to methylate
- verb
- /ˈmɛθəˌleɪt/
- Specialized
- Scientists often methylate compounds to enhance their chemical properties.
- differentially methylated
- methylated loci
- top differentially methylated
So if you have that, it means that you cannot methylate breakdown certain types of B vitamins.
- So if you have that, it means that you cannot methylate breakdown certain types of B vitamins.
Examples
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The enzyme can methylate several substrates during the metabolic process.
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In the vehicle group, > 90% of these CpGs were methylated, and the methylation pattern did not change during development, from weeks 3 to 10 (Figure 4B, top).
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So if you have that, it means that you cannot methylate breakdown certain types of B vitamins.
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But there is a a methylase in there that's also able to methylate those sequences.
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23 While various processes can methylate mercury, USGS reports that "scientists generally agree that methylation by sulfate-reducing bacteria is most important."
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Rosen recently developed a transgenic rice plant that can methylate inorganic arsenic into less toxic organic forms.
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The INS transcription start site was not differentially methylated in the mammary gland.
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We identified three loci that were significantly differentially methylated in relation to blood arsenic concentration based on the Bonferroni threshold p < 1 x 10-7, as shown in Figure 1.
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In the SV tissues from rats, a methylation-sensitive restriction assay showed that seven potential methylation sites were largely methylated (Kandala et al. 1985).
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In biological systems, cells methylate DNA to regulate gene expression.
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Methylate comes from the chemical part methyl, the same root you see in methane, and the ending -ate, which turns a word into a verb meaning 'to make' or 'to add'. So to methylate is to 'add a methyl group' — like putting a tiny chemical tag onto a molecule to change how it behaves.