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acetylation

NOUN
  1. the process of introducing an acetyl group into a compound
    the acetylation of cyclooxygenase-2 by aspirin

How To Use acetylation In A Sentence

  • The acetylation of salicylic acid increased the potency of morphine by making the compound more soluble in brain fat and facilitating transfer across the blood brain barrier.
  • Important mechanisms for epigenetic alteration of gene expression include DNA methylation and histone acetylation.
  • The second change, which is called acetylation, converts the CoA form of B5 back into acteyl CoA. The World's Healthiest Foods
  • This process gives accurate results with geraniol, borneol, and menthol, but with linalol and terpineol the figures obtained are only comparative, a considerable quantity of these alcohols being decomposed during the acetylation. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
  • Studies of mutant huntingtin by MGH-MIND researchers and their collaborators suggested a possible connection with a process of protein modification called acetylation, in which enzymes add a molecule called an acetyl group to the amino acid lysine. EurekAlert! - Breaking News
  • K, et al. (2005) Histone H3 methylation by Set2 directs deacetylation of coding regions by Rpd3S to suppress spurious intragenic transcription. PLoS Biology: New Articles
  • The chitosan was prepared with 92% deacetylation degree using n-butanol and sodium hydroxide as a reaction medium and cetyltrimethylammonium bromide as a phase transfer catalyst.
  • Blocking deacetylation by sodium butyrate or trichostatin A derepresses silent rRNA genes subject to nucleolar dominance.
  • This process gives accurate results with geraniol, borneol, and menthol, but with linalol and terpineol the figures obtained are only comparative, a considerable quantity of these alcohols being decomposed during the acetylation. The Handbook of Soap Manufacture
  • Domain-wide hyperacetylation was strongly reduced by treatment with actinomycinD but not with the protein synthesis inhibitor cycloheximide (CHX). PLoS Biology: New Articles
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