Pathway link SESN2-AGING

Sestrin2 ⊣ Age-related pathology

Sestrin2 inhibits Age-related pathology.

The only case in this atlas linking a nutrient sensor to ageing of a whole animal: fruit flies without this sensor build up fat and develop muscle and heart problems, and blocking this pathway or switching on AMPK prevents it. So the sensor holds age-related damage back. Watch what was measured – how sick the flies got, not how long they lived.

Losing Drosophila Sestrin produces fat accumulation, mitochondrial dysfunction, muscle degeneration and cardiac malfunction, all prevented by inhibiting TOR or activating AMPK. Sestrin therefore limits age-associated pathology in the fly.

The conditions it holds under

Fly only, and the readout is age-related pathology: survival was never measured. No mammalian sensor-to-ageing evidence exists in this corpus.

Time it takes

long exposure (days to weeks)

Step

indirect (through steps not drawn here)

Measured in

fly

Reaches people?

not tested in people

How settled

emerging, few independent studies

Studies behind it

Points the other way

No study in the Atlas contradicts this link. That means none in this curated set, not none in the literature.

Who has checked this

Checked by

No researcher outside the project has checked this link yet.

Curator sign-off

Not signed off yet. This link was drafted with AI help and has not been reviewed link by link; treat it as a proposal until it is.

Curated by

Oliver Barton, with AI help for drafting; see how links are checked.

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