Nature Communications (Jan 2020)

DAF-16/FOXO requires Protein Phosphatase 4 to initiate transcription of stress resistance and longevity promoting genes

  • Ilke Sen,
  • Xin Zhou,
  • Alexey Chernobrovkin,
  • Nataly Puerta-Cavanzo,
  • Takaharu Kanno,
  • Jérôme Salignon,
  • Andrea Stoehr,
  • Xin-Xuan Lin,
  • Bora Baskaner,
  • Simone Brandenburg,
  • Camilla Björkegren,
  • Roman A. Zubarev,
  • Christian G. Riedel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-13931-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 17

Abstract

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The transcription factor DAF-16/FOXO mediates a wide variety of aging-preventive responses by driving the expression of stress resistance and longevity promoting genes. Here the authors show that transcriptional initiation at many DAF-16/FOXO target genes requires the dephosphorylation of SPT-5 by Protein Phosphatase 4.