This protocol describes the required steps to execute in vitro and in vivo deacetylation assays in order to establish the role of proteins as specific deacetylation substrates for sirtuins and further study the role of reversible - lysine acetylation as a post-translational modification.
Song, H. Y., Park, S., Kang, H., Vassilopoulos, A. Deacetylation Assays to Unravel the Interplay between Sirtuins (SIRT2) and Specific Protein-substrates. J. Vis. Exp. (108), e53563, doi:10.3791/53563 (2016).