Transcriptional silencing and longevity protein Sir2 is an NAD-dependent histone deacetylase

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Potent and specific inhibition of mammalian histone deacetylase both in vivo and in vitro by trichostatin A.

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Histone Modifications, Molecular Biology, Epigenetics +20

A Mammalian Histone Deacetylase Related to the Yeast Transcriptional Regulator Rpd3p

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Extrachromosomal rDNA Circles— A Cause of Aging in Yeast

David Sinclair, Leonard Guarente · Cell · 1997 · 1.5K citations · Full text

Chromatin, Genome Instability, Chromosome Dynamics +10

Position effect at S. cerevisiae telomeres: Reversible repression of Pol II transcription

Daniel E. Gottschling, Oscar M. Aparicio, Barbara Billington et al. · Cell · 1990 · 1.3K citations

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