phosphodonor

P3H4O1S1P3H4O1D2O1N1O1R1

noun

Any substance that donates a phosphoryl group

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Meanings

nounphosphodonor (plural phosphodonors)

plural phosphodonors

  1. biochemistryAny substance that donates a phosphoryl group
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    Their K 1/2 values scaled inversely with the aggregate lengths of their connecting segment between Tsr1 and Tsr2: the longest linker (546~551/L-6) produced the most sensitive response (K 1/2 = 55 μM); the shortest (517~551/L-4) failed to respond to serine, but evinced high kinase activity upon potassium cyanide challenge, which depletes cellular ATP, the phosphodonor for the CheA autophosphorylation reaction (see Methods ).

    2015 December 29, “Chemotactic Signaling by Single-Chain Chemoreceptors”, in PLOS ONE, →DOI

Origin

From phospho- + donor.

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