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  2. Phosphorylation - Wikipedia

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    Serine in an amino acid chain, before and after phosphorylation. In biochemistry, phosphorylation is the attachment of a phosphate group to a molecule or an ion. [1] This process and its inverse, dephosphorylation, are common in biology. [2] Protein phosphorylation often activates (or deactivates) many enzymes. [3] [4]

  3. Dephosphorylation - Wikipedia

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    In biochemistry, dephosphorylation is the removal of a phosphate (PO 3− 4) group from an organic compound by hydrolysis. It is a reversible post-translational modification. Dephosphorylation and its counterpart, phosphorylation, activate and deactivate enzymes by detaching or attaching phosphoric esters and anhydrides.

  4. Protein phosphorylation - Wikipedia

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    Phosphorylation alters the structural conformation of a protein, causing it to become activated, deactivated, or otherwise modifying its function. [1] Approximately 13,000 human proteins have sites that are phosphorylated. [2] The reverse reaction of phosphorylation is called dephosphorylation, and is catalyzed by protein phosphatases. Protein ...

  5. Phosphorylation cascade - Wikipedia

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    Phosphorylation and dephosphorylation summary. A phosphorylation cascade is a sequence of signaling pathway events where one enzyme phosphorylates another, causing a chain reaction leading to the phosphorylation of thousands of proteins. This can be seen in signal transduction of hormone messages.

  6. Kinase - Wikipedia

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    In biochemistry, a kinase (/ ˈ k aɪ n eɪ s, ˈ k ɪ n eɪ s,-eɪ z /) [2] is an enzyme that catalyzes the transfer of phosphate groups from high-energy, phosphate-donating molecules to specific substrates. This process is known as phosphorylation, where the high-energy ATP molecule donates a phosphate group to the substrate molecule.

  7. Protein phosphatase - Wikipedia

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    Protein phosphorylation is one of the most common forms of reversible protein posttranslational modification , with up to 30% of all proteins being phosphorylated at any given time. Protein kinases (PKs) are the effectors of phosphorylation and catalyse the transfer of a γ-phosphate from ATP to specific amino acids on proteins. Several hundred ...

  8. Phosphomimetics - Wikipedia

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    In a laboratory setting, the use of recombinant proteins to artificially introduce phosphomimetics is a common tool for studying phosphorylation and protein activation. For example, the IRF3 protein must be phosphorylated for its normal activity (transcription of its target genes, like IFNβ ), but when serine amino acid residues were mutated ...

  9. Pyruvate dehydrogenase kinase - Wikipedia

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    [2] PDK1 is the largest of the four with 436 residues while PDK2, PDK3 and PDK4 have 407, 406, and 411 residues respectively. The isozymes have different activity and phosphorylation rates at each site. At site 1 in order from fastest to slowest, PDK2 > PDK4 ≈ PDK1 > PDK3. For site 2, PDK3 > PDK4 > PDK2 > PDK1. Only PDK1 can phosphorylate site 3.