Figure 10.The young and old Ames dwarf fibroblasts show an attenuated phosphorylation of p38 MAPK catalytic site in response to antimycin A. The bar graphs
and western blot analyses below each bar graph show the pool levels and the
levels of phosphory-lation of the p38 MAPK catalytic site amino acid
residues (P-Thr180/P-Tyr182) in (A) young
wild-type and dwarf fibroblasts (4-6 mos) and (B) old wild-type and
dwarf fibroblasts (21-24 mos) after treatment with 50 μM AA. The fibroblasts from
young dwarf mice show an attenuated response
to the AA-mediated phosphorylation of the catalytic site. The fibroblasts
from young and old dwarf mice show similar levels of resistance to
AA suggesting that resistance to CIII generated ROS does not change with
age in these fibroblasts. n=3, *p<0.05 between wild-type vs.
dwarf.