOXO-mediated Neuronal Expression of Fly Homologue of Peroxiredoxin II Reduces Oxidative Stress and Extends Life Span. Kyu-Sun Lee, Kanae Iijima-Ando, Koichi Iijima, Won-Jae Lee, Joon H. Lee, Kweon Yu and Dong-Seok Lee. The Journal of Biological Chemistry, 284, pp 29454-29461. Link.

TGF-β enforces senescence in Myc-transformed hematopoietic tumor cells through induction of Mad1 and repression of Myc activity. Siqin Wu, Anne Hultquist, Per Hydbring, Cihan Cetinkaya, Fredrik Öberg, Lars-Gunnar Larsson. Experimental Cell Research,Volume 315, Issue 18, Pages 3099-3111. Link.

Immune Activation in Brain Aging and Neurodegeneration: Too Much or Too Little?. K.M. Lucin and T. Wyss-Coray. Neuron, Volume 64, Issue 1, 110-122. Link.

Stem cells: A fateful age gap. Tim Stearns. News and Views. Nature 461, 891-892. Link.

Transit-Amplifying Cell Frequency and Cell Cycle Kinetics Are Altered in Aged Epidermis. Alexandra Charruyer, Chantal O Barland, Lili Yue, Heike B Wessendorf, Ying Lu, H Jeffrey Lawrence, Maria L Mancianti and Ruby Ghadially. J Invest Dermatol 2009 129: 2574-2583. Link.

Aging Epidermis Is Maintained by Changes in Transit-Amplifying Cell Kinetics, Not Stem Cell Kinetics. Michael C Winter and Jackie R Bickenbach. J Invest Dermatol 2009 129: 2541-2543. Link.

Vaccination with Mage-b DNA induces CD8 T-cell responses at young but not old age in mice with metastatic breast cancer. F Castro, B Leal, A Denny, R Bahar, S Lampkin, R Reddick, S Lu and C Gravekamp.
Translational Therapeutics
BJC Open article
British Journal of Cancer (2009) 101, 1329–1337

Dispatch
Aging: Fruit Flies Break the Chain to a Longer Life. Nancy J. Linford and Scott D. Pletcher. Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 19, R895-R898. Link.

Extension of Drosophila Life Span by RNAi of the Mitochondrial Respiratory Chain. Jeffrey M. Copeland, Jaehyoung Cho, Thomas Lo, Jae H. Hur, Sepehr Bahadorani, Tagui Arabyan, Jason Rabie, Jennifer Soh and David W. Walker. Current Biology, Volume 19, Issue 19, 1591-1598. Link.

News of the Week
Physiology Nobel:
U.S. Researchers Recognized for Work on Telomeres
Gretchen Vogel and Elizabeth Pennisi
Science 9 October 2009: Vol. 326. no. 5950, pp. 212 - 213. Link.

Community Corner
Biomarkers for Alzheimer's disease: the dilemma of silent disease
Nature Medicine 15, 1130. Link.

Featured Review:

Healing and Hurting: Molecular Mechanisms, Functions, and Pathologies of Cellular Senescence
P.D. Adams. Molecular Cell, Volume 36, Issue 1, 2-14. Link.

Age-associated increase in lifespan of naďve CD4 T cells contributes to T-cell homeostasis but facilitates development of functional defects.  Hirotake Tsukamoto, Karen Clise-Dwyer, Gail E. Huston, Debra K. Duso, Amanda L. Buck, Lawrence L. Johnson, Laura Haynes, and Susan L. Swain. Published online before print October 8. Link.

Regenerative Medicine Special Feature: Genetic engineering of human stem cells for enhanced angiogenesis using biodegradable polymeric nanoparticles. Fan Yang, Seung-Woo Cho, Sun Mi Son, Said R. Bogatyrev, Deepika Singh, Jordan J. Green, Ying Mei, Sohyun Park, Suk Ho Bhang, Byung-Soo Kim, Robert Langer, and Daniel G. Anderson. Published online before print October 5, 2009. Link.

Research Highlights
Ageing: Live longer, but how? Nature 461, 700-701. Link.

News
Chromosome protection scoops Nobel
Prize for physiology or medicine awarded for uncovering role of telomeres.
Alison Abbott
Published online 5 October 2009 | 461, 706-707 (2009) Link.

