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Identification of a small molecule inhibitor of Sir2p.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America - 18 Dec 2001
Bedalov A, Gatbonton T, Irvine W P, Gottschling D E, Simon J A
Abstract excerpt
Sir2p is an NAD(+)-dependent histone deacetylase required for chromatin-dependent silencing in yeast. In a cell-based screen for inhibitors of Sir2p, we identified a compound, splitomicin, that creates a conditional phenocopy of a sir2 deletion mutant in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Cells grown in the presence of the drug have silencing defects at telomeres, silent mating-type loci, and the ribosomal DNA. In...
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