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Recent progress in the biology and physiology of sirtuins

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  • Toren Finkel

    (Translational Medicine Branch, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute,)

  • Chu-Xia Deng

    (Genetics of Development and Disease Branch, National Institute of Diabetes, Digestive and Kidney Diseases, US National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, Maryland 20892, USA)

  • Raul Mostoslavsky

    (The Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02114, USA)

Abstract

That sirtuin something Since the discovery that the life extending benefits of caloric restriction in yeast require Sir2, a protein originally isolated in a screen for gene silencing factors (and called silent information regulator 2), there has been considerable interest in the family of proteins collectively known as the sirtuins. This week Toren Finkel, Chu-Xia Deng and Raul Mostoslavsky review recent advances in sirtuin biology. These NAD-dependent enzymes have been implicated in a wide array of cell-fate decisions, in maintaining genomic stability and regulating overall energy metabolism. Increasing evidence also implicates the sirtuins in the progression of a number of disease states ranging from diabetes to cancer. These observations, coupled with the recent progress in the rationale design of small molecule sirtuin activators, raise the possibility of new therapies targeted to a host of age-related diseases, as well as potential pharmacological strategies to slow mammalian ageing.

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  • Toren Finkel & Chu-Xia Deng & Raul Mostoslavsky, 2009. "Recent progress in the biology and physiology of sirtuins," Nature, Nature, vol. 460(7255), pages 587-591, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:460:y:2009:i:7255:d:10.1038_nature08197
    DOI: 10.1038/nature08197
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    1. Fei-Yuan Yu & Qian Xu & Dan-Dan Wu & Andy T Y Lau & Yan-Ming Xu, 2016. "The Prognostic and Clinicopathological Roles of Sirtuin-3 in Various Cancers," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 11(8), pages 1-12, August.
    2. Priya Kapoor-Vazirani & Sandip K. Rath & Xu Liu & Zhen Shu & Nicole E. Bowen & Yitong Chen & Ramona Haji-Seyed-Javadi & Waaqo Daddacha & Elizabeth V. Minten & Diana Danelia & Daniela Farchi & Duc M. D, 2022. "SAMHD1 deacetylation by SIRT1 promotes DNA end resection by facilitating DNA binding at double-strand breaks," Nature Communications, Nature, vol. 13(1), pages 1-18, December.

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