Group at National Institute of Genetics identifies rDNA instability as aging pathway

SIR2, an antiaging histone deacetylase gene, maintains lifespan solely by control of rDNA stability (the highly repetitive rDNA clusters exhibit genomic instability). Pertinent experiments were done with yeast mutants

Kimiko SAKA et al., Current Biology online, August 29, 2013

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