protein demethylation

Known as: protein amino acid demethylation

The removal of a methyl group, from a protein amino acid. A methyl group is derived from methane by the removal of a hydrogen atom. [GOC:mah]

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2012

Background Tumour suppressor genes are often transcriptionally silenced by promoter hypermethylation, and recent research has…