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CPLA 1.0: an integrated database of protein lysine acetylation |
There are two types of acetylation processes widely occurred in proteins. The first Nα-terminal acetylation is catalyzed a variety of N-terminal acetyltransferases (NATs), which cotranslationally transfer acetyl moieties from acetyl-coenzyme A (Acetyl-CoA) to the α-amino (Nα) group of protein amino-terminal residues. Although Nα-terminal acetylation is rare in prokaryotes, it was estimated that about 85% of eukaryotic proteins are Nα-terminally modified (Polevoda et al