glycerophosphorylation

noun

phosphorylation with a glycerophosphoric acid (or derivative)

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Meanings

nounglycerophosphorylation (uncountable)
  1. uncountablechemistryphosphorylation with a glycerophosphoric acid (or derivative)

    Since we were unable to assign the mass of this neutral loss to any part of the glycerophosphorylation, it is possible that this unusual modification has a different chemical nature.

    2016 January 29, “Histone H1 Variants in Arabidopsis Are Subject to Numerous Post-Translational Modifications, Both Conserved and Previously Unknown in Histones, Suggesting Complex Functions of H1 in Plants”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From glycero- + phosphorylation.

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