Current advances in the synthesis and antitumoral activity of SIRT1-2 inhibitors by modulation of p53 and pro-apoptotic proteins

G Botta, LP De Santis… - Current medicinal …, 2012 - ingentaconnect.com
Four different classes of HDACs have been identified in humans so far. Classes I, II and IV
are zinc-dependent amidohydrolases, while III is a family of phylogenetically conserved …

Loss of SIRT1 histone deacetylase expression associates with tumour progression in colorectal adenocarcinoma

SH Jang, KW Min, SS Paik, KS Jang - Journal of clinical pathology, 2012 - jcp.bmj.com
Background The class III histone deacetylase SIRT1 is a nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide
(NAD+)-dependent deacetylase, and has been reported to serve diverse roles in various …

Downregulation of SIRT4 expression is associated with poor prognosis in esophageal squamous cell carcinoma

Y Nakahara, M Yamasaki, G Sawada, Y Miyazaki… - Oncology, 2016 - karger.com
Objective: SIRT4, a mitochondria-localized sirtuin, represses glutamine metabolism by
inhibiting glutamate dehydrogenase (GDH). The current study aimed to evaluate the clinical …

A SIRT2-selective inhibitor promotes c-Myc oncoprotein degradation and exhibits broad anticancer activity

H Jing, J Hu, B He, YLN Abril, J Stupinski, K Weiser… - Cancer cell, 2016 - cell.com
Targeting sirtuins for cancer treatment has been a topic of debate due to conflicting reports
and lack of potent and specific inhibitors. We have developed a thiomyristoyl lysine …

[HTML][HTML] The role of sirtuin 1 (SIRT1) in neurodegeneration

DI Razick, M Akhtar, J Wen, M Alam, N Dean… - Cureus, 2023 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sirtuins (SIRT) are a class of histone deacetylases that regulate important metabolic
pathways and play a role in several disease processes. Of the seven mammalian homologs …

Identification of and molecular basis for SIRT6 loss-of-function point mutations in cancer

S Kugel, JL Feldman, MA Klein, DM Silberman… - Cell reports, 2015 - cell.com
Chromatin factors have emerged as the most frequently dysregulated family of proteins in
cancer. We have previously identified the histone deacetylase SIRT6 as a key tumor …

Overexpression of SIRT1 is associated with poor outcomes in patients with ovarian carcinoma

DH Mvunta, T Miyamoto, R Asaka… - Applied …, 2017 - journals.lww.com
Abstract Sirtuin 1 (SIRT1), originally identified as a longevity gene, regulates DNA repair and
metabolism by deacetylating target proteins such as p53. SIRT1 plays a key role in the …

SIRT6 depletion suppresses tumor growth by promoting cellular senescence induced by DNA damage in HCC

N Lee, HG Ryu, JH Kwon, DK Kim, SR Kim, HJ Wang… - PLoS …, 2016 - journals.plos.org
The role of Sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) as a tumor suppressor or oncogene in liver cancer remains
controversial. Thus, we identified the specific role of SIRT6 in the progression of …

[HTML][HTML] SirT1 brings stemness closer to cancer and aging

V Calvanese, MF Fraga - Aging (Albany NY), 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Sirtuin 1 acts in various cell processes, deacetylating both chromatin and non-histone
proteins, and its role in cancer and aging has long been studied and debated. Here we …

[HTML][HTML] Silencing Sirtuin 6 induces cell cycle arrest and apoptosis in non-small cell lung cancer cell lines

V Krishnamoorthy, R Vilwanathan - Genomics, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Sirtuins (SIRT1–7), are NAD-dependent deacetylases and ADP-ribosyl
transferases, plays a major part in carcinogenesis. The previous report suggests that in …