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PHOSPHATE

Pronunciation (US):

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 I. (noun) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

Carbonated drink with fruit syrup and a little phosphoric acid

Classified under:

Nouns denoting foods and drinks

Hypernyms ("phosphate" is a kind of...):

soft drink (nonalcoholic beverage (usually carbonated))

Sense 2

Meaning:

A salt of phosphoric acid

Synonyms:

inorganic phosphate; orthophosphate; phosphate

Classified under:

Nouns denoting substances

Hypernyms ("phosphate" is a kind of...):

salt (a compound formed by replacing hydrogen in an acid by a metal (or a radical that acts like a metal))

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "phosphate"):

calcium phosphate (a phosphate of calcium; a main constituent of animal bones)

sodium orthophosphate; sodium phosphate (phosphate of sodium; used as a laxative to cleanse the bowels)

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 Context examples: 

PIP3 activates the inositol phosphate dependent protein kinase PDK1, which activates AKT (protein kinase B).

(Beta-Catenin Accumulation Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Magnesium status is low in populations who consume processed foods that are high in refined grains, fat, phosphate, and sugar.

(Low Magnesium Levels Make Vitamin D Ineffective, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Phosphoserine hydrolase hydrolyzes the phosphate in 3-phosphoserine to produce serine.

(Biosynthesis of Glycine and Serine Pathway, NCI Thesaurus/BIOCARTA)

Type of substance that may be described as a linear sequence of nucleosides typically linked through phosphate esters.

(Nucleic Acids, NCI Thesaurus)

Phosphates may be used to treat a high level of calcium in the blood.

(Organic Phosphate, NCI Dictionary)

Another gene, CLE33, reduces colonization rates when there is plenty of phosphate available to the plant.

(Plant gene discovery could help reduce fertilizer pollution in waterways, National Science Foundation)

A group of cytosolic enzymes that specifically remove tyrosine-bound phosphate groups from many phosphoproteins, including many enzymes phosphorylated by a tyrosine kinase.

(Non-Receptor Type Protein Tyrosine Phosphatase, NCI Thesaurus)

LRRK2 is a kinase enzyme, a type of protein found in cells that tags molecules with chemicals called phosphate groups.

(Too much protein may kill brain cells as Parkinson’s progresses, NINDS)

While morpholinos have standard nucleic acid bases, those bases are bound to morpholine rings instead of deoxyribose rings and linked through phosphorodiamidate groups instead of phosphates.

(Morpholino, NCI Thesaurus)

Any substance that inhibits mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK), an enzyme that catalyzes the addition of a phosphate group to a protein in the cell proliferation signaling pathway in response to external stimuli.

(Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Inhibitor, NCI Thesaurus)