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acetyl group

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Noun1.acetyl group - the organic group of acetic acid (CH3CO-)
acetyl, acetyl radical, ethanoyl group, ethanoyl radical
acyl, acyl group - any group or radical of the form RCO- where R is an organic group; "an example of the acyl group is the acetyl group"
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On the other hand, acetyl groups attaching to histones, the chemical core of chromosomes, usually turn genes on.
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4] analysis, indicating the presence of an acetyl group.
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Verdin's laboratory is the role of protein acetylation and deacetylation in biological processes, specifically the activity of histone deacetylase enzymes (HDACs) that remove acetyl groups from histones and non-histone proteins.
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