Histone deacetylases (HDACs) catalyze the deacetylation of lysine residues in their target proteins. This biochemical modification can have profound effects on the functions of these proteins and a dysregulation of HDAC activity contributes to severe diseases, including neoplastic transformation. In the following chapter, we present a strategy that allows to distinguish between the inhibition of the class I HDACs HDAC1, 2, and 3 and of the class IIb HDAC HDAC6. This method is based on Western blot and relies on the detection of hyperacetylated substrates of class I or class IIb HDACs in lysates from cells that were treated with histone deacetylase inhibitors (HDACi).
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Beyer, M., Kiweler, N., Mahboobi, S., & Krämer, O. H. (2017). How to distinguish between the activity of HDAC1-3 and HDAC6 with Western blot. In Methods in Molecular Biology (Vol. 1510, pp. 355–364). Humana Press Inc. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4939-6527-4_26
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