HIF-1 modulates longevity and healthspan in a temperature-dependent manner.
The hypoxia-inducible factor HIF-1 has recently been identified as an important modifier of longevity in the roundworm Caenorhabditis elegans. Studies have reported that HIF-1 can function as both a positive and negative regulator of life span, and several disparate models have been proposed for the role of HIF in aging. Here, we resolve many of the apparent discrepancies between these studies. We find that stabilization of HIF-1 increases life span robustly under all conditions tested; however, deletion of hif-1 increases life span in a temperature-dependent manner. Animals lacking HIF-1 are long lived at 25°C but not at 15°C. We further report that deletion or RNAi knockdown of hif-1 impairs healthspan at lower temperatures because of an age-dependent loss of vulval integrity. Deletion of hif-1 extends life span modestly at 20°C when animals displaying the vulval integrity defect are censored from the experimental data, but fails to extend life span if these animals are included. Knockdown of hif-1 results in nuclear relocalization of the FOXO transcription factor DAF-16, and DAF-16 is required for life span extension from deletion of hif-1 at all temperatures regardless of censoring.
Department of Pathology, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98195, USA.
Scott F
SF
Leiser
Anisoara
A
Begun
Matt
M
Kaeberlein
D000375:Aging / Q000235:genetics; D000818:Animals; D017173:Caenorhabditis elegans / Q000033:anatomy & histology / Q000502:physiology*; D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D002467:Cell Nucleus / Q000378:metabolism; D051858:Forkhead Transcription Factors; D051793:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1 / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism*; D008136:Longevity; D034622:RNA Interference; D013696:Temperature; D014157:Transcription Factors / Q000235:genetics / Q000378:metabolism
D029742:Caenorhabditis elegans Proteins; D051858:Forkhead Transcription Factors; D051793:Hypoxia-Inducible Factor 1; D014157:Transcription Factors; C108831:daf-16 protein, C elegans
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