phosphorylate

English

Etymology

From phosphoryl +‎ -ate (verb-forming suffix), or back-formation from phosphorylation.

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.

Derived terms

• autophosphorylate
• dephosphorylate
• hyperphosphorylate
• monophosphorylate
• phosphorylatable
• prephosphorylate
• rephosphorylate
• transphosphorylate
• triphosphorylate

 

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)