Word.ws English Dictionary

phosphorilation

phosphorilation is the misspelling of phosphorylation.

Meaning of phosphorylation

Noun

phosphorylation (countable and uncountable, plural phosphorylations)

  1. the process of transferring a phosphate group from a donor to an acceptor; often catalysed by enzymes.
    • Src worked by unleashing an indiscriminate volley of phosphorylation—throwing “on” dozens of molecular switches.2010, Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Emperor of All Maladies, Fourth Estate (2011), page 359

Questions about phosphorilation

What is phosphorilation the misspelling of?
Phosphorilation is the misspelling of phosphorylation.

Words near phosphorilation in the dictionary

  1. phosphoribulokinases
  2. phosphoric
  3. phosphoric acid
  4. phosphorical
  5. phosphoriferous
  6. phosphorilation
  7. phosphorimage
  8. phosphorimager
  9. phosphorimagers
  10. phosphorimagery
  11. phosphorimages

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: phosphorilation (page history and authors); phosphorylation (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “phosphorilation.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/phosphorilation. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.