monophosphate
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of monophosphate
Example Sentences
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A protein kinase activated by cyclic adenosine monophosphate, an intracellular signaling molecule.
From Science Daily • Dec. 3, 2024
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
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
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
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