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Sirtuins
Nicotinamide mononucleotide
Background
AliasesSIRT
ClassProtein
FunctionsDNA repair, genome stability, cellular senescence

Sirtuins are NAD+- dependent proteins which remove molecular tags from other proteins involved in DNA expression.

Functions of sirtuins in mammals

The functions of sirtuins play key roles in metabolism, inflammation, DNA repair, insulin secretion, and aging. In general, through removing these molecular tags, sirtuins suppress DNA expression, promote chromosome stability and regulate cellular health.

Types of sirtuins in mammals

Mammals have seven different sirtuins. Of these, five sirtuins play a critical function in aging: SIRT1, SIRT2, SIRT3, SIRT6, SIRT7

Sirtuin Activity Function in aging
SIRT1 ADP-ribosyl-transferase

Deacetylase

Lifespan extension

DNA repair Cell cycle arrest Cellular senescence Cell cycle regulation Mitochondrial function Ocidative stress Centenarian-linked SNP

SIRT2 Deacetylase Cell cycle regulation
SIRT3 Deacetylase Mitochondrial function

Oxidative stress Centenarian-linked SNP

SIRT4 ADP-ribosyl-transferase

Deacetylase

Fatty acid oxidation

Apoptosis

SIRT5 Demalonylase

Desuccinylase Deacetylase

Fatty acid oxidation

Oxidative stress

SIRT6 ADP-ribosyl-transferase

Deacetylase

Lifespan extension

DNA repair Genome stability Telomere maintenance

SIRT7 Deacetylase Epigenetic regulation

Stress resistance Apoptosis

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SIRT1

Main article: SIRT1

SIRT1, the most studied of the sirtuins family, could play an important role in aging. Mice with an extra copy of the SIRT1 gene produces higher levels of SIRT1 proteins in cells, resulting in lower levels of DNA damage. These mice also have lower levels of "p16," a protein that serves as a marker of aging.[2] SIRT1 suppresses the activity of genes associated with aging. However, the levels of the protein drops in cells as organisms age, reactivating the aging-related genes.[3] SIRT1 levels also decrease with age in liver cells, mostly due to lower NAD+ availability.[4] DNA damage occurs with falling SIRT1 levels.

SIRT1 plays a pivotal role in early development as well. In mice without SIRT1, only 20% reach maturity.[5] The mice without SIRT1 are sterile, smaller than normal, and develop slower compared to normal mice.[6]

SIRT2

SIRT2 levels may be a marker of obesity. In obese individuals, the levels of the protein drops in fat tissue.[7] In mice undergoing calorie restriction, SIRT2 levels increase in white fat tissue and kidneys.[8]

SIRT3

Evidence suggests that SIRT3 plays a role in human longevity.[9] A particular gene marker in the SIRT3 gene, a polymorphism, is found more often in people who live longer.[10] Mice lacking SIRT3 have decreased oxygen consumption and increased markers of cellular stress, reactive oxygen species.[11]

SIRT6

Research using mice lacking SIRT6 provide the first evidence that sirtuins are involved in regulating mammalian aging. With reduced levels of SIRT6, mice fail to reach a normal lifespan.[12] Three weeks after birth, these mice exhibit premature aging and degeneration, which results in death around the fourth week of life.[13] Mice without SIRT6 are also smaller than ‘normal’ individuals.

SIRT7

Mice lacking SIRT7 age prematurely and have heart complications, lethal heart hypertrophy.[14]

Research

Aging

Research on aging indicates sirtuins are essential factors for delaying cell deterioration with age, cellular senescence. Scientists consider cellular senescence as a beneficial process to inhibit the accumulation of abnormal cells in young organisms. Stress causes this accumulation. Such an accumulation of abnormal cells is detrimental to older organisms and thought to induce age-related diseases. Additionally, senescent cells increase with aging <refr>(Krtolica and Campisi, 2002; Lee et al., 2019)</ref>.

Two Sirtuins have been investigated in mammals with protective effects from senescence in mammals, SIRT1 and SIRT6. Levels of these two Sirtuins are reported to decrease in senescent cell lines of mice [15]. Reducing SIRT1 and SIRT6 using molecular inhibitors of their function, siRNA or miRNA, promotes early senescence characteristics in the interior of blood vessels, endothelial cells [16]. Increasing SIRT1 and SIRT6 gene expression through over-expression suppresses cellular senescence [17]. Altogether, this research indicates Sirtuins play significant roles in cellular senescence.

Suppression of cellular senescence with Sirtuins stems from preventing telomere degradation and promoting DNA damage repair, two key processes in maintaining DNA integrity. For example, SIRT1 and SIRT6 have known roles in regulating telomere reverse transcriptase expression, an enzyme necessary for telomere elongation [18]. Telomere elongation is necessary to avoid premature cellular senescence. SIRT1 and SIRT6 also remove acetyl groups, deacetylate, from proteins called ‘histones.’ DNA wraps around ‘histones,’ a process necessary for DNA stability. Through deacetylating histones, histone 3 lysine 9 and histone 3 lysine 56, integrity of telomeres increases along with general DNA integrity [19]. Additionally, research indicates SIRT1 and SIRT6 are recruited to damaged DNA sites. SIRT1 and SIRT6 then promote DNA repair through deacetylation of repair proteins such as poly (ADP-ribose) polymerase (PARP)-1, Ku70, NBS, and Werner (WRN) helicase [20].

