Definition of "phosphorylate" []

• To add a phosphate group to (an organic molecule). (verb-transitive)

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• "The glycerol backbone of triglycerides stored in fat cells is ensured of being used as a gluconeogenic substrate since fat cells lack the enzyme that would be needed to phosphorylate the glycerol molecule."
• "Some kinases only phosphorylate "downstream" of other phosphosites."
• "If there is no Krebs cycle, no metabolism and no more ATP to phosphorylate peptides in kinase activity etc, then that organism is simply dead — and it is in equilibrium, or is on a monotonic course to equilibrium as it decays or is consumed by other organisms."