A Genome-Wide Screen with Nicotinamide to Identify Sirtuin-Dependent Pathways in Saccharomyces cerevisiae

Sirtuins are evolutionarily conserved NAD-dependent deacetylases that catalyze the cleavage of NAD+ into nicotinamide (NAM), which can act as a pan-sirtuin inhibitor in unicellular and multicellular organisms. Sirtuins regulate processes such as transcription, DNA damage repair, chromosome segregati...

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Main Authors: John S. Choy, Bayan Qadri, Leah Henry, Kunal Shroff, Olatomiwa Bifarin, Munira A. Basrai
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Oxford University Press 2016-02-01
Series:G3: Genes, Genomes, Genetics
Online Access:http://g3journal.org/lookup/doi/10.1534/g3.115.022244