Sipeng Wu, Yiqi Cai, Lixiao Zhang, Xiang Li, Xu Liu, Guangkeng Zhou, Hongdi Luo, Renjian Li, Yujia Huo, Zhirong Zhang, Siyi Chen, Jinliang Huang, Jiahao Shi, Shanwei Ding, Zhe Sun, Zizhuo Zhou, Pengcheng Wang, Geng Wang
One of the basic questions in the ageing field is whether there is fundamental difference between the ageing of lower invertebrates and mammals. A major difference between the lower invertebrates and mammals is the abundancy of noncoding RNAs, most of which are not conserved. We have previously identified a noncoding RNA Terc-53 that is derived from the RNA component of telomerase Terc. To study its physiological functions, we generated two transgenic mouse models overexpressing the RNA in wild-type and early-ageing Terc-/- backgrounds...
May 9, 2024: Protein & Cell