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- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
phosphorylate . - adjective chemistry
reacted orcombined withphosphoric acid
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Examples
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This activates so called protein kinases, which cause certain "key proteins" to become phosphorylated, that is phosphate molecules are added.
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Nicotinamide, a form of vitamin B3, lowered levels of a protein called phosphorylated tau that leads to the development of tangles, one of two brain lesions associated with Alzheimer's disease.
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Nicotinamide, was found to reduce the levels of a protein called phosphorylated tau that leads to the development of tangles, one of two brain lesions linked with Alzheimer's.
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The key difference between dry silks from moths and butterflies and wet silks from caddisflies is that the serines in the silk from caddisflies are "phosphorylated," meaning phosphates are added to the serines as the fibroin silk protein is synthesized.
THE MEDICAL NEWS Editors 2010
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The key difference between dry silks from moths and butterflies and wet silks from caddisflies is that the serines in the silk from caddisflies are "phosphorylated," meaning phosphates are added to the serines as the fibroin silk protein is synthesized.
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With the introduction of thermodynamics, advances in enzyme chemistry and the discovery of phosphorylated compounds in the 1920s, the stage was set for a sudden shift in how scientists understood intermediate metabolism.
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010
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Working out the importance of the phosphorylated compounds in muscle, for example, greatly stimulated the understanding of energy transformations in glycolysis and changed thinking about how the pathway might be constructed.
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010
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The first hint of ATP's real importance took place within the thermodynamic studies that Meyerhof had ordered for the various phosphorylated compounds.
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010
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Meanwhile, the discovery of other phosphorylated compounds, esters and enzymes also contributed to the demand for
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010
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In late 1928, Kurt Lohmann isolated salts of a new phosphorylated compound from muscle, which he called
Otto Meyerhof and the Physiology Institute: the Birth of Modern Biochemistry 2010
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