About the Authors
- Malene Hansen
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¤ Current address: Burnham Institute for Medical Research, La Jolla, California, United States of America
Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Abha Chandra
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
- Laura L Mitic
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Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Brian Onken
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
- Monica Driscoll
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Affiliation Department of Molecular Biology and Biochemistry, Rutgers University, Piscataway, New Jersey, United States of America
- Cynthia Kenyon
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*To whom correspondence should be addressed. E-mail: ckenyon@biochem.ucsf.edu
Affiliation Department of Biochemistry and Biophysics, University of California San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
Competing Interests
The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
Author Contributions
AC carried out the experiments involving dietary restriction of wild-type worms in liquid media as well as the spectrophotometric analysis involving bec-1 RNAi treatments. LLM created the strains CF1850, 1908, and 2946 and assisted in the lifespan analysis of CF2846. BO carried out the spectrophotometric analysis involving rab-10 RNAi treatments and assisted in the experiments involving dietary restriction of wild-type worms in liquid media. MH carried out all of the other experiments. MH and CK designed the experiments and wrote the paper.