Mass spectrometry reveals protein acetylation to be as widespread as phosphorylation. Many of the acetylation sites discovered by Choudhary et al. 2 were on proteins in multisubunit complexes.

Acetylation is any chemical reaction that adds an acetyl chemical group (CH3C=O, sometimes abbreviated in chemical structures as Ac) and is a type of acylation reaction. Acetylation of proteins ...

Defects in the structure or function of the centromere ... downstream proteins to the kinetochores and centromeres. Protein acetylation is a conserved post-translational modification that exists ...