Definition of "nitrosylation" [nitrosylation]

• The reaction of nitric oxide with a biological compound, especially with a sulfur containing part of a protein as a posttranslational modification (noun)
• Any reaction with a nitrosyl compound (noun)

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• "Treatments that imitate this process, called nitrosylation, were tested on cell cultures, human specimens and mice genetically altered to mimic human disease."
• "Several major forms of oxidative modifications can occur on amino acid residue side chains, including carbonylation, nitrosylation, and oxidation of methionine to methionine sulfoxide"
• "Yasukawa T, Tokunaga E, Ota H, Sugita H, Martyn JA, et al. (2005) S-nitrosylation-dependent inactivation of Akt/protein kinase B in insulin resistance."