Abstract
Reactive oxygen species (ROS), generated as by-products of aerobic metabolism, cause damage to proteins and cellular membranes, and are thus thought to influence senescence. Caenorhabditis elegans fed on diets lacking in ubiquinone coenzyme Q (CoQ), a coenzyme in the oxidative phosphorylation pathway, show increased longevity, possibly because of reduced ROS generation. We test the role of dietary CoQ in determining Drosophila melanogaster longevity by measuring survival and cytochrome c-oxidase activity (a proxy for aerobic metabolic performance) in flies fed wild-type yeast, CoQ-less yeast, or respiratory control (RC) yeast replete with CoQ but independently deficient in mitochondrial respiration. We find no evidence that dietary manipulation of CoQ in D. melanogaster increases life span or decreases age-dependent decline in cytochrome c oxidase activity. Instead, we find evidence that flies fed a diet of respiratory-deficient yeast (CoQ-less or RC) tend to have decreased longevity and increased rates of decline in cytochrome c-oxidase activity [corrected]
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