Based on studies in mice, FOXO1 binds the promoter of the POMC gene, encoding Pro-opiomelanocortin (Kitamura et al. 2006). FOXO1-mediated repression of the POMC gene is positively regulated by SIRT1-mediated deacetylation of FOXO1 (Cakir et al. 2009).
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