nitrosylate

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nitrosylate (third-person singular simple present nitrosylates, present participle nitrosylating, simple past and past participle nitrosylated)

(biochemistry) To react a nitrosyl (NO) group with the sulfur-containing cysteines of a protein
- 1999, Daniela Salvemini, “Cyclooxygenase”, in Gabor M. Rubanyi, editor, Pathophysiology and Clinical Applications of Nitric Oxide‎^[1], →ISBN, page 160:
  NO nitrosylates cysteine residues in the catalytic domain of COX enzymes leading to the formation of nitrosothiols; […]

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