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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of deacetylate.

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Examples

  • When activated, SIRT1 deacetylates this peptide causing the tag to glow.

    Scientific American 2010

  • Xu F, Zhang Q, Zhang K, Xie W, Grunstein M (2007) Sir2 deacetylates histone H3 lysine 56 to regulate telomeric heterochromatin structure in yeast.

    PLoS Biology: New Articles 2008

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