For clarity, this review will use âSIRT1â to refer to the gene and âSirt1-7â to refer to the enzymes it encodes.) The sirtuin enzymes deacetylate not only histones within DNA, but also a number of post-translational proteins.
Each Watson-class LMSR can carry an entire U.S. Army Armor Task Force including 58 tanks and 48 other tracked vehicles, plus more than 900 trucks and other wheeled vehicles. The Watson-class LMSRs, built by NASSCO, are 950-feet long, have a beam of 105 feet and are crewed by 30 merchant mariners. Each LMSR's huge, six-deck interior has a cargo carrying capacity of approximately 393,000 square feet, equivalent to greater than eight football fields.
Military Sealift Command's newest class of ships - Large, Medium-speed, Roll-on/Roll-off Ships, or LMSR - will significantly expand the nation's sealift capability in the 1990s and beyond. Nineteen LMSRs had been converted or built at U.S. shipyards by the year 2001.