Accumulation of insoluble (i.e., aggregated, cross-linked) protein is proposed to be a major cause of aging of the budding yeast cell Saccharomyces cerevisiae. This may give rise to the Lansing effect—precocious aging of parthenogenetically propagated daughters from old mothers—and to the genomic instability observed in old cells.
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