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- noun organic chemistry Any
reaction that removes one or moreacetyl groups from a molecule
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Sure there are plenty of chitosan products out there, but ours goes through a process called deacetylation, making it superior in its purity.
Wil's Ebay E-Store 2010
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Sure there are plenty of chitosan products out there, but ours goes through a process called deacetylation, making it superior in its purity.
Wil's Ebay E-Store amp;34;Nutrition 2010
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Inhibiting deacetylation with HDAC inhibitors leads to increased acetylation.
Gene Key To Alzheimer’s-like Reversal Identified | Impact Lab 2009
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We show here that Gli1 and Gli2 are acetylated proteins and that their HDAC-mediated deacetylation promotes transcriptional activation and sustains a positive autoregulatory loop through Hedgehog-induced upregulation of HDAC1.
Naturejobs - All Jobs Gianluca Canettieri 2010
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Pikaart MJ, Recillas-Targa F, Felsenfeld G (1998) Loss of transcriptional activity of a transgene is accompanied by DNA methylation and histone deacetylation and is prevented by insulators.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hongyu Ying et al. 2010
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Stein and his team also found that Sirtris's drugs could activate SIRT1 even when a fluorescent tag wasn't used to measure deacetylation.
Scientific American 2010
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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 Francesca De Santa et al. 2010
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We show here that Gli1 and Gli2 are acetylated proteins and that their HDAC-mediated deacetylation promotes transcriptional activation and sustains a positive autoregulatory loop through Hedgehog-induced upregulation of HDAC1.
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Trottier E, Pouyssegur J, Brahimi-Horn MC (2006) ARDent about acetylation and deacetylation in hypoxia signalling.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Daniela Trisciuoglio et al. 2010
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Pikaart MJ, Recillas-Targa F, Felsenfeld G (1998) Loss of transcriptional activity of a transgene is accompanied by DNA methylation and histone deacetylation and is prevented by insulators.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Hongyu Ying et al. 2010
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