to remove a phosphate group from (an organic compound)
dephosphorylate in American English
(diˈfɑsfərəˌleit)
intransitive verbWord forms: -ated, -ating
Biochemistry
to undergo dephosphorylation
Word origin
[de- + phosphorylate]de- is a prefix occurring in loanwords from Latin (decide); also used to indicate privation, removal, and separation (dehumidify), negation (demerit; derange), descent (degrade; deduce), reversal (detract), or intensity (decompound)
Examples of 'dephosphorylate' in a sentence
dephosphorylate
Strikingly, these variants were still able to dephosphorylate phosphopeptides, although with strongly reduced activity.
Jiyong Su, Karl Forchhammer 2012, 'The Role of Arg13 in Protein Phosphatase M tPphA from Thermosynechococcus elongatus',Enzyme Researchhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/272706. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)
They dephosphorylate the insulin receptor and insulin receptor substrate proteins, resulting in hypothalamic insulin resistance.
Hiraku Ono 2019, 'Molecular Mechanisms of Hypothalamic Insulin Resistance', International Journal of Molecular Scienceshttp://www.mdpi.com/1422-0067/20/6/1317. Retrieved from DOAJ CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode)