Skip to content

transphosphorylate

verb

  1. to carry out transfer of phosphate between molecular compounds; to exchange phosphate groups between organic phosphates, without going through the stage of inorganic phosphates
L1412860 on Wikidata ↗

Wiktionary

verb

Etymology: From trans- + phosphorylate.

  1. To carry out transphosphorylation upon.

    Activation of this receptor complex occurs when type II receptor transphosphorylates glycine-serine domain of receptor type I. Then the activated type I kinase is transiently associated with a transmembrane receptor, Smad2/Smad3.