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Nutritional Programming of Lifespan by FOXO Inhibition on Sugar-Rich Diets

Dobson, Adam J., Ezcurra, Marina, Flanagan, Charlotte E., Summerfield, Adam C., Piper, Matthew D.W., Gems, David, Alic, Nazif (2017) Nutritional Programming of Lifespan by FOXO Inhibition on Sugar-Rich Diets. Cell Reports, 8 (2). pp. 229-306. ISSN 2211-1247. (doi:10.1016/j.celrep.2016.12.029) (KAR id:91106)

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Abstract

Consumption of unhealthy diets is exacerbating the burden of age-related ill health in aging populations. Such diets can program mammalian physiology to cause long-term, detrimental effects. Here, we show that, in Drosophila melanogaster, an unhealthy, high-sugar diet in early adulthood programs lifespan to curtail later-life survival despite subsequent dietary improvement. Excess dietary sugar promotes insulin-like signaling, inhibits dFOXO—the Drosophila homolog of forkhead box O (FOXO) transcription factors—and represses expression of dFOXO target genes encoding epigenetic regulators. Crucially, dfoxo is required both for transcriptional changes that mark the fly’s dietary history and for nutritional programming of lifespan by excess dietary sugar, and this mechanism is conserved in Caenorhabditis elegans. Our study implicates FOXO factors, the evolutionarily conserved determinants of animal longevity, in the mechanisms of nutritional programming of animal lifespan.

Item Type: Article
DOI/Identification number: 10.1016/j.celrep.2016.12.029
Uncontrolled keywords: aging, forkhead box O, nutritional programming of lifespan, Drosophila, diet, transcriptional regulation
Subjects: Q Science > QP Physiology (Living systems)
Divisions: Divisions > Division of Natural Sciences > Biosciences
Depositing User: Marina Ezcurra
Date Deposited: 27 Oct 2021 07:44 UTC
Last Modified: 28 Oct 2021 17:34 UTC
Resource URI: https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/91106 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes)
Ezcurra, Marina: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2739-6984
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