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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jan 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Biochem Sci. 2010 Aug 21;36(1):39–46. doi: 10.1016/j.tibs.2010.07.009

Figure 3.

Figure 3

From orphan enzyme to site-specific deacetylase. By deacetylating lysines 9 and 56 on histone H3, SIRT6 modulates chromatin structure to regulate telomere integrity, DNA repair, and gene expression, thus impacting on processes important for cancer, metabolism, and aging.