Mammalian Sirt1: insights on its biological functions

Sirt1 (member of the sirtuin family) is a nicotinamide adenosine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent deacetylase that removes acetyl groups from various proteins. Sirt1 performs a wide variety of functions in biological systems. The current review focuses on the biological functions of Sirt1 in obesity-ass...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Rahman, Shahedur, Islam, Rezuanul
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2011
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Review
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3103488/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21549004
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1478-811X-9-11
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Sumario:Sirt1 (member of the sirtuin family) is a nicotinamide adenosine dinucleotide (NAD)-dependent deacetylase that removes acetyl groups from various proteins. Sirt1 performs a wide variety of functions in biological systems. The current review focuses on the biological functions of Sirt1 in obesity-associated metabolic diseases, cancer, adipose tissue, aging, cellular senescence, cardiac aging and stress, prion-mediated neurodegeneration, inflammatory signaling in response to environmental stress, development and placental cell survival.

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