octanoylation

octanoylation

English

Etymology

octanoyl +‎ -ation

Noun

octanoylation (uncountable)

1. 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, DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0133600:

     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 ].