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Over the past two decades, epigenetic regulation has become a rapidly growing and influential field in biology and medicine. One key mechanism involves the acetylation and deacetylation of lysine residues on histone core proteins and other critical proteins that regulate gene expression and cellular signaling. Although histone deacetylases (HDACs) have received significant attention, the roles of individual HDAC isoforms in the pathogenesis of psychiatric diseases still require further research. This is particularly true with regard to the sirtuins, class III HDACs. Sirtuins have unique functional activity and significant roles in normal neurophysiology, as well as in the mechanisms of addiction, mood disorders, and other neuropsychiatric abnormalities. This review aims to elucidate the differences in catalytic structure and function of the seven sirtuins as they relate to psychiatry.
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J Mass Spectrom
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Department of Chemistry and Technology of Drugs, "Sapienza" University of Rome, Rome, Italy.
Ionic liquids (ILs) are a class of organic salts with melting points below 100°C. Owing to their unique chemical and physical properties, they are used as solvents and catalysts in various chemical transformations, progressively replacing common volatile organic solvents (VOCs) in green synthetic applications. However, their intrinsic ionic nature can restrict the use of mass spectrometric techniques to monitor the time progress of a reaction occurring in an IL medium, thus preventing one from following the formation of the reaction products or intercepting the reaction intermediates.
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Department of Cardiology, Barts Heart Center, Barts Health NHS Trust, London, UK.
Background: Degeneration of surgical bioprosthetic aortic valves is increasingly common. Redo surgical aortic valve replacement carries substantial morbidity and mortality, particularly in elderly or high-risk patients. Valve-in-valve (ViV) transcatheter aortic valve implantation (TAVI) has become an established alternative, though data on the performance of self-expanding Portico and Navitor valves remain limited.
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RaDes GmbH, Schnackenburgallee 114, 22525 Hamburg, Germany. Electronic address:
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Department of Computational Biology, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), Okhla Phase III, New Delhi, 110020, India; Infosys Centre for Artificial Intelligence, Indraprastha Institute of Information Technology Delhi (IIIT-Delhi), Okhla Phase III, New Delhi, 110020, In
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September 2025
Department of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Pharmaceutical Sciences, University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
The parasitic protozoan Trypanosoma brucei has a single mitochondrial nucleoid, anchored to the basal body of the flagellum via the tripartite attachment complex (TAC). The detergent-insoluble TAC is essential for mitochondrial genome segregation during cytokinesis. The TAC assembles de novo in a directed way from the probasal body towards the kDNA.
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