| IME1 | Inducer of MEiosis 1 | Transient overexpression of IME1 resets the replicative lifespan of old cells back to that of young cells [21700873]. | Budding yeast |
| WRN | Werner syndrome, RecQ helicase-like | Mutation in WRN causes Werner Syndrome which characteristics includes prematurely aged facies, scleroderma-like skin changes, cataracts, arteriosclerosis, subcutaneous calcification, and diabetes mellitus [McKusick et al. 1963; 5327241]. Inheritance is autosomal recessive and malignancy is frequent. THe frequency is 3 per million individuals in Japan [7460386].
Cells from a Werner heterozygote exit the cell cycle at a faster rate than do normal cells [8265666]. Loss of WRN promoter aberrant mitotic recombination [11316787].
The single nucleotide polymorphism rs1800392 in WRN has been associated with exceptional longevity in a plethora of genetic signatures [22279548]. WRN was found to be associated with longevity [10069711; 20855428; 20855428; 20855428 ;17903295; 22406557; 16405962; 16405962; 16405962; 20855428; 20855428; 20855428; 22279548]. WRN was found to be associated with longevity [24244950]. | Human |
| Terc | telomerase RNA component | Telomerase null mice exhibit age-dependent telomere shortening and shortened lifespan with succeeding generations. Median lifespan is reduced by 26% in G6 Terc(-/-) mice compared to wild-type or G1-G3 Terc(-/-) (18 months vs. 24 months). G6 Tec(-/-) display hair greying, hair loss, and ulcerative skin lesions, as well as impaired response to wound healing and hematoitopitic ablation, and an increased incidence of cancer [10089885]. Cells from Terc(-/-) mice (G4 and upward) exhibit chromosomes lacking detectable teloemre repeats, aneuplody, and end-to-end fusions [9335332]. | House mouse |
| SWI4 | SWItching deficient 4 | Deletion of SWI4 shortens replicative lifespan by approximately 90% [11805047]. SSD1-V partially suppresses the short lifespan of a swi4 mutant.
Mutation of swi4 results in slow growth and temperature sensitivity, both of which are suppressed by SSD1-V [11805047]. | Budding yeast |
| SUN4 | — | Disruption of SUN4 shortens mean (87.5% of normal), but not maximum, replicative lifespan in BKY1-14c [Austriaco, N.R. (1996) âUTH1 and the Genetic Control of Aging in the Yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae.â Ph.D. Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology; 8810036]
SUN4 mutation causes failure of daughter cells to completely detach and results in a multi-budded morphology [10683261]. | Budding yeast |
| SIM1 | Start Independent of Mitosis 1 | Disruption of SIM1 shortens mean (87.5%), but not maximum, lifespan without causing any other gross changes in cell cycle parameter or growth characteristics [8810036].
Cells bearing deletions in CLB1-4 are unable to undergo mitosis and normally arrest in G2. SIM1 disruption in clb1-4 mutant backgrounds will allow a second round of DNA synthesis without mitosis [8574583]. sim1delta;uth1delta double mutants exhibit various defects, including binucleated cells, benomyl sensitivity, heat shock sensitivity, inability to store glycogen, sensitivity to starvation and failure of spores to germinate [10612745]. | Budding yeast |
| RSR1 | RaS-Related 1 | Deletion of RSR1 (alias BUD1) shortens replicative lifespan [9789734]. | Budding yeast |
| Rgn | regucalcin | Survival among make animals lacking Rgn (alias SMP30) is 50% at 180 days compared to 100% among controls [N. Maruyama, unpublished data].
SMP30-/- mutant mice are indstuguishibale form their SMP30+/+ littermates in terms of development and fertilization capacity [12368201]. However, -/- mice were more susceptible to liver injury after treatment with anti-FAS antibody. SMP30-/- hepatocytes cultures in vitro are more susceptible to apoptosis induced by tumor-necrosis factor (TNF-alpha) plus actinomycin D (ActD) than SMP30+/+ hepatocytes.
| House mouse |
| BNA6 | Biosynthesis of Nicotinic Acid 6 | Deletion of BNA6 (alias QPT1) has no effect on replicative lifespan and is not required for lifespan extension by DR, but is lethal with mutation of NPT1 [11000115]. Deletion of BNA6 decreases chronological lifespan [17110466]. | Nematode |
| POL1 | POLymerase 1 | Mutation of POL1 results in a 20-60% reduction in mean lifespan (in SS111) [12024027] | Budding yeast |
| Hells | helicase, lymphoid specific | A hypomorphic deletion of helicase domains 3, 4 and part of 2, leads to expression of a C-terminal truncated Hells protein causing an extremely short lifespan. with 60% of homozyogous mutants dying after birth and remaining 40% surviving up to seven weeks (around 25 days) [15105378].
Hells disruption results in genomic hypomethylation, de-repression of silenced genes, and premature aging, characterized by decreased proliferation, increased replicative senescence, and altered expression of Bmi-1 and p16INK4a. Hells mutant exhibit significant hypoglycemia, low birth weight and growth retardation, and signs of premature aging such as greying hair and balding, reduced fat deposition, unstable gait, cachexia, and kyphosis [15105378]. | House mouse |
| Npy | neuropeptide Y | Overexpression of Npy under the control of its own promoter results in increased mean and maximum lifespan. However the observed lifespan extension is relatively small (p = 0.0059 by Wilcoxin test and p = 0.05 by t-test; n = 20) [12668588].
