Protein palmitoylation, the thioester linkage of fatty acyl moieties (typically, saturated 16C palmitate) to cysteine, is a lipid modification that serves both to tether proteins to membranes and to direct their localization to membrane microdomains. Unlike the two other types of lipid modification
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