phosphorylate

English

Etymology

phosphoryl +‎ -ate

Verb

phosphorylate (third-person singular simple present phosphorylates, present participle phosphorylating, simple past and past participle phosphorylated)

1. (transitive) to cause phosphorylation.
   • 2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 359:

     The protein made by the viral src gene was so potent and hyperactive that it phosphorylated anything and everything around it.

2. (intransitive) to undergo phosphorylation.

Related terms

• dephosphorylate

Translations

to cause phosphorylation

• Finnish: fosforyloida
• Portuguese: fosforilar
• Spanish: fosforilar (es)
• Swedish: fosforylera (sv)

to undergo phosphorylation

• Finnish: fosforyloitua
• Spanish: fosforilarse
• Swedish: fosforylera (sv)

See also

• phosphorate (not to be confused)