Linking DNA damage, NAD(+)/SIRT1, and aging.

Guarente, Leonard · Cell Metab · 2014

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Abstract

Diseases due to DNA damage repair machinery defects can resemble premature aging. In this issue of Cell Metabolism, Scheibye-Knudsen et al. (2014) demonstrate that increasing NAD(+) levels may reverse the inactivation of Sirt1 and mitochondrial defects in Cockayne Syndrome B that stem from nuclear NAD(+) depletion by the DNA repair protein PARP.

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