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Age-dependent differential expression of death-associated protein 6 (Daxx) in various peripheral tissues and different brain regions of C57BL/6 male mice

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Death-associated protein 6 (DAXX) is a ubiquitous protein implicated in various cellular processes such as apoptosis, tumorigenesis, development and transcription. The role of DAXX is however ambiguous and many contradictory results regarding its function in apoptosis upon various cellular stresses are described in the literature. In order to have a better understanding of the role of DAXX throughout the entire organism under physiological stress conditions, we have characterized the mRNA levels, protein expression and the proteolytic processing of DAXX in the normal aging process in peripheral organs and brain regions in C57BL/6 male mice. Overall, Daxx mRNA expression decreases with aging in the liver, kidney, heart, cortex and cerebellum. In contrast, an increase is observed in the striatum. The protein expression of DAXX and of its proteolytic fragments increases with aging in the kidney, heart and cortex. In liver and spleen, no changes are observed while in the striatum and cerebellum, certain forms increase and others decrease with age, suggesting that the functions of DAXX may be cell type dependent. This study provides important details regarding the expression and post-translational modifications of DAXX in aging in the entire organism and provides reference data for the deregulation observed in age-associated diseases.

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Acknowledgments

This research was undertaken, in part, by the Canada Research Chairs Program. RKG holds the Canada Research Chair in Neurodegenerative diseases. MLB held/holds scholarships from the Research Centre on Aging, the Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences of the University of Sherbrooke, the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR) and Fonds de Recherche du Québec–Santé (FRQ-S). This work was supported in part by a grant from the Canadian Institute for Health Research (CIHR; to GG) and an investigator award from the Fonds de Recherche du Québec–Santé (FRQS; to GG and JBD).

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  1. Research Centre on Aging, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada

    Mélissa Lessard-Beaudoin, Mélissa Laroche, Marie-Josée Demers & Rona K. Graham

  2. Department of Pharmacology and Physiology, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, 3001 12e Avenue Nord, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada

    Mélissa Lessard-Beaudoin, Mélissa Laroche, Marie-Josée Demers, Catherine Duclos, Jean-Bernard Denault & Rona K. Graham

  3. Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada

    Guillaume Grenier

  4. CHUS Research Centre, Faculty of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1H 5N4, Canada

    Guillaume Grenier

  5. Max Delbrück Centrum für Molekulare Medizin, Berlin-Buch, 13125, Berlin, Germany

    Sean-Patrick Riechers & Erich E. Wanker

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Lessard-Beaudoin, M., Laroche, M., Demers, MJ. et al. Age-dependent differential expression of death-associated protein 6 (Daxx) in various peripheral tissues and different brain regions of C57BL/6 male mice. Biogerontology 17, 817–828 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10522-016-9651-y

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