Fig. 5. SIRT6 silencing triggers neurodegenerative disease pathways and normal brain aging.
a Cluster of enriched KEGG pathways obtained using GSEA. Each circle represents an enriched pathway and is colored according to the FDR p value. b Violin plots representing the log2 (Fold Change) expression for genes with the largest contribution to the GSEA enrichment result per neurodegenerative pathway. c Euler diagram showing ten common downregulated genes between publicly available aging brain gene expression datasets (GSE13120 and GSE48911 accessions in the GEO database) and significantly downregulated mitochondrial genes from this study. d Proposed model of the mitochondrial dysfunction caused by SIRT6 silencing and its involvement in neurodegenerative diseases and normal aging. The figure was generated using the BioRender website.