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phosphate
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-gen
Noun
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phosphagen
(
plural
phosphagens
)
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(
biochemistry
)
Any of a class of
energy
storage
compounds
, chiefly found in
muscular
tissue
in
animals
, allowing a high-energy
phosphate
pool
to be maintained in a
concentration
range, which, if it all were
ATP
, would create problems due to the ATP consuming reactions in these tissues.