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 …

DNA damage and repair in age-related inflammation

Y Zhao, M Simon, A Seluanov… - Nature Reviews …, 2023 - nature.com
Genomic instability is an important driver of ageing. The accumulation of DNA damage is
believed to contribute to ageing by inducing cell death, senescence and tissue dysfunction …

From NAFLD to MAFLD: implications of a premature change in terminology

ZM Younossi, ME Rinella, AJ Sanyal, SA Harrison… - …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Despite the substantial gains in our understanding of NAFLD/NASH over the past 2
decades, there has been some dissatisfaction with the terminology “non‐alcoholic” which …

The roles of histone deacetylases and their inhibitors in cancer therapy

G Li, Y Tian, WG Zhu - Frontiers in cell and developmental biology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Genetic mutations and abnormal gene regulation are key mechanisms underlying
tumorigenesis. Nucleosomes, which consist of DNA wrapped around histone cores …

Sirt6 attenuates chondrocyte senescence and osteoarthritis progression

M Ji, H Jiang, Z Li, R Geng, JZ Hu, YC Lin… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Sirt6 has been implicated as a key regulator in aging-related diseases, including
osteoarthritis. However, its functional role and molecular mechanism in chondrocyte …

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 …

SIRT7: the seventh key to unlocking the mystery of aging

U Raza, X Tang, Z Liu, B Liu - Physiological Reviews, 2024 - journals.physiology.org
Aging is a chronic yet natural physiological decline of the body. Throughout life, humans are
continuously exposed to a variety of exogenous and endogenous stresses, which engender …

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 …

Discovery of cryptic allosteric sites using reversed allosteric communication by a combined computational and experimental strategy

D Ni, J Wei, X He, AU Rehman, X Li, Y Qiu, J Pu… - Chemical …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
Allostery, which is one of the most direct and efficient methods to fine-tune protein functions,
has gained increasing recognition in drug discovery. However, there are several challenges …