Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To add a phosphate group to (an organic molecule).
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- verb transitive To cause
phosphorylation . - verb intransitive To undergo phosphorylation.
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Examples
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Some kinases only phosphorylate "downstream" of other phosphosites.
Prediction of phospho-proteins from sequence Pedro Beltrao 2008
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The glycerol backbone of triglycerides stored in fat cells is ensured of being used as a gluconeogenic substrate since fat cells lack the enzyme that would be needed to phosphorylate the glycerol molecule.
More on Tierney, Taubes and saturated fat | The Blog of Michael R. Eades, M.D. 2008
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If there is no Krebs cycle, no metabolism and no more ATP to phosphorylate peptides in kinase activity etc, then that organism is simply dead — and it is in equilibrium, or is on a monotonic course to equilibrium as it decays or is consumed by other organisms.
A Dark, Misleading Force Sean 2007
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They will phosphorylate different proteins and affect the cell nucleus, which in turn will issue orders regarding the synthesis of new proteins.
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This means that enzymes phosphorylate and dephosphorylate proteins.
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The cleavage product, containing a tyrosine kinase domain, is translocated to the nucleus and is believed to phosphorylate nuclear substrates
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chang-Jin Park et al. 2010
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The cleavage product, containing a tyrosine kinase domain, is translocated to the nucleus and is believed to phosphorylate nuclear substrates
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Chang-Jin Park et al. 2010
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As CDK4 is known to phosphorylate Rb, and is a known oncogene, the independent oncogenic role of
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Ethan Cerami et al. 2010
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The activity of Akt immunoprecipitated from the cell lysates was determined by its ability to phosphorylate GSK3α.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010
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Effect of ROS and RNS modulators on insulin-stimulated Akt activity Although phosphorylation of Ser473 and Thr308 residues is generally used as a marker of Akt activation, we directly measured its enzymatic activity by determining its ability to phosphorylate GSK3α which is one of its known targets.
PLoS ONE Alerts: New Articles Alfredo Csibi et al. 2010
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