Crossword clues for phosphoprotein
phosphoprotein
Wiktionary
n. (context protein English) any protein containing bound phosphate
WordNet
n. containing chemically bound phosphoric acid
Wikipedia
A phosphoprotein is a protein that is posttranslationally modified by the attachment of either a single phosphate group, or a complex molecule such as 5'-phospho-DNA, through a phosphate group. The target amino acid is usually serine, threonine, or tyrosine residues (mostly in eukaryotes), or aspartic acid or histidine residues (mostly in prokaryotes).
Usage examples of "phosphoprotein".
Maudsley purifying one of the enzymes of phosphoprotein metabolism, writing my first research papers and the PhD thesis.
By using a tracer method involving radio-actively labelled phosphorus, McIlwain and his group had shown that the ATP in its turn was used to synthesize a special class of phosphorus-containing proteins, phosphoproteins, present in very large amounts in the brain.
But after more than a decade of neglect the wheel comes full circle, for it turns out that certain phosphoproteins are centrally involved in memory mechanisms, and today my lab is using the modern variants of the methods I learned with McIlwain nearly thirty years ago.
The phosphoproteins studied in this way produced my first series of published research papers.
As it happens, twenty years later the importance of the phosphoproteins became clear - but by then no-one, not even I, would know or care what I had written in that hard-won concluding chapter.
Following up some of the lines of the PhD, I began to think a little more about the function of the phosphoproteins I had been working on - but still in strictly biological terms.