SIRT1 and breast carcinoma: In order to investigate the epigenetic role of the histone deacetylase SIRT1 in sporadic breast cancer, we began our studies in ex-vivo by assessing the relative expression levels of SIRT1 and the 3 epigenetic marks H3k4ac, H3k9ac and H4k16ac in all 5 molecular subtypes of breast tumors and their matched normal tissue samples using immunoblot analysis (Figure 1A).