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]

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