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US 2016/0355825 A1Published application
Treatment of disease by modulation of sirt6
AssigneeBar-Ilan University
InventorsHaim COHEN, Yariv KANFI, Sivan ELHANATI
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AssigneeBar-Ilan University
InventorsHaim COHEN, Yariv KANFI, Sivan ELHANATI
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An aspect of an embodiment of the invention relates to providing treatment of disease, in particular age-related disease, through increasing or decreasing the activity of SIRT6 protein. This may be accomplished through upregulation and downregulation of expression of SIRT6 in mammals. It has been found by the inventors that mice over-expressing SIRT6 have a longer lifespan in comparison to control mice, indicating that increasing SIRT6 expression can lengthen lifespan of mammals. Agents which modulate SIRT6 expression through, for example binding to 3′UTR region of human mRNA encoding SIRT6 or by blocking binding of agents to 3′UTR region of human mRNA encoding SIRT6, have been identified.
A method for treating an age-related disease comprising administering to a human subject in need thereof an effective amount of an agent which increases the activity of sirtuin-6 (SIRT6) by increasing the expression of the SIRT6 gene, wherein the agent inhibits binding of a SIRT6 expression inhibitor to a 3′UTR region of human mRNA encoding SIRT6, wherein the expression inhibitor binds to nucleotides 479-486, nucleotides 386-394, nucleotides 199-206, nucleotides 350-359 or nucleotides 455-463 of SEQ. ID NO. 2, and wherein the age-related disease is selected from the group consisting of Hutchinson-Gilford progeria syndrome, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and Werner syndrome.
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