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Review
. 2021 Apr 17;22(8):4180.
doi: 10.3390/ijms22084180.

A Comprehensive Analysis into the Therapeutic Application of Natural Products as SIRT6 Modulators in Alzheimer's Disease, Aging, Cancer, Inflammation, and Diabetes

Raushanara Akter  1 , Afrina Afrose  1 , Md Rashidur Rahman  2 , Rakhi Chowdhury  1 , Saif Shahriar Rahman Nirzhor  3 , Rubayat Islam Khan  4 , Md Tanvir Kabir  1
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A Comprehensive Analysis into the Therapeutic Application of Natural Products as SIRT6 Modulators in Alzheimer's Disease, Aging, Cancer, Inflammation, and Diabetes

Raushanara Akter et al. Int J Mol Sci. .

Abstract

Natural products have long been used as drugs to treat a wide array of human diseases. The lead compounds discovered from natural sources are used as novel templates for developing more potent and safer drugs. Natural products produce biological activity by binding with biological macromolecules, since natural products complement the protein-binding sites and natural product-protein interactions are already optimized in nature. Sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) is an NAD+ dependent histone deacetylase enzyme and a unique Sirtuin family member. It plays a crucial role in different molecular pathways linked to DNA repair, tumorigenesis, glycolysis, gluconeogenesis, neurodegeneration, cardiac hypertrophic responses, etc. Thus, it has emerged as an exciting target of several diseases such as cancer, neurodegenerative diseases, aging, diabetes, metabolic disorder, and heart disease. Recent studies have shown that natural compounds can act as modulators of SIRT6. In the current review, a list of natural products, their sources, and their mechanisms of SIRT6 activity modulation has been compiled. The potential application of these naturally occurring SIRT6 modulators in the amelioration of major human diseases such as Alzheimer's disease, aging, diabetes, inflammation, and cancer has also been delineated. Natural products such as isoquercetin, luteolin, and cyanidin act as SIRT6 activators, whereas vitexin, catechin, scutellarin, fucoidan, etc. work as SIRT6 inhibitors. It is noteworthy to mention that quercetin acts as both SIRT6 activator and inhibitor depending on its concentration used. Although none of them were found as highly selective and potent modulators of SIRT6, they could serve as the starting point for developing selective and highly potent scaffolds for SIRT6.

Keywords: SIRT6; fatty acid; modulators; natural products; peptides; polyphenols and flavonoids.

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The authors declare no conflict of interests regarding the publication of this paper.

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Sirtuin 6 (SIRT6) and its association with different diseases.
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