“…As the mitochondrial guardian, Sirt3 controls mitochondrial protein stability to regulate antioxidant defence, structural dynamics, biogenesis, mtDNA repair and metabolism primarily through the deacetylation of target proteins including FOXO3a, OGG1, OPA1, SOD2, pyruvate dehydrogenase, citrate synthase, aconitase, isocitrate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, malate dehydrogenase, succinate dehydrogenase, Ku70, GSK3β, mitochondrial trifunctional protein and phosphofructokinase (Murugasamy et al, 2022; Zhang et al, 2020). Loss of Sirt3 has been critically implicated in diverse pathologies involving mitochondrial structural and functional defects, leading to metabolic and bioenergetic problems (Peng et al, 2022; Sherin et al, 2021; Wu et al, 2019; Zhang et al, 2020). As a result, metabolically active tissues are susceptible to Sirt3 deficiency (Dittenhafer‐Reed et al, 2015; Zhang et al, 2020).…”