phosphorylate

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phosphorylate (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.