Prohibitin couples diapause signalling to mitochondrial metabolism during ageing in C. elegans. Marta Artal-Sanz & Nektarios Tavernarakis. Nature 461, 793-797. Link.

Cell surface-bound IL-1{alpha} is an upstream regulator of the senescence-associated IL-6/IL-8 cytokine network. Arturo V. Orjalo, Dipa Bhaumik, Bridget K. Gengler, Gary K. Scott, and Judith Campisi. PNAS  October 6, 2009   vol. 106  no. 40  17031-17036. Link.

LKB1 Regulates Pancreatic β Cell Size, Polarity, and Function. Z. Granot, A. Swisa, J. Magenheim, M. Stolovich-Rain, W. Fujimoto, E. Manduchi, T. Miki, J.K. Lennerz, C.J. Stoeckert, Jr., O. Meyuhas, S. Seino, M.A. Permutt, H. Piwnica-Worms, N. Bardeesy, and Y. Dor. Cell Metabolism, Volume 10, Issue 4, 296-308. Link.

Loss of Lkb1 in Adult βCells Increases β Cell Mass and Enhances Glucose Tolerance in Mice. A. Fu, A.C.-H. Ng, C. Depatie, N. Wijesekara, Y. He, G.-S. Wang, N. Bardeesy, F.W. Scott, R.M. Touyz, M.B. Wheeler, and R.A. Screaton. Cell Metabolism, Volume 10, Issue 4, 285-295. Link.

Translate This . . . during Dietary Restriction. B.K. Kennedy and V.L. MacKay. Cell Metabolism, Volume 10, Issue 4, 247-248. Link.

Reactive Oxygen Species Enhance Insulin Sensitivity. K. Loh, H. Deng, A. Fukushima, X. Cai, B. Boivin, S. Galic, C. Bruce, B.J. Shields, B. Skiba, L.M. Ooms, N. Stepto, B. Wu, C.A. Mitchell, N.K. Tonks, M.J. Watt, M.A. Febbraio, P.J. Crack, S. Andrikopoulos, and T. Tiganis. Cell Metabolism, Volume 10, Issue 4, 260-272. Link.

Telomeric circles: universal players in telomere maintenance? pp1010 - 1015
Lubomir Tomaska, Jozef Nosek, Juraj Kramara and Jack D Griffith. Nature Structural & Molecular Biology 16, 1010 - 1015. Link.

Rb2/p130 is the dominating pocket protein in the p53–p21 DNA damage response pathway leading to senescence. H Helmbold, N Kömm, W Deppert and W Bohn. Oncogene 2009 28: 3456-3467. Link.

Effect of a nutrient-enriched drink on dietary intake and nutritional status in institutionalised elderly. M Manders, C P G M de Groot, Y H Blauw, R A M Dhonukshe-Rutten, L van Hoeckel-Prüst, J G Bindels, E Siebelink and W A van Staveren. Eur J Clin Nutr 2009 63: 1241-1250. Link.

Cell surface-bound IL-1{alpha} is an upstream regulator of the senescence-associated IL-6/IL-8 cytokine network. Arturo V. Orjalo, Dipa Bhaumik, Bridget K. Gengler, Gary K. Scott, and Judith Campisi. Link.

Ribosomal Protein S6 Kinase 1 Signaling Regulates Mammalian Life Span
C. Selman et al. Science 2 October 2009: Vol. 326. no. 5949, pp. 140 - 144. Abstract.

4E-BP Extends Lifespan upon Dietary Restriction by Enhancing Mitochondrial Activity in Drosophila. B.M. Zid, A.N. Rogers, S.D. Katewa, M.A. Vargas, M.C. Kolipinski, T.A. Lu, S. Benzer, and P. Kapahi. Cell, Volume 139, Issue 1, 149-160. Link.

September

A quantitative model for age-dependent expression of the p16INK4a tumor suppressor. Denis Tsygankov, Yan Liu, Hanna K. Sanoff, Norman E. Sharpless, and Timothy C. Elston. PNAS vol. 106  no. 39, pp16562-16567. Link.

The regulation of aging: does autophagy underlie longevity? Tibor Vellai, Krisztina Takács-Vellai, Miklós Sass and Daniel J. Klionsky. Trends in Cell Biology, Volume 19, Issue 10, Pages 487-494. Link.

