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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2013 Aug 16.
Published in final edited form as: Handb Exp Pharmacol. 2011;206:125–162. doi: 10.1007/978-3-642-21631-2_7

Fig. 1.

Fig. 1

The deacetylation reaction of sirtuins. Upon the binding of both an acetylated lysine substrate and NAD, sirtuins cleave the glycosidic bond separating NAD into its nicotinamide and ribose moieties, producing nicotinamide, 2′-O-acetyl-ADP-ribose, and a deacetylated substrate