{"id":8747,"date":"2019-05-22T16:11:04","date_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phosphorylation\/"},"modified":"2019-05-22T16:11:04","modified_gmt":"2019-05-22T16:11:04","slug":"phosphorylation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phosphorylation\/","title":{"rendered":"Phosphorylation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The addition of phosphate to an organic compound such as protein through the action of the enzyme phosphylase that triggers the glycogen molecule to form glucose. &nbsp;It can change the activity of protein and is probably the most common mechanism for altering the biological function of proteins in cells and thus for transferring energy between cells.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>See <a href=\"adenosine_triphosphate_-atp-\">Adenosine triphosphate (ATP)<\/a>, <a href=\"creatine\">Creatine<\/a>, <a href=\"dephosphorylation\">Dephosphorylation<\/a>, <a href=\"enzyme\">Enzyme<\/a>, <a href=\"glycogen\">Glycogen<\/a>, Krebs cycle ((or tri-carboxylic acid, TCA, cycle), <a href=\"phosphate\">Phosphate<\/a>, <a href=\"polymerization\">Polymerization<\/a>, <a href=\"protein_tyrosine_kinase\">Protein tyrosine kinase<\/a>, <a href=\"proteins\">Proteins<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/body><\/html><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The addition of phosphate to an organic compound such as protein through the action of the enzyme phosphylase that triggers the glycogen molecule to form glucose. &nbsp;It can change the activity of protein and is probably the most common mechanism for altering the biological function of proteins in cells and thus for transferring energy between &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/phosphorylation\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Phosphorylation&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-8747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-glossary","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lancaster.ac.uk\/fas\/psych\/glossary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}