phosphorylate
English
editEtymology
editFrom phosphoryl + -ate.
Verb
editphosphorylate (third-person singular simple present phosphorylates, present participle phosphorylating, simple past and past participle phosphorylated)
- (transitive) to cause phosphorylation.
- 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 359:
- The protein made by the viral src gene was so potent and hyperactive that it phosphorylated anything and everything around it.
- (intransitive) to undergo phosphorylation.
Derived terms
editTranslations
editto cause phosphorylation
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to undergo phosphorylation
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See also
edit- phosphorate (not to be confused)