Sirtuins & disease: the road ahead
Sirtuins represent a promising new class of conserved histone deacetylases, originally identified in yeast. The activity of the sirtuin (SirT) family – made up of seven members (SirT1-7) – is NAD+ dependent. Sirtuins target a wide range of cellular proteins in nucleus, cytoplasm and mitochondria for...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Frontiers Media S.A.
2012-01-01
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| Series: | Frontiers in Pharmacology |
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| Online Access: | http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fphar.2012.00004/full |