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from The Century Dictionary.

  • To introduce an acyl-group into; especially, to prepare an acyl derivative of an organic compound containing a hydroxyl- or amino-group.

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  • verb organic chemistry To add one or more acyl groups to a compound.

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  • Indeed, the specificity of ERAT was unexpected; while highly active on GAM-proghrelin, it did not acylate POMC, proenkephalin,

    PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Akihiko Ozawa et al. 2009

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