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Dietary switch reveals fast coordinated gene expression changes in Drosophila melanogaster.

Organism Icon Drosophila melanogaster
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Technology Badge Icon Affymetrix Drosophila Genome 2.0 Array (drosophila2)

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Dietary restriction (DR) is one of the most studied interventions known to extend life span. The robustness of its effect across species suggests the existence of conserved mechanisms to reduce mortality rates and increase longevity. However, because DR elicits a large number of physiological changes, many of which are unrelated to the longevity response, it has been difficult to identify these specific mechanisms. Whole-genome gene expression studies have typically reported several hundreds to thousands of differentially expressed genes in response to DR. The fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster shows a remarkable response to a change in diet: after a switch to DR, food mortality rates drop within 2-4 days to the same level as cohorts continuously on DR. Based on this observation, we utilized a novel experimental design to enrich for genes directly associated with the longevity response. By profiling gene expression in a cohort of fruit flies that were switched from normal food to DR we were able to partition genes in several classes with distinct patterns of expression.
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