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Identifying the functional contribution of the defatty-acylase activity of SIRT6

  • Nat Chem Biol. 2016 Aug;12(8):614-20. doi: 10.1038/nchembio.2106.
Xiaoyu Zhang 1,  Saba Khan 1,  Hong Jiang 1,  Marc A Antonyak 2,  Xiao Chen 1,  Nicole A Spiegelman 1,  Jonathan H Shrimp 1,  Richard A Cerione 1 2,  Hening Lin 1 3
Affiliations

Affiliations

  • 1 Department of Chemistry and Chemical Biology, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
  • 2 Department of Molecular Medicine, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
  • 3 Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA.
PMID: 27322069 DOI: 10.1038/nchembio.2106
Abstract

Mammalian Sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) exhibits many pivotal functions and multiple enzymatic activities, but the contribution of each activity to the various functions is unclear. We identified a SIRT6 mutant (G60A) that possesses efficient defatty-acylase activity but has substantially decreased deacetylase activity in vitro and no detectable deacetylase activity in cells. The G60A mutant has a decreased ability to bind NAD(+), but the presence of fatty-acyl lysine Peptides restores NAD(+) binding, explaining the retention of the defatty-acylase activity. Using this mutant, we found that the defatty-acylase activity of SIRT6 regulates the secretion of numerous proteins. Notably, many ribosomal proteins were secreted via exosomes from SIRT6 knockout mouse embryonic fibroblasts, and these exosomes increased NIH 3T3 cell proliferation compared with control exosomes. Our data indicate that distinct activities of SIRT6 regulate different pathways and that the G60A mutant is a useful tool to study the contribution of defatty-acylase activity to SIRT6's various functions.

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