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multimethylation

multimethylation noun: methylation at multiple sites.

Noun

multimethylation (uncountable)

  1. methylation at multiple sites
    • For instance, PTMs such as lipoylation, glycosylation, phosphorylation and SUMOylation can have a high impact on host immune modulation during Ehrlichia muris [57 ], Ehrlichia chaffeensis [58 ] and Anaplasma phagocytophilum [59 ] infections and, multimethylation can lead to different levels of...2015 December 22, “Comparative Proteomic Profiling of Ehrlichia ruminantium Pathogenic Strain and Its High-Passaged Attenuated Strain Reveals Virulence and Attenuation-Associated Proteins”, in PLOS...

Origin of multimethylation

From multi- + methylation.

Questions about multimethylation

What does multimethylation mean?
Multimethylation means methylation at multiple sites.
What part of speech is multimethylation?
Multimethylation is a noun.

Words near multimethylation in the dictionary

  1. multimethodologically
  2. multimethodologies
  3. multimethodology
  4. multimethods
  5. multimethylated
  6. multimethylation
  7. multimetric
  8. multimetrical
  9. multimicrobial
  10. multimicrogrid
  11. multimicronutrient

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