The sirtuin family in health and disease

QJ Wu, TN Zhang, HH Chen, XF Yu, JL Lv… - … and Targeted Therapy, 2022 - nature.com
Sirtuins (SIRTs) are nicotine adenine dinucleotide (+)-dependent histone deacetylases
regulating critical signaling pathways in prokaryotes and eukaryotes, and are involved in …

Sirtuin activators and inhibitors: Promises, achievements, and challenges

H Dai, DA Sinclair, JL Ellis, C Steegborn - Pharmacology & therapeutics, 2018 - Elsevier
The NAD+-dependent protein lysine deacylases of the Sirtuin family regulate various
physiological functions, from energy metabolism to stress responses. The human Sirtuin …

Lysine acetylation goes global: from epigenetics to metabolism and therapeutics

I Ali, RJ Conrad, E Verdin, M Ott - Chemical reviews, 2018 - ACS Publications
Post-translational acetylation of lysine residues has emerged as a key regulatory
mechanism in all eukaryotic organisms. Originally discovered in 1963 as a unique …

Identification of a cellularly active SIRT6 allosteric activator

Z Huang, J Zhao, W Deng, Y Chen, J Shang… - Nature chemical …, 2018 - nature.com
SIRT6, a member of the SIRT deacetylase family, is responsible for deacetylation of histone
H3 N ε-acetyl-lysines 9 (H3K9ac) and 56 (H3K56ac). As a tumor suppressor, SIRT6 has …

Sirtuins in atherosclerosis: guardians of healthspan and therapeutic targets

MOJ Grootaert, MR Bennett - Nature Reviews Cardiology, 2022 - nature.com
Sirtuins are NAD+-dependent deacetylase and deacylase enzymes that control important
cellular processes, including DNA damage repair, cellular metabolism, mitochondrial …

Understanding the function of mammalian sirtuins and protein lysine acylation

M Wang, H Lin - Annual Review of Biochemistry, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Protein lysine acetylation is an important posttranslational modification that regulates
numerous biological processes. Targeting lysine acetylation regulatory factors, such as …

SIRT6, a mammalian deacylase with multitasking abilities

AR Chang, CM Ferrer… - Physiological …, 2020 - journals.physiology.org
Mammalian sirtuins have emerged in recent years as critical modulators of multiple
biological processes, regulating cellular metabolism, DNA repair, gene expression, and …

An overview of Sirtuins as potential therapeutic target: Structure, function and modulators

Y Wang, J He, M Liao, M Hu, W Li, H Ouyang… - European journal of …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract Sirtuin (Yeast Silent Information RegulatorsⅡ, Sir2) was first discovered in the
1970s. Because of its function by removing acetylated groups from histones in the presence …

Emerging roles of SIRT6 in human diseases and its modulators

G Liu, H Chen, H Liu, W Zhang… - Medicinal research …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
The biological functions of sirtuin 6 (SIRT6; eg, deacetylation, defatty‐acylation, and mono‐
ADP‐ribosylation) play a pivotal role in regulating lifespan and several fundamental …

SIRT6 is a DNA double-strand break sensor

L Onn, M Portillo, S Ilic, G Cleitman, D Stein, S Kaluski… - Elife, 2020 - elifesciences.org
DNA double-strand breaks (DSB) are the most deleterious type of DNA damage. In this
work, we show that SIRT6 directly recognizes DNA damage through a tunnel-like structure …