Acetylation

乙酰化

英文解释

Acetylation is one of the major post-translational protein modifications in the cell, the acetyl group is donated by the metabolite acetylcoenzyme A, it can be co- or post-translationally attached to either the α-amino group of the N-terminus of proteins or to the ε-amino group of lysine residues.

中文解释

乙酰化是细胞中蛋白质翻译后修饰的主要方式之一，乙酰基由代谢物乙酰辅酶 A 提供，可与蛋白质 N 端 α-氨基或赖氨酸残基 ε-氨基共或译后连接。

参考文献

[1]. Drazic A, et al. The world of protein acetylation. Biochim Biophys Acta. 2016 Oct;1864(10):1372-401.