Interestingly, a metabolic response signature was observed involving decreased energy metabolism and reduced IGF-1 signaling, a major modulator of life span.
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Objectively, no in terms of life span.
The limits of life span are finite.
Of more importance, mutations that decrease the activity of the orthologs of these proteins in higher eukaryotes also extend life span, suggesting that the roles of these kinases in the regulation of life span are conserved along evolution [ 13- 17].
As long as erythrocyte formation is not enhanced, a decrease of erythrocyte life span would lead to a quantitatively similar decrease of erythrocyte count in circulating blood.
As phosphatidylserine exposing erythrocytes are rapidly cleared from circulating blood in vivo[ 9], a doubling of phosphatiylserine exposing erythrocytes in circulating blood is expected to reflect a decrease of erythrocyte life span to half.
The discrepancy of finding of a decrease in life span with the Sir2-1 trandgene and an increase with the Sir2-3 transgene led us to measure the levels of dSir2 expression in these flies.
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Consistent with this conclusion, expression of the dominant mutant transgenes during development tended to decrease the life span of the resultant male and female adults (Supplementary Figure 1A-D, Supplementary Table 1).
