antioxidants Article Sirt3 Exerts Its Tumor-Suppressive Role by Increasing p53 and Attenuating Response to Estrogen in MCF-7 Cells 1, 1, 1 2 Marija Pinteri´c y, Iva I. Podgorski y , Marijana Popovi´cHadžija , Vedrana Fili´c , Mladen Paradžik 2,3 , Bastien Lucien Jean Proust 1, Ana Dekani´c 1 , Ivan Ciganek 1, Denis Pleše 1, Dora Marˇcinko 1, Tihomir Balog 1 and Sandra Soboˇcanec 1,* 1 Division of Molecular Medicine, Ruđer Boškovi´cInstitute, 10000 Zagreb, Croatia;
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[email protected]; Tel.: +385-1-4561-172 These authors contributed equally to this work. y Received: 25 February 2020; Accepted: 30 March 2020; Published: 1 April 2020 Abstract: Estrogen (E2) is a major risk factor for the initiation and progression of malignancy in estrogen receptor (ER) positive breast cancers, whereas sirtuin 3 (Sirt3), a major mitochondrial NAD+-dependent deacetylase, has the inhibitory effect on the tumorigenic properties of ER positive MCF-7 breast cancer cells. Since it is unclear if this effect is mediated through the estrogen receptor alpha (ERα) signaling pathway, in this study, we aimed to determine if the tumor-suppressive function of Sirt3 in MCF-7 cells interferes with their response to E2.