phosphate group

noun

, Chemistry.

1. the group or radical obtained by removal of one or more hydrogen atoms from phosphoric acid.

Word History and Origins

Origin of phosphate group¹

First recorded in 1950–55

Example Sentences

Ghosh said the conflict stems from problematic phosphorylation, the attachment of a phosphate group to the G protein molecule.

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Nucleotides are composed of three distinctive parts: a sugar molecule, a phosphate group and one of the four nucleobases adenine, thymine, guanine and cytosine.

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A kinase is an enzyme that adds a phosphate group to another molecule, in this case a protein, to regulate important activities in the cell.

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The research has revealed how the attack protein is controlled through a process called phosphorylation, a process in which a phosphate group is added to a protein by enzymes called protein kinases.

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The disassembly phase is initiated by the release of a phosphate group from inside the filament, but the details of this process have puzzled scientists since decades.

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