ACYLATION

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does acylation mean? 

• ACYLATION (noun)
  The noun ACYLATION has 1 sense:

1. the process of introducing an acyl group into a compound

  Familiarity information: ACYLATION used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ACYLATION (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

The process of introducing an acyl group into a compound

Classified under:

Nouns denoting natural processes

Hypernyms ("acylation" is a kind of...):

chemical action; chemical change; chemical process ((chemistry) any process determined by the atomic and molecular composition and structure of the substances involved)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "acylation"):

acetylation (the process of introducing an acetyl group into a compound)

 Context examples 

This protein plays a role in lipid acylation.

(Lysocardiolipin Acyltransferase 1, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein is involved in fatty acid acylation.

(Long-Chain-Fatty-Acid--CoA Ligase 6, NCI Thesaurus)

This protein plays a role in the mediation of carnitine acylation.

(Carnitine O-Palmitoyltransferase 1, Brain Isoform, NCI Thesaurus)