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McBurney, M.W. et al.

McBurney, Yang, Jardine, Bieman, Th'ng, Lemieux,

The absence of SIR2alpha protein has no effect on global gene silencing in mouse embryonic stem cells.

The yeast sir2 gene plays a central role in mediating gene silencing and DNA repair in this organism. The mouse sir2alpha gene is closely related to its yeast homologue and encodes a nuclear protein expressed at particularly high levels in embryonic stem (ES) cells. We used homologous recombination to create ES cells null for sir2alpha and found that these cells did not have elevated levels of acetylated histones and did not ectopically express silent genes. Unlike yeast sir2 mutants, our sir2alpha null ES cells had normal sensitivity to insults such as ionizing radiation and heat shock, and they were able to silence invading retroviruses normally. These sir2alpha null cells were able to differentiate in culture normally. Our results failed to provide evidence that the mammalian SIR2alpha protein plays a role in gene silencing and suggest that the physiological substrate(s) for the SIR2alpha deacetylase may be nuclear proteins other than histones.[1]

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The absence of SIR2alpha protein has no effect on global gene silencing in mouse embryonic stem cells. McBurney, M.W., Yang, X., Jardine, K., Bieman, M., Th'ng, J., Lemieux, M. Mol. Cancer Res. (2003) [Pubmed]

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