Phosphorylate is an English word. Below you'll find 10+ example sentences showing how it's used in practice.
Phosphorylate meaning
- To cause phosphorylation.
- To undergo phosphorylation.
Using Phosphorylate
- The main meaning on this page is: To cause phosphorylation. | To undergo phosphorylation.
- In the example corpus, phosphorylate often appears in combinations such as: to phosphorylate, kinases phosphorylate, phosphorylate serine.
Context around Phosphorylate
- Average sentence length in these examples: 23.4 words
- Position in the sentence: 1 start, 7 middle, 5 end
- Sentence types: 13 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Phosphorylate
- In this selection, "phosphorylate" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 23.4 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, kinases, instead, helps, serine, substrate and lipids stand out and add context to how "phosphorylate" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include activated kinases phosphorylate the receptor and bind and phosphorylate selected substrates. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "phosphorylate" sits close to words such as aaronson, abai and abass, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with phosphorylate
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
In a feedback mechanism, these activated kinases phosphorylate the receptor. (10 words)
The capacity of liver cells to phosphorylate fructose exceeds capacity of metabolize fructose-1-phosphate. (15 words)
They constitute a family of seven mammalian serine-threonine protein kinases that phosphorylate agonist-bound receptor. (16 words)
Since members of the type I and type II cytokine receptor families possess no catalytic kinase activity, they rely on the JAK family of tyrosine kinases to phosphorylate and activate downstream proteins involved in their signal transduction pathways. (38 words)
Cyclic AMP binds to specific locations on the regulatory units of the protein kinase, and causes dissociation between the regulatory and catalytic subunits, thus enabling those catalytic units to phosphorylate substrate proteins. (32 words)
RTKs are composed of an extracellular domain, which is able to bind a specific ligand, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular catalytic domain, which is able to bind and phosphorylate selected substrates. (32 words)
Example sentences (13)
Cyclic AMP binds to specific locations on the regulatory units of the protein kinase, and causes dissociation between the regulatory and catalytic subunits, thus enabling those catalytic units to phosphorylate substrate proteins.
In 1975, it was shown that cAMP-dependent proteins kinases phosphorylate serine residues on specific amino acid sequence motifs.
In a feedback mechanism, these activated kinases phosphorylate the receptor.
It occurs in liver cells, and will only phosphorylate the glucose entering the cell to form glucose-6-phosphate (G6P), when the sugar in the blood is abundant.
Lipid kinases Lipid kinases phosphorylate lipids in the cell, both on the plasma membrane as well as on the membranes of the organelles.
Protein kinase A can also phosphorylate specific proteins that bind to promoter regions of DNA, causing increasenes.
RTKs are composed of an extracellular domain, which is able to bind a specific ligand, a transmembrane domain, and an intracellular catalytic domain, which is able to bind and phosphorylate selected substrates.
Since members of the type I and type II cytokine receptor families possess no catalytic kinase activity, they rely on the JAK family of tyrosine kinases to phosphorylate and activate downstream proteins involved in their signal transduction pathways.
The capacity of liver cells to phosphorylate fructose exceeds capacity of metabolize fructose-1-phosphate.
The flow of protons makes the stalk subunit rotate, causing the active site of the synthase domain to change shape and phosphorylate adenosine diphosphate – turning it into ATP.
The pyruvate dehydrogenase family of kinases in animals is structurally related to histidine kinases, but instead phosphorylate serine residues, and probably do not use a phospho-histidine intermediate.
They constitute a family of seven mammalian serine-threonine protein kinases that phosphorylate agonist-bound receptor.
This reaction occurs due to the enzyme hexokinase, an enzyme that helps phosphorylate many six-membered ring structures.
Common combinations with phosphorylate
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts: