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SUBMITTER: Westerheide SD
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3429349 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Westerheide Sandy D SD Anckar Julius J Stevens Stanley M SM Sistonen Lea L Morimoto Richard I RI
Science (New York, N.Y.) 20090201 5917
Heat shock factor 1 (HSF1) is essential for protecting cells from protein-damaging stress associated with misfolded proteins and regulates the insulin-signaling pathway and aging. Here, we show that human HSF1 is inducibly acetylated at a critical residue that negatively regulates DNA binding activity. Activation of the deacetylase and longevity factor SIRT1 prolonged HSF1 binding to the heat shock promoter Hsp70 by maintaining HSF1 in a deacetylated, DNA-binding competent state. Conversely, dow ...[more]