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monophosphate

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[mon-uh-fos-feyt] / ˌmɒn əˈfɒs feɪt /

noun

Chemistry.
  1. a salt containing only one phosphate group.


Etymology

Origin of monophosphate

mono- + phosphate

Example Sentences

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A protein kinase activated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate, an intracellular signaling molecule.

From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024

Guanosine monophosphate and inosine monophosphate are known to signal to G-protein-coupled adenosine receptors9, and spermidine can participate in a broad range of activities.

From Nature • Mar. 17, 2020

How do spermidine, guanosine monophosphate and inosine monophosphate induce responses in macrophages, and why do the three metabolites work only when given together?

From Nature • Mar. 17, 2020

There’s also a molecule called adenosine monophosphate, or AMP, that some researchers think might induce hibernation in animals like mice and dogs, which don’t normally hibernate.

From Slate • Sep. 5, 2014

It releases one phosphoric acid group very easily and goes over in the diphosphate, ADP, but it can also lose 2 P-groups as pyrophosphoric acid and leave the monophosphate, AMP.

From History of Phosphorus by Farber, Eduard