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Biologically Active Substance
phosphoproteins
phos·pho·pro·teins
Subclass of:
Proteins
Definitions related to phosphoproteins:
  • Protein phosphorylation is probably the most ubiquitous and diverse molecular mechanism of biological signal transduction; thus many proteins (not all treed here) may be phosphorylated at some time.
    CRISP Thesaurus
    National Institutes of Health, 2006
  • Proteins that contain phosphate groups esterified to serine, threonine or tyrosine. The phosphate group usually regulates protein function.
    NCI Thesaurus
    U.S. National Cancer Institute, 2021
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