A phylogenetically conserved NAD+-dependent protein deacetylase activity in the Sir2 protein family.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
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Key findings
Sir2 protein family has phylogenetically conserved NAD+-dependent histone deacetylase activity; NAD+ synthesis (NPT1) required for silencing.
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- Sample size
- Not applicable (molecular/biochemical study)
- Population
- Yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), Archaeal, eubacterial, and human proteins (in vitro/molecular study)
- Dosing
- Not applicable
- Duration
- Not reported
- Route
- Not applicable
- Blinding
- not_reported
- Controls
- none
- Drug class
- coenzyme
Full abstract
The yeast Sir2 protein, required for transcriptional silencing, has an NAD(+)-dependent histone deacetylase (HDA) activity. Yeast extracts contain a NAD(+)-dependent HDA activity that is eliminated in a yeast strain from which SIR2 and its four homologs have been deleted. This HDA activity is also displayed by purified yeast Sir2p and homologous Archaeal, eubacterial, and human proteins, and depends completely on NAD(+) in all species tested. The yeast NPT1 gene, encoding an important NAD(+) synthesis enzyme, is required for rDNA and telomeric silencing and contributes to silencing of the HM loci. Null mutants in this gene have significantly reduced intracellular NAD(+) concentrations and have phenotypes similar to sir2 null mutants. Surprisingly, yeast from which all five SIR2 homologs have been deleted have relatively normal bulk histone acetylation levels. The evolutionary conservation of this regulated activity suggests that the Sir2 protein family represents a set of effector proteins in an evolutionarily conserved signal transduction pathway that monitors cellular energy and redox states.