RAS in cellular transformation and senescence. Gina M. DeNicola, David A. Tuveson. European Journal of Cancer, Volume 45, Supplement 1, Pages 211-216. Link.

A quantitative model for age-dependent expression of the p16INK4a tumor suppressor. Denis Tsygankova, Yan Liub, Hanna K. Sanoffb, Norman E. Sharpless and Timothy C. Elston. Published online before print September 14, 2009. Link.

From the Rarest to the Most Common: Insights from Progeroid Syndromes into Skin Cancer and Aging. Brian C Capell, Brook E Tlougan and Seth J Orlow. J Invest Dermatol 2009 129: 2340-2350. Link.

PD-1+ memory phenotype CD4+ T cells expressing C/EBP{alpha} underlie T cell immunodepression in senescence and leukemia. Kenichiro Shimatani, Yasuhiro Nakashima, Masakazu Hattori, Yoko Hamazaki, and Nagahiro Minato. PNAS  September 15, 2009   vol. 106  no. 37  15807-15812 Link.

SIRT1 markedly extends replicative lifespan if the NAD+ salvage pathway is enhanced. Cynthia Ho, Eric van der Veer, Oula Akawi, J. Geoffrey Pickering. FEBS Letters
Volume 583, Issue 18, Pages 3081-3085. Link.

PARP-1 Deficiency Increases the Severity of Disease in a Mouse Model of Multiple Sclerosis. Vimal Selvaraj, Mangala M. Soundarapandian, Olga Chechneva, Ambrose J. Williams, Maxim K. Sidorov, Athena M. Soulika, David E. Pleasure, and Wenbin Deng. J. Biol. Chem. 2009;284 26070-26084. Link.

Drastic increase of myosin light chain MLC-2 in senescent skeletal muscle indicates fast-to-slow fibre transition in sarcopenia of old age. Joan Gannon, Philip Doran, Anne Kirwan, Kay Ohlendieck. European Journal of Cell Biology, Volume 88, Issue 11Pages 685-700. Link.

Ageing: Secrets of a long life. Charlotte Harrison. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 8, 698-699. Link.

Connecting obesity, aging and diabetes. Rexford S. Ahima. News and Views, Nature Medicine 15, pp996 - 997. Link.

Senescence and p130/Rbl2: a new beginning to the end. Francesco P Fiorentino, Catherine E Symonds, Marcella Macaluso and Antonio Giordano. Cell Res 2009 19: 1044-1051. Link.

Papillary hyperplasia of the gallbladder in pancreaticobiliary maljunction represents a senescence-related lesion induced by lysolecithin. Junpei Yamaguchi, Motoko Sasaki, Kenichi Harada, Yoh Zen, Yasunori Sato, Hiroko Ikeda, Keita Itatsu, Yukihiro Yokoyama, Hisami Ando, Tetsuo Ohta, Akio Kubota, Koichi Shimizu, Yuji Nimura, Masato Nagino and Yasuni Nakanuma. Laboratory Investigation (2009) 89, 1018–1031. Link.

JNK/FOXO-mediated neuronal expression of fly homologue of peroxiredoxin II reduces oxidative stress and extends lifespan. Kyu-Sun Lee, Kanae Iijima-Ando, Koichi Iijima, Won-Jae Lee, Joon H. Lee, Kweon Yu, and Dong-Seok Lee. J. Biol. Chem. published 31 August 2009. Link.

Collapse of proteostasis represents an early molecular event in Caenorhabditis elegans aging. Anat Ben-Zvi, Elizabeth A. Miller, and Richard I. Morimoto. PNAS vol. 106  no. 35  14914-14919. Abstract.

p53 isoforms Δ133p53 and p53β are endogenous regulators of replicative cellular senescence. Kaori Fujita, Abdul M. Mondal, Izumi Horikawa, Giang H. Nguyen, Kensuke Kumamoto, Jane J. Sohn, Elise D. Bowman, Ewy A. Mathe, Aaron J. Schetter, Sharon R. Pine, Helen Ji, Borivoj Vojtesek, Jean-Christophe Bourdon, David P. Lane and Curtis C. Harris. Nature Cell Biology 11, pp1135 - 1142. Link.

Ageing: Secrets of a long life. Charlotte Harrison. Nature Reviews Drug Discovery 8, 698-699. Link.