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- noun medicine A
selective inhibitor of a particularhistone deacetylase that is involved in many cellular processes, including degradation of misfolded proteins, cell migration, and cell-cell interaction
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Yet just as chemists have had success designing more specific drugs against phosphorylation-modifying enzymes, it might also be possible to develop drugs for specific acetylation-modifying enzymes, Schreiber says, noting his group's discovery of the small molecule tubacin, which targets a single deacetylase.
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Yet just as chemists have had success designing more specific drugs against phosphorylation-modifying enzymes, it might also be possible to develop drugs for specific acetylation-modifying enzymes, Schreiber says, noting his group's discovery of the small molecule tubacin, which targets a single deacetylase.
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