octanoylation
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octanoylation (uncountable)
- reaction with octanoic acid (to form an octanoate)
- 2015 July 22, “Dietary Caprylic Acid (C8:0) Does Not Increase Plasma Acylated Ghrelin but Decreases Plasma Unacylated Ghrelin in the Rat”, in PLOS ONE[1], :
- The ghrelin O-acyltransferase (GOAT or MBOAT4), the gastric enzyme involved in ghrelin octanoylation, belongs to the family of membrane bound O-acyltransferases (MBOAT), a group of proteins involved in acetyltransferase and acyltransferase activity [23 ,24 ].