Research Paper Volume 10, Issue 8 pp 2037—2050

The long non-coding RNA FLJ46906 binds to the transcription factors NF-κB and AP-1 and regulates expression of aging-associated genes

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Figure 1. Expression of the lncRNA FLJ46906 increases with aging in fibroblasts. (A) The expression of FLJ46906 in fibroblasts from older donors (63, 68, and 70 years old, aged in-vivo), as measured by qPCR, is 2.8 fold higher than in fibroblasts from young donors (18, 23, and 27 years old; n = 3 (triplicate samples from each donor), mean ± SD, *p < 0.05). (B) Neonatal fibroblasts aged in-vitro by longterm culture show increasing expression of FLJ46906 with increasing population doublings (PD), as measured by qPCR (n = 3 (cells from triplicate tissue culture dishes), mean ± SD, *p < 0.05, **p < 0.01).