The human sirtuin family: Evolutionary divergences and functions

Human Genomics

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 485-496

  Vassilopoulos, Athanassios ^a   Fritz, Kristofer S ^b   Petersen, Dennis R ^b   Gius, David ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Evolution; Histone deacetylases; Human diseases; Metabolism; Sirtuins

Indexed keywords

NICOTINAMIDE ADENINE DINUCLEOTIDE; SIRTUIN;

ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; ENZYME ACTIVE SITE; GENETICS; HUMAN; LONGEVITY; METABOLISM; MOLECULAR EVOLUTION; NEOPLASM; PHYLOGENY; PHYSIOLOGY;

CATALYTIC DOMAIN; EVOLUTION, MOLECULAR; HUMANS; LONGEVITY; NAD; NEOPLASMS; PHYLOGENY; SIRTUINS;

EID: 81855170577     PISSN: 14739542     EISSN: 14797364     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1479-7364-5-5-485     Document Type: Article

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