citrullinate

Verb

citrullinate (third-person singular simple present citrullinates, present participle citrullinating, simple past and past participle citrullinated)

1. (transitive) To react with, or convert to, citrulline.
   • It has been shown that PPAD is able to citrullinate bacterial as well as host peptides such as fibrinogen and α-enolase.2015 August 29, Stefan Reichert et al., “Association of levels of antibodies against citrullinated cyclic peptides and citrullinated α-enolase in chronic and aggressive periodontitis as a risk factor...
   • PADs do not typically citrullinate total arginines found in the amino acid sequence of a protein, but certain arginines are more susceptible to citrullination.[…]Likewise, PAD2 also citrullinates actin and myelin basic protein in the CNS, while PAD4 can citrullinate substrates like nucleophosmin...2017, E. E. Witalison, L. J. Hofseth, “22: Citrullination in Inflammatory-Driven Carcinogenesis of the Colon”, in Anthony P. Nicholas, Sanjoy K. Bhattacharya, Paul R. Thompson, editors, Protein...