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Sirtuin on a high-fat diet

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It emerges that the sirtuin enzyme SIRT6 preferentially removes long-chain fatty-acyl, rather than acetyl, protein modifications. This activity regulates secretion of the inflammation-associated protein TNF-α. See Letter p.110

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Figure 1: Protein deacylation.

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  1. Poonam Bheda is at the Institut Génétique et de Biologie Moleculaire et Cellulaire, Illkirch 67404, France.,

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  2. Cynthia Wolberger is in the Department of Biophysics and Biophysical Chemistry and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21205-2185, USA.,

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