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SUBMITTER: Onyango P
PROVIDER: S-EPMC129731 | biostudies-literature | 2002 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Onyango Patrick P Celic Ivana I McCaffery J Michael JM Boeke Jef D JD Feinberg Andrew P AP
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20021008 21
The SIR2 (silent information regulator 2) gene family has diverse functions in yeast including gene silencing, DNA repair, cell-cycle progression, and chromosome fidelity in meiosis and aging. Human homologues, termed sirtuins, are highly conserved but are of unknown function. We previously identified a large imprinted gene domain on 11p15.5 and investigated the 11p15.5 sirtuin SIRT3. Although this gene was not imprinted, we found that it is localized to mitochondria, with a mitochondrial target ...[more]