Etymograph

English

hyperacetylation

From hyper- + acetylation.

Formed from hyper- + acetylation

Proto-Indo-European *úp

Proto-Indo-European *upér ‘over, above’

Proto-Hellenic *hupér

Ancient Greek ὑπέρ ‘over’

English hyper-

Today it means

noun The excessive acetylation of the lysine residues of a protein (especially of a histone)

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