Friday 22 July 2016

How does DNA damage cause ageing in yeast?



As I understand it, in yeast ageing there is daughter cell and mother cell. The daughter cell is has newly "fresh" DNA and mother cell dies after some counts of replication.


What happens to the accumulated DNA damage in the yeast mother cell?


One of theory of human ageing is accumulation of damage in nuclear DNA. The daughter yeast cell is clone of mother, and has same DNA. What happens with this damage?


Edit to simplify: Why is the DNA damage not transferred at all to the daughter cell? The repair mechanism in humans is evidently not perfect, because DNA damage is one of major ageing theories. So if we die from this, how do yeast get around the detrimental affects of DNA damage that cause ageing in humans?




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