The blood pressure of Npy transgenic rats was significantly lower as compared with nontransgenic siblings. Food intake and weight were not significantly different compared to controls [12668588]. | Norway rat |
| NNT1 | Nicotinamide N-methylTransferase 1 | Deletion of NNT1 decreases mean and maximum lifespan by 9 and 19%. 0.5% glucose DR extends the mean and maximum lifespan of NNT1 deletion mutants by 35 and 40%. Overexpression of NNT1 by 5-fold extends mean and maximum replicative lifespan by 18 and 23%, which is approximately of the same magnitude as the lifespan extension obtained from DR. DR in NNT1 overexpression mutant fails to significantly affect the lifespan and only results in extended mean lifespan by 12% and reduced maximum lifespan by 11%. NNT1 overexpression increases rDNA silincing, whereas deletion decreases rDNA silencing. Overexpression of human nicotinamide N-methyltransferase also increases rDNA silencing [12736687]. | Budding yeast |
| Eip71CD | Ecdysone-induced protein 28/29kD | Overexpression of Eip71CD (alias MsrA) in nervous system extends the lifespan by up to 70%, increased resistance to oxidative stress, and delays the onset of senescence-induced decline in activity levels and reproductive capacity. Eip71CD is a downstream effector of foxo [22310715].
Mean and maximum lifespan is increased by up to 2-% in animals that overexpress Eip71CD [20655917]. | Fruit fly |
| NCA3 | Nuclear Control of ATPase 3 | Disruption in NCA3 shortens mean (87% of normal), nut not maximum replicative lifespan without causing any other gross changes in cell cycle parameters of growth characteristics [8810036].
In combination with an NCA2 disruption, NCA3 disruption causes a cryosensitive phenotype on non-fermentable carbon sources due to a defect in the F1-F0 ATP synthetase due to misbalancing of alternate spliceforms of mitochondrial mRNA encoding subunits 6 and 8 of the synthase [7586026]. | Budding yeast |
| SIR2RP1 | NAD-dependent SIR2 | Overexpression of SIR2RP1 results in a significant increase in survival of the vertebrate stage under normla axenic culture conditions, but has no effect on survival of the insect stage of the parasite. SIR2RP1 is mainly localized within the cytoplasm [12383511]. | — |
| INS | insulin | Expression of human insulin under an inducible heat shock promoter increases nematode lifespan by 25% and is also able to enhance the lifespan of daf-2 mutants [11274053]. INS was found to be associated with longevity [22406557; 19367319; 17989723; 19489743]. | Human |
| TERT | telomerase reverse transcriptase | Telomerase-expressing cells (human foreskin fibroblasts, retinal pigment epithelial cells) maintain normal length of telomeres and continue to divide vigorously [9454332]. Cells expression telomerase have reduced staining for beta-galactosidase (a biomarker of cellular senescence) [9501072]. TERT expression is also able to prevent the accelerated replicative senescence observed in cells taken from Werner's patients [10615119].
A haplotype of TERT was correlated with both longer both longer telomere length and exceptional longevity. Mutations in TERT were overpresented in Ashkenazi centenarians [19915151].TERT was not found to be associated with longevity [22136229]. TERT was found to be associated with longevity [23562826]. | Human |
| HSPA9 | heat shock 70kDa protein 9 (mortalin) | Overexpression of HSPA9 (mortalin) increases the proliferation potential of normal fibroblasts [11959102]. Transfection of normal human fibroblasts with human HSPA9 (or the murine Hspa9) overexpression vectors led to an increase in the number of population doublings the cells could sustain before senescing (increase varying from 32-60%, depending on the exact construct used). Transfected cells retain a youthful morphology longer than the controls cells, and there is an dealy in appearance of senescence associated beta-galactosidase activity [10838077]. Mot-2 overexpressing cells exhibit a reduction in p53 transcriptional activation (as measured by expression from vectors containing either luciferase or beta-glactosidase driven by p53 binding sites) [10838077], which might partially or wholly explain the effects of Mot-2 on proliferative potential. HSPA9 is differentially distributed and/or translated in normal vs. transformed cells [8454632]. | Human |
| HSC80 | — | Deletion of HSC82 has no effect on replicative lifespan, but shortens chronological lifespan [11361336]. | Budding yeast |
| HOG1 | High Osmolarity Glycerol response 1 | Deletion of HOG1 shortens replicative lifespan by 25% and prevents lifespan extension by high osmolarity [12391171]. HOG1 is required for many of the transcriptional responses to high osmolarity, including increased glycerol biosynthesis and MSN2/4-dependent stress response [10722658]. HOG1 deletion slightly decreases chronological lifespan and partially suppresses the premature aging phenotype and short lifespan of ISC1 deletion [22445853]. | Budding yeast |
| hep | hemipterous | Overexpression of hey significantly extends median (50%) and maximum (25%) lifespan. A hypomorphic allele of hep (hep1) laerlgy prevents lifespan extension caused by puc heterozygosity [14602080]. | Fruit fly |
| HAP5 | Heme Activator Protein 5 | Deletion of HAP5 shortens replicative lifespan by approximately 40%. This is not a premature aging phenotype as "old" HAP5 cells do not become premature sterile or exhibit other biomarkers of yeast aging [9271578]. HAP5 null mutants are unable to grow on a non-fermentable carbon source [7828851]. | Budding yeast |
| GPD1 | Glycerol-3-Phosphate Dehydrogenase 1 | GPD1 deletion shortens replicative lifespan by 25% and prevents lifespan extension by high osmolarity [12391171]. Transcripational regulation of GPD1 by osmotic stress requires HOG1 [8196651]. | Budding yeast |
| GH1 | growth hormone 1 | Mean lifespan in untreated, affected individuals homozyogus for a deletion at the GH1 locus is significantly shorter (P < 0.05) than in affected siblings or the general population. Individuals homozygous for GH1 deletion demonstrate hereditary dwarfism [12915652]. GH1 was found to be associated with longevity [15771611]. | Human |
