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  • noun organic chemistry Any reaction that removes one or more acetyl 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

  • 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

  • Inhibiting deacetylation with HDAC inhibitors leads to increased acetylation.

    Gene Key To Alzheimer’s-like Reversal Identified | Impact Lab 2009

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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 2010

  • 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

  • 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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