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List of Lysine Deacetylases in Mammals


Below are the lysine deacetylases found in mammals. The information was culled and curated from several existing resources (click to open): Histome: The Histone Infobase, UniProtKB, NCBI, Rat Genome Database,Drazic et al.2016. By BLAST searches with conserved catalytic domains, we found 3 putative novel lysine deacetylase enzymes (Fam118A, Famm118B, HDA1L). HDAC1L is exclusively expressed by rats.

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Reference: Hyndman KA, Knepper MA. Dynamic regulation of lysine acetylation; the balance between acetyltransferase and deacetylase activities. Am J Physiol Renal Physiol. 2017 Jul 12:ajprenal.00313.2017. PMID: 28701313



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UniProt Protein Name Gene Symbol Amino Acid Number Cofactor Pfam Conserved Domain Predominant Localization Known Substrates
O09106 Histone deacetylase 1 Hdac1 482 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl nucleus H3K56, H2A, H2B, H4, RELA,AR,NR1D2, TSHZ3 
P70288 Histone deacetylase 2 Hdac2 488 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl nucleus H2A, H2B, H3, H4, TSHZ3
O88895 Histone deacetylase 3 Hdac3 428 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl nucleus H2A, H2B, H3K4, H3K27, H4, NF-KB, KAT2B, STAT1, RELA
Q6NZM9 Histone deacetylase 4 Hdac4 1076 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl nulceus,cytosol H2A, H2B, H3, H4, HIF1α, p53, HSPA1A, HSPA1B
Q9Z2V6 Histone deacetylase 5 Hdac5 1115 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl nulceus,cytosol GATA-2, GCM1,α-tubulin
Q9Z2V5 Histone deacetylase 6 Hdac6 1149 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl cytosol CTTN, α-tubulin, HSP90
Q8C2B3 Histone deacetylase 7 Hdac7 953 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl nulceus/cytosol/mitochondrion inner membrane space PLAG1
Q8VH37 Histone deacetylase 8 Hdac8 377 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl nulceus,cytosol H2A, H2B, H3, H4, p53, ERRα
Q99N13 Histone deacetylase 9 Hdac9 1088 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl nulceus,cytosol ATDC
Q6P3E7 Histone deacetylase 10 Hdac10 666 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl cytosol HSP70, PP1
Q91WA3 Histone deacetylase 11 Hdac11 347 Zn2+ Hist_deacetyl nulceus,cytosol H2A, H2B, H3, H4
Q923E4 Sirtuin-1 Sirt1 737 NAD+, Zn2+ Sir2 nucleus H4K16, H3K9, H1K25, P53, FOXO1, HSF1, KAT7, CBP
Q8VDQ8 Sirtuin-2 Sirt2 389 NAD+, Zn2+ Sir2 nucleus, cytosol H4K16, H3K56, α-tubulin
Q8R104 Sirtuin-3 Sirt3 334 NAD+, Zn2+ Sir2 mitochondrion matrix, nucleus H3K56, GLUD1, Ku70, ACSS1
Q8R216 Sirtuin-4 Sirt4 333 NAD+, Zn2+ Sir2 mitochondrion matrix GLUD1
Q8K2C6 Sirtuin-5 Sirt5 310 NAD+, Zn2+ Sir2 mitochondrion matrix and inter-membrane space, cytoplasm, nucleus CPS1, CYCS
P59941 Sirtuin-6 Sirt6 334 NAD+, Zn2+ Sir2 nucleus H3K9, H3K5, RBBP8
Q8BKJ9 Sirtuin-7 Sirt7 402 NAD+, Zn2+ Sir2 nucleus H3K18, POLR1E
Q91YN1 Family with sequence similarity 118, member A Fam118a 357 ? Sir2-like membrane ?
Q8C569 Family with sequence similarity 118, member B Fam118b 351 ? Sir2-like cajal bodies in nucleus ?
D3ZVU7 histone deacetylase 1-like Hdac1l 484 ? Hist_deacetyl cytosol (predicted) ?


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