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vb. 1 (context transitive English) to cause phosphorylation 2 (context intransitive English) to undergo phosphorylation
Usage examples of "phosphorylate".
The membranes of course contain both the proteins and the enzyme that phosphorylates them, protein kinase C.
Depending on mood and metabolic circumstance, they will allow themselves to be phosphorylated, glycosylated, acetylated, ubiquitinated, farneysylated, sulfated, and linked to glycophosphatidylinositol anchors, among rather a lot else.
There are a number of membrane proteins which can be phosphorylated in this way, some postsynaptic, some presynaptic, and the enzymes responsible for catalysing the phosphorylation are known collectively as protein kinases.
If radioactive ATP is added to a tiny sample of the membranes, and incubated together for a few seconds in a miniature test-tube, the membrane proteins become both phosphorylated and radioactive.