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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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There are two processes that occur within the mitochondria named as the kerbs cycle and oxidative phosphorylation.
Dynamic control of protein phosphorylation is necessary for the regulation of many cellular processes, including mitosis and cytokinesis.
Protein kinases turn on other enzymes by a chemical reaction called phosphorylation that adds phosphate tags to proteins.
Soluble proteins were extracted from gravistimulated pulvini and subjected to protein phosphorylation reactions.
In animal cells serine, threonine and tyrosine are the amino acids subject to phosphorylation.
Cytochrome oxidases are the terminal enzymes of aerobic electron transport phosphorylation.

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