In addition to roles in maintaining DNA integrity and repairing damaged sites of DNA thus preventing cellular senescence, research indicates Sirtuins regulate lifespan in several animals. Increased levels of the Sirtuin gene, SIR2, in yeast extends its lifespan. The same gene in other animals, homologues, extends lifespan in roundworms, fruit flies, and mice, also [21]. The first study of the longevity enhancing effects of SIR2 occurred approximately 20 years ago in yeast [22]. Follow-up investigations examined effects of increasing expression of Sir2 in other organisms. For example, increasing sir2.1 expression levels 7-fold in roundworms extended the lifespan of the worms by 14.8-50.5% [23]. Furthermore, a mutation resulting in reduced expression of the sir2.1 gene resulted in decreased lifespan of roundworms. In fruit flies, inducing increased expression, over-expressing, the dSir2 gene in neuronal cells or fat cells extended lifespan approximately 52% and 32.2%, respectively [24]. Mice over-expressing SIRT1 in the brain, the hypothalamus more specifically, had an increased median lifespan of 16% in females and 9% in males [25].

Dietary activators of sirtuins

Dietary ingredients, functional foods, and nutraceuticals provide great hope for promoting health span and longevity, along with preventing age-related diseases [26]. Sirtuin-activating compounds derived from plants include flavones, stilbenes, chalcones, and anthocyanidins, which can directly activate SIRT1 [27]. Other agents reported to have anti-aging effects through modulating the SIRT1 cellular pathway include resveratrol [28], cilostazol [29], paeonol [30], statins [31], hydrogen sulfide [32] and persimmon [33]. Polyphenols, including curcumin, can also modulate sirtuins [34]. The most well-described and recognized natural compound stimulating SIRT1 is resveratrol. Activating SIRT1 with resveratrol supplementation increases lifespan and improves healthspan of several species [35]. Natural anti-aging compounds also include quercetin, butein, fisetin, kaempferol, catechins, and proanthocyanidins [36]. Some Traditional Chinese Medicines have natural compounds with potent SIRT1-activating effects [37]. Activating sirtuins through the regulation of NAD+ levels offers an alternative method of stimulating sirtuin function.

Functional food is a promising method for anti-aging interventions. Modulating SIRT1 function through consumption of these foods and dietary ingredients could represent a new way of counteracting the effects of aging.

Further reading

  1. Shin-Hae Lee, Ji-Hyeon Lee, Hye-Yeon Lee, Kyung-Jin Min.  Sirtuin signaling in cellular senescence and aging.  BMB Rep, 2019; DOI: 10.5483/BMBRep.2019.52.1.290.
  2. Wioleta Grabowska, Ewa Sikora, Anna Bielak-Zmijewska.  Sirtuins, a promising target in slowing down the ageing process.  Biogerontology, 2017; DOI: 10.1007/s10522-017-9685-9. Daniel Herranz, Marta Canamero, Francisca Mulero, Barbara Martinez-Pastor, Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo, Manuel Serrano.  Sirt1 improves healthy ageing and protects from metabolic syndrome-associated cancer syndrome.  Nat Commun, 2010; DOI: 10.1038/ncomms1001.
  3. Wioleta Grabowska, Ewa Sikora, Anna Bielak-Zmijewska.  Sirtuins, a promising target in slowing down the ageing process.  Biogerontology, 2017; DOI: 10.1007/s10522-017-9685-9. Jaw-woong Hwang, Hongwei Yao, Samuel Caito, Isaac K. Sundar, Irfan Rahman.  Redox regulation of SIRT1 in inflammation and cellular senescence.  Free Radic Biol Med, 2013; DOI: 10.1016/j.freerradbiomed.2013.03.015.
  4. Nady Braidy, Gilles J. Guillemin, Hussein Mansour, Tailoi Chan-Ling, Anne Poljak, Ross Grant.  Age related changes in NAD+ metabolism oxidative stress and Sirt1 activity in wistar rats.  PLoS One, 2011; DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0019194.
  5. Wioleta Grabowska, Ewa Sikora, Anna Bielak-Zmijewska.  Sirtuins, a promising target in slowing down the ageing process.  Biogerontology, 2017; DOI: 10.1007/s10522-017-9685-9.
  6. Hwei-Ling Cheng, Raul Mostoslavsky, Shin’ichi Saito, John P. Manis, Yansong Gu, Parin Patel, Roderick Bronson, Ettore Appella, Frederick W. Alt, Katrin F. Chua.  Developmental defects and p53 hyperacetylation in Sir2 homolog (SIRT1)-deficient mice.  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2003; DOI: 10.1073/pna.1934713100. Wioleta Grabowska, Ewa Sikora, Anna Bielak-Zmijewska.  Sirtuins, a promising target in slowing down the ageing process.  Biogerontology, 2017; DOI: 10.1007/s10522-017-9685-9. Michael W. McBurney, Xiaofeng Yang, Karen Jardine, Mary Hixon, Kim Boekelheide, John R. Webb, Peter M. Lansdorp, Madeleine Lemieux.  The mammalian SIR2α protein has a role in embryogenesis and gametogenesis.  Mol Cell Biol, 2003; DOI: 10.1128/MCB.23.1.38-54.2003.
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