Answer to Question #276097 in Cell Biology for Hutchii

Question

What is phosphorylation? When does phosphorylation happen in the energy investment stage of glycolysis?

Answer 1

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It is the transferring of phosphate molecules to a protein. In a living being, this transfer prepares proteins for specific activities.

It happens during the /The process happens in the first stage know as hexokinase where there is adding of a phosphate group to a molecule derived from ATP.