phosphorylate
verbEtymology From phosphoryl + -ate (verb-forming suffix), or back-formation from phosphorylation.
1
To cause phosphorylation.
- The protein made by the viral src gene was so potent and hyperactive that it phosphorylated anything and everything around it.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 359:
2
To undergo phosphorylation.
- Derived terms
- autophosphorylate, dephosphorylate, hyperphosphorylate, monophosphorylate, phosphorylatable, prephosphorylate, rephosphorylate, transphosphorylate, triphosphorylate
- Related terms
- phosphorate