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Karen Jardine

Researcher at Ottawa Hospital Research Institute

Publications -  39
Citations -  3280

Karen Jardine is an academic researcher from Ottawa Hospital Research Institute. The author has contributed to research in topics: Gene & Transgene. The author has an hindex of 24, co-authored 39 publications receiving 2988 citations. Previous affiliations of Karen Jardine include University of Ottawa.

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The Mammalian SIR2α Protein Has a Role in Embryogenesis and Gametogenesis

TL;DR: No evidence for failure of gene silencing is found in sir2α null animals, suggesting that either SIR2α has a different role in mammals than it does in Saccharomyces cerevisiae or that its role in genesilencing in confined to a small subset of mammalian genes.
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SirT1 regulates energy metabolism and response to caloric restriction in mice.

TL;DR: SirT1 is an important regulator of energy metabolism and, like its orthologues from simpler eukaryotes, the SirT1 protein appears to be required for a normal response to caloric restriction.
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The mouse Pgk-1 gene promoter contains an upstream activator sequence.

TL;DR: The Pgk-1 gene encodes the housekeeping enzyme, 3-phosphoglycerate kinase, and is ubiquitously expressed and the 120 bp upstream of the transcription start site functions as a core promoter, which enhances transcription from the core promoter in an orientation and position independent fashion.
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SirT1-null mice develop tumors at normal rates but are poorly protected by resveratrol

TL;DR: SirT1 does not behave like a classical tumor-suppressor gene but the antitumor activity of resveratrol is mediated at least in part by SirT1, suggesting that part of the protection afforded by resver atrol requires the SirT 1-encoded protein.