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- verb Present participle of
deacetylate .
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Examples
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The process of synthesizing Chitosan involves taking the shells of shrimp or crabs, grinding them to a fine powder and then deacetylating this powder.
Wil's Ebay E-Store 2010
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As FE65 can simultaneously bind SET and, through Teashirt3, HDACs, this would establish a strongly transcriptionally repressed state of nucleosomes by deacetylating histone amino-terminal tails (through HDAC) and preventing them from being reacetylated (through SET inhibition of histone acetyltransferase).
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Transcriptional repression can be initiated near the promoter by deacetylating specific lysine residues of nearby histone proteins.
GEN News Highlights 2009
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