Figure 2.
SIRT4 structure and enzymatic mechanism. (A) The structure of SIRT4, as recently solved by Pannek et al. (2017). The structure revealed a SIRT4-specific channel (left) and SIRT4-loop (right, shown in yellow). (B) SIRT4 catalyzes the deacylation of its substrates using NAD+ as a cofactor, releasing nicotinamide (NAM) and resulting in the formation of an 2’-O-acyl-ADPR molecule and deacylated substrate.
