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What does phosphorylation mean?

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Noun
  1. (biochemistry) the process of transferring a phosphate group from a donor to an acceptor; often catalysed by enzymes.
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Cytochrome oxidases are the terminal enzymes of aerobic electron transport phosphorylation.
We can divide cellular respiration into three metabolic processes: glycolysis, the Krebs cycle, and oxidative phosphorylation.
As expected, casein phosphorylation occurred on serine and threonine residues.
Smooth muscle does not contain troponin and is primarily regulated by the phosphorylation of myosin.
Soluble proteins were extracted from gravistimulated pulvini and subjected to protein phosphorylation reactions.
Changing the phosphorylation state of the CTD is one mechanism by which binding of accessory proteins to the CTD of pol II may be regulated.

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