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Sirtuins in yeast: phenotypes and tools.
Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.) - 1 Jan 2013
Tsuchiyama Scott, Kwan Elizabeth, Dang Weiwei, Bedalov Antonio, Kennedy Brian K
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Originally discovered as a transcriptional silencing protein, SIR2 was later linked to yeast replicative aging and the rest was history. Sir2p is now known to be a member of a class of protein deacetylases with a unique enzymatic activity coupling the deacetylation event to NAD(+) hydrolysis. While still incompletely understood, the mechanism by which Sir2p modulates yeast aging is linked to inhibition of rDNA...
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