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Peer-reviewed Articles
Anderson, R., Bitterman, K., Wood, J., Medvedik, O. and Sinclair, DA. Nicotinamide and   Pnc1 govern lifespan extension by calorie restriction in S. cerevisiae. Nature, 2003;   423:181-185
 
Howitz, KT., Bitterman, KJ., Cohen, HY., Lamming, DW., Lavu, S., Wood, JG., Zipkin, RE.,   Chung P., Kisielewski, A., Zhang, L., Scherer, B., Sinclair DA. Small molecule sirtuin   activators that extend S. cerevisiae lifespan. Nature 2003; 425:191-196.
 
Anderson, RA., Latorre-Esteves, M., Neves, A., Lavu, S., Taylor, C., Howitz, KT., Santos,   H., Sinclair, DA. Lifespan extension by calorie restriction is independent of NAD   fluctuation. Science 2003; 302:2124-2126.
 
Brunet A, Sweeney LB, Sturgill JF, Chua KF, Greer PL, Lin Y, Tran H, Ross SE,   Mostoslavsky R, Cohen HY, Hu LS, Cheng HL, Jedrychowski MP, Gygi SP, Sinclair DA, Alt   FW, Greenberg ME. Stress-Dependent Regulation of FOXO Transcription Factors by the   SIRT1 Deacetylase. Science 2004 303, 2011-5.
 
Lu T, Pan Y, Kao SY, Li C, Kohane I, Chan J, Yankner BA. Gene regulation and DNA   damage in the ageing human brain. Nature. 2004 429(6994):883-9
 
Cohen, HY, Lavu, S., Bitterman, KJ, Hekking, B., Imahiyerobo, TA, Miller, C., Frye, R.,   Ploegh, H, Kessler, BM, Sinclair DA. Acetylation of the C-terminus of Ku70 by CBP and   PCAF controls Bax-mediated apoptosis. Molecular Cell, 13: 627-38
 
Cohen, H.Y., Miller, C., Bitterman, K.J., Wall, N.R., Hekking, B., Kessler, B., Howitz, KT.,   Gorospe, M., de Cabo, R. and Sinclair, DA. Calorie restriction promotes cell survival by   inducing SIRT1. Science, 2004.; 305(5682):390-2
 
Wood, J., Rogina, B., Lavu, S., Howitz, K.T., Helfand, S.L., Tatar, M., Sinclair, DA. Sirtuin   activators mimic calorie restriction and delay aging in metazoans. Nature, 2004;   430:686-9
 
A gamma-secretase-independent mechanism of signal transduction by the amyloid   precursor protein.J Biol Chem. 2005 Nov 4;280(44):36895-90
 
Xu J, Zhong N, Wang H, Elias JE, Kim CY, Woldman I, Pifl C, Gygi SP, Geula C, Yankner   BA. The Parkinson's disease-associated DJ-1 protein is a transcriptional co-activator that   protects against neuronal apoptosis. Hum Mol Genet. 2005 May 1;14(9):1231-4
 
Lamming, D, Latorre-Esteves, M, Medvedik, O, Wong, S.N., Tsang, F.A, Wang, C, Lin, S-J,   Sinclair, DA. HST2 mediates SIR2-independent lifespan extension by calorie restriction.   Science, 2005; 309(5742):1861-4.
 
Reviews and Chapters.
 
Lamming, D. Wood, J., Sinclair, DA. Small Molecule Mimetics of Calorie Restriction:   evidence for xenohormesis. Molecular Microbiology Reviews, 2004; 53(4):1003-9
 
 
Howitz, K.T. and Sinclair, DA. Dietary restriction and small molecule mimetics In   Handbook of Aging, Austad, S. and Masoro, E. eds. 2005, Academic Press.
 
 
Sinclair, DA. Sirtuins for healthy neurons (2005) Nature Genetics, 37(4):339-40.
  Sinclair, DA. Towards a unified theory of caloric restriction. (2005) Mech Ageing Dev.,   26(9):987-1002.
 
 
Howitz, KT. Caloric Restriction, Hormesis and Small Molecule Mimetic in The Handbook of   the Biology of Aging. (2005) Austad, S and Masoro, E (Eds.) Academic Press.
 
 
Sinclair, DA, Guarente, LP. Sirtuins: master regulators of aging. Scientific American, March   issue.