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Reduction of DNA Topoisomerase Top2 reprograms the epigenetic landscape and extends health and life span across species

GSE278873 Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) RNA-seq (gene expression) 32 samples Submitted 2024/10/10 Platform GPL25145Platform GPL23479
At a glance

RNA-seq (gene expression) · C. elegans · 32 samples

What it is
RNA-seq (gene expression)Gene activity measured by sequencing. The summary does not mention single-cell work, so this is most likely bulk: one average per sample, the usual starting point for comparing groups.
Organism
Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans)
Samples
32 samples: 8 conditions, mostly with about 4 replicates eachGroups are read from the sample names, not from the paper. Check the list below.
Data you can get
A processed table (series matrix) and supplementary files from NCBI; the raw sequencing reads from ENA. Which of these hold counts depends on the study, so check the file list.
Paper
Reduction of DNA Topoisomerase Top2 Reprograms the Epigenetic Landscape and Extends Health and Life Span Across SpeciesAging cell · 2025
Summary (written by the submitters)
DNA topoisomerases are essential molecular machines that manage DNA topology in the cell and play important roles in DNA replication and transcription. We find that knocking down the enzyme Topoisomerase IIβ (Top2b) increases the lifespan of S. cerevisiae, C. elegans, and mice. TOP2B reduction also extends the health span of mice and alleviates the characteristics and pathologies of aging in multiple tissues.
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At the cellular/molecular level, TOP2 reduction attenates the major hallmarks of aging, such as cellular senescence, deregulated nutrient-sensing, epigenetic alterations, and lysosomal biogenesis. We observed that TOP2 reduction significantly alters the epigenetic landscape in various mouse tissues toward those of the young animals, and differentially down-regulates genes with active promoter and high expression. Our observations suggest that TOP2 reduction confers longevity effect across species via a conserved mechanism, and may be used as a novel therapeutic strategy for countering aging.
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Reduction of DNA Topoisomerase Top2 Reprograms the Epigenetic Landscape and Extends Health and Life Span Across Species
Zhu M, Ma M, Luo L et al. · Aging cell 2025 · PMID 39935344 · doi:10.1111/acel.70010
This dataset
Download · which file do I need?

Direct links to NCBI and ENA, no account and no request form. Pick by what you want to do: take the small processed table to look, the supplementary files to re-analyse, or the original raw data to start over.

1 · Just have a look

Processed table

The series matrix: one table of values per sample as the submitters processed it. The smallest download, and it opens in Excel or R. Start here to see what the data look like.

2 · Re-analyse it

Supplementary files

The count tables and other files the authors uploaded. Take only the samples you need, or the whole study as GSE278873_RAW.tar (it can run to tens of gigabytes).

3 · Start from the raw reads

Raw sequencing reads

The original FASTQ files, straight from the sequencer, held at ENA. Large, and you align them yourself, so only choose this if you need to re-process the study from scratch.

What the files usually look like: For RNA-seq the counts are usually a table among the supplementary files (look for 'counts', 'expression', 'FPKM' or 'TPM' in the file name). The series matrix of a sequencing study is sometimes nearly empty.

Also filed as BioProject PRJNA1169340 and SRA study SRP536780. Searching any of these in the dataset finder brings you back here.

Study design
8 conditions, mostly with about 4 replicates each
0% top2 RNAi ×4 50% top2 RNAi ×4 Ske_gLacz ×4 Ske_gtop2b ×4 Lung_gLacz ×4 Lung_gtop2b ×4 Kidney_gLacz ×4 Kidney_gtop2b ×4

Supports a between-group comparison across 32 samples.

How we read this: 8 replicated groups read from 32 sample titles; they account for 32 of them. These groups are guessed from the sample names, not taken from the paper, so check them against the sample list below before relying on them.

Samples in this study
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