“…They were first discovered in yeast as a transcriptional repressor called silent information regulator 2 protein (Sir2) (Klar et al , 1979; Rine and Herskowitz, 1987). All eukaryotes encode sirtuins in their genomes as sirtuins have important functions in regulating cellular stress responses (Brunet et al , 2004; Dai et al , 2014; Maksin-Matveev et al , 2015), mitochondrial biogenesis (Brenmoehl and Hoeflich, 2013), apoptosis (Alcendor et al , 2004; Motta et al , 2004), metabolism (Purushotham et al , 2009), fatty acid oxidation (Hirschey et al , 2010), and inflammation (Cao et al , 2013; Liu and McCall, 2013). …”