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Targeting SIRT6: the design and therapeutic implications of activators and inhibitors

Yuxin Shi, Xiaofan Han, Xinqi Li, Xue Li, Hao Fang, Xuben Hou
Bioorganic & Medicinal Chemistry 2026 142:118781

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Funding
Supported by the Noncommunicable Chronic Diseases-National Science and Technology Major Project (2023ZD0507700 and 2023ZD0507704), National Natural Science Foundation of China grants 22477070 and 22377068, Taishan Scholar Programme of Shandong Province, Key R&D Program of Shandong Province, and Shandong Provincial Youth Innovation Team Development Program.
Competing interests
The authors declared no known competing financial interests or personal relationships that could have appeared to influence the work.

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What the study showed, in plain terms

This 2026 review summarizes how SIRT6 drug development has progressed from natural-product leads to structure-guided activators and inhibitors. It emphasizes that SIRT6 is a promising but context-dependent therapeutic target, especially across cancer, metabolism and aging.

Key findings

The review maps major SIRT6 activator and inhibitor chemotypes, structure-activity relationships, binding strategies and the ongoing challenge of achieving selective, drug-like modulation. It stresses that both activation and inhibition can be therapeutically relevant depending on disease context.

What this study can and cannot tell us

This is a narrative medicinal-chemistry review rather than a clinical trial or systematic efficacy analysis. Its value is synthesis of the modulator pipeline, not proof that any SIRT6 intervention improves human aging outcomes.

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