phosphotransferasen.
/ˌfɒsfə(ʊ)ˈtrɑːnsfəreɪz/, /ˌfɒsfə(ʊ)ˈtransfəreɪz/, /ˌfɒsfə(ʊ)ˈtrɑːnzfəreɪz/, /ˌfɒsfə(ʊ)ˈtranzfəreɪz/, U.S. /ˌfɑsfoʊˈtræn(t)sfəˌreɪz/, /ˌfɑsfoʊˈtræn(t)sfəˌreɪs/ Biochemistry.
Any of a group of enzymes which bring about the transfer of phosphate groups from one molecule to another.
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galactase1898
cellulase1901
nuclease1902
xanthine oxidase1905
exoenzyme1908
glucosidase1909
galactase1910
nucleosidase1911
nucleotidase1911
adenosine deaminase1913
cellobiase1919
hydratase1922
activase1928
hexokinase1930
histaminase1930
kallikrein1930
Michaelis constant1930
cholinesterase1932
phosphodiesterase1932
chymotrypsin1933
glycosidase1933
rhodanese1933
acetylcholinesterase1937
prolidase1937
diaphorase1938
aconitase1939
hyaluronidase1940
transaminase1940
hydrase1943
isomerase1943
lactoperoxidase1943
streptokinase1944
pectinesterase1945
pectinmethylesterase1945
phosphokinase1946
alliinase1947
CoA1947
phosphotransferase1948
polymerase1948
transferase1948
elastase1949
amyloglucosidase1950
transacetylase1950
transhydrogenase1952
hydroxylase1953
kinase1953
transketolase1953
synthase1954
hexosaminidase1955
translocase1957
angiotensinase1958
angiotensin converting enzyme1960
photoenzyme1960
acetyltransferase1961
adenyl cyclase1961
adenylate cyclase1962
replicase1962
ADA1963
transcriptase1963
adenylyl cyclase1964
recombinase1964
laminarinase1966
nickase1967
acrosin1970
reverse transcriptase1970
cellobiohydrolase1972
cyclooxygenase1974
laminaranase1974
primase1977
helicase1978
monodeiodinase1978
transposase1979
maturase1980
1948 B. Axelrod in Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 172 12 ‘Phosphotransferase’ has not been obtained free of acid phosphatase.
1976 Jrnl. Biol. Chem. 251 2330 A nucleoside phosphotransferase, which catalyzes the phosphorylation of nucleosides to nucleotides..has been isolated and purified 500-fold from the membrane fraction of Erwinia herbicola.
2002 Guardian 2 July i. 16/3 He also did research on..biosynthesis of phosphotransferases.
Compounds
phosphotransferase system n. a multienzyme system by which sugars are taken up into bacteria and phosphorylated in the process (abbreviated PTS).
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1964 Proc. National Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 52 1067 (title) Phosphate bound to histidine in a protein as an intermediate in a novel phospho-transferase system.
1982 Jrnl. Bacteriol. 149 123 The exchange is repressed in cells grown on glucose and other phosphotransferase system substrates.
2002 Res. in Microbiol. 153 405 Some bacteria lack sugar permeases of the bacterial phosphotransferase system (PTS) but encode within their genomes phosphoryl transfer proteins of the PTS that probably function in regulation.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, March 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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