title: Aging: from radiant youth to an abrupt end.
abstract: A gene that controls growth rate, radiation resistance and lifespan in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans has been found to encode a homologue of a yeast telomere maintenance factor, raising the possibility that checkpoint control, telomere maintenance and aging may be linked in unanticipated ways.
authors.affiliation: Department of MCD Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA. rothman@lifesci.ucsb.edu
authors.forename: Joel H
authors.initials: JH
authors.lastname: Rothman
mesh_terms: D000375:Aging / Q000378:metabolism*; D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000378:metabolism*; D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D016615:Telomere / Q000502:physiology*; D034501:Telomere-Binding Proteins
chemical_list: D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D034501:Telomere-Binding Proteins; C438752:clk-2 protein, C elegans