Phosphorylation cascade

Phosphorylation cascade

A phosphorylation cascade is a sequence of events where one enzyme phosphorylates another, causing a chain reaction leading to the phosphorylation of thousands of proteins.

This can be seen in signal transduction of hormone messages.

References

*cite book |author=Freeman, Scott "et al." |title="Index I" Biological Science Vol. 2 |publisher=Pearson Education, Inc. |year=